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pigoo3

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2017 15" MBP, 16gig ram, 1TB SSD, OS 10.15
What Mac-mini model do you have...and what OS version is it running?

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Silver M1 iMac 512/16/8/8 macOS 11.6
Of course you do have an external backup?
 
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I am sorry folks, I forgot to put more info out,pigoo3, it is real old mini mac 10.4,with safari, but i like it,to ferrarr,sadly i did not set up time machine and harry i have no external backup, as you folks can tell, i am not that computer savvy, i am a senior,and trying to learn this on my own. Thanks to all
 

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15" MBP '06 2.33 C2D 4GB 10.7; 13" MBA '14 1.8 i7 8GB 10.11; 21" iMac '13 2.9 i5 8GB 10.11; 6S
OS X has no Registry and no need of the type of recovery needed by Windows.

However, if you're running 10.7 or later:

You can boot to the Recovery partition and achieve the same results as the 'Startup Repair' and 'System Restore' functions by re-installing OS X over the top of your existing install without losing your data. These havn't really been needed in Windows near as much the last couple of versions and it's even rarer you'll need to do it with OS X.

Unless you're playing around in areas of the drive you shouldn't or using one of the cleaning apps that are typically recommended you not install around here.

You also have Time Machine available for use for backing up your entire drive.

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