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panic error at boot, not sure which part is error
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<blockquote data-quote="digity" data-source="post: 1777234" data-attributes="member: 396863"><p>Friend's Mac (MacBook Pro Core i5 mid-2012) suddenly gets a panic error after successfully entering their password at the login screen. Frantic that they're going to lose their important documents, I put the computer in target disk mode and copied their user folder. While their hard drive was mounted I noticed the root folders Applications, Library, System and private were located inside the root folder, Recovered Items. I figured that was the culprit (they/someone accidentally moved those folders inside Recovered Items), so I moved those 4 folders back to root (I actually copied private back to root as moving it threw too many errors). Now when the Mac in question boots, it throws a panic error during loading bar screen - it doesn't even get to the user selection screen anymore. It appears I mad it worst (screenshot attached)... how do I get this Mac booting successfully again?</p><p></p><p>P.S. - Unfortunately, I don't know the version of macOS/OSX that's on here - my friend doesn't know either.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]27421[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="digity, post: 1777234, member: 396863"] Friend's Mac (MacBook Pro Core i5 mid-2012) suddenly gets a panic error after successfully entering their password at the login screen. Frantic that they're going to lose their important documents, I put the computer in target disk mode and copied their user folder. While their hard drive was mounted I noticed the root folders Applications, Library, System and private were located inside the root folder, Recovered Items. I figured that was the culprit (they/someone accidentally moved those folders inside Recovered Items), so I moved those 4 folders back to root (I actually copied private back to root as moving it threw too many errors). Now when the Mac in question boots, it throws a panic error during loading bar screen - it doesn't even get to the user selection screen anymore. It appears I mad it worst (screenshot attached)... how do I get this Mac booting successfully again? P.S. - Unfortunately, I don't know the version of macOS/OSX that's on here - my friend doesn't know either. [ATTACH=FULL]27421[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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