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Hello, I made this post long ago Is my 2015 MacOS dying or what? where my Mac was playing up. Eventually I got into safe mode, upgraded to BigSur and my problems were mostly gone.
Fast forward to now and I’m having issues again. It froze today and I shut it down and turned it back on. After loading for eternity, it restarted on its own and gave the message “Your Mac restarted because of a problem.”
And now my Mac won’t start up properly. Logo comes up, then the bar gets a quarter of the way through and nothing.
I have no idea how to do safe mode (shift button does nothing). I had to shut down 10+ times trying to figure it out and went into recovery mode instead and tried using first aid.
At the moment, it’s going through the process slowly but I’m seeing these weird errors “nchildren does not match drec count” and warnings “found orphan dstream Id object”, every time it checks the snapshot. I have no idea what any of this means. What does it mean exactly? I’ve been looking it up but I’m honestly not understanding a lot of it.
I’m worried this isn’t going to solve my issue at all and I won’t be able to start up my drive. Is it worth getting an external hard drive and backing up? Is that even possible in recovery mode? Is it worth getting a new Mac? This one is just causing me nothing but problems and I need it for a lot of my work!
Fast forward to now and I’m having issues again. It froze today and I shut it down and turned it back on. After loading for eternity, it restarted on its own and gave the message “Your Mac restarted because of a problem.”
And now my Mac won’t start up properly. Logo comes up, then the bar gets a quarter of the way through and nothing.
I have no idea how to do safe mode (shift button does nothing). I had to shut down 10+ times trying to figure it out and went into recovery mode instead and tried using first aid.
At the moment, it’s going through the process slowly but I’m seeing these weird errors “nchildren does not match drec count” and warnings “found orphan dstream Id object”, every time it checks the snapshot. I have no idea what any of this means. What does it mean exactly? I’ve been looking it up but I’m honestly not understanding a lot of it.
I’m worried this isn’t going to solve my issue at all and I won’t be able to start up my drive. Is it worth getting an external hard drive and backing up? Is that even possible in recovery mode? Is it worth getting a new Mac? This one is just causing me nothing but problems and I need it for a lot of my work!