MacBook 2012 folder question mark at startup

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• Mac mini (late 2012) flashing - question mark folder recovery does not work

  Hi all

  earlier today, I upgraded my Mac mini (end 2012) to the latest version of macOS Sierra.

  After 1 hour of use, I realized that many of my plugins FCPX were not working.

  I contacted the developers, and they said does not update the plugins and they told me to go back to El Capitan.

  I decided to listen to them and try to downgrade my OS.

  I restarted the Mac and held down Cmd - R or something like that that took me to the disk utility screen.

  Then I went down to dinner, and when I returned 30 minutes later my Mac had entered the sleep mode for some reason any.

  I woke up the Mac and 40 seconds later the power went out for 5-10 minutes.

  After the blackout, I restarted my Mac that took me to a black screen with a flashing question mark folder.

  I followed some tutorials online (including how to enter get - and the recovery of internet mode), but after a while even restoration of the internet shows me the flashing question mark folder.

  I don't know what to do.

  And no - unfortunately I don't have a Time Machine backup.

  But I have a backup with all my most important files.

  Is it possible to force the Mac to reset itself or something like that?

  Help, please.

  Best regards

  Filip

  Mac mini (late 2012)

  I7

  16 GB OF RAM

  500 GB Samsung SSD of 840 - evo

  Graphics Intel HD 4000

  What happens exactly when you start Internet recovery

  by pressing Command + Option + R at the start of the OS X Internet Recovery*.

  and go to disk utility and repair the startup disk?

  If repairable, the startup disk to format and install OSX via recovery. you install Mountain Lion or dependent Mavericks when the Mac was made. Then OSX you want.

• 2008 mac book pro screen flashing folder with question mark at startup

  2008 mac book pro screen flashing folder with question mark replaced boot hard drive and cable, continues to do the same.  any ideas to fix?

  Start your Mac by holding down the button Option. The should launch the window of Boot Manager where you can select the startup disk, and then click on restart.

  How to choose a boot on your Mac - Apple Support drive

• Need help with flashing file + question mark at startup

  My Macbook Pro has worked fine until yesterday. On startup, I get the flashing file, so I rebooted and held command + R. Once I have try disc recovery/upgrade to update OS/restoration I need a startup disk file to choose and everything is empty. How can I get the possibility of a boot disk? Do I need a physical disk? I just checked my box of the laptop and I don't have a physical disc.

  Thank you.

  If a flashing question mark appears when you start your Mac - Apple Support

  Which shows in disk utility that is located in the recovery?

  Cutting in-house of may have failed or yo have a problem with the internal connection.

  What model of MacBook Pro?

  This is the Office Mac Pro forum. I asked that your post moved to the forum of laptop MacBook Pro or another appropriate forum.

• MacBook Pro with question mark inside a folder after fix

  So I have Macbook Pro 2012 13 "with a 500GB SSD and 8 GB of ram. In may, my computer would not boot into the operating system without previous indications of possible failure. It would display an exclamation mark inside a folder at startup (later, I thought means that the hard drive is a problem). I took it to Apple-authorized repair Tech on my campus and they were unable to understand the source of the problem, but said it was possible that my OS has been corrupted. After some searching myself, I started to think it was the TRIM bug which has been a known issue with Samsung. Samsung has gladly replaced my hard drive. I have connected the new hard drive and I fell again on the same issue. I started to consider the water of the hard drive has been the question... So I replaced that and was able to start again! Fast forward to today, several months later, and I have the same problem. However, now I can start in the OS sometimes while sometimes it will show the flashing icon. If the hard drive ribbon cable I bought was of bad quality, or that would indicate a bigger, more serious problem? I'm confused as to how to proceed to solve this problem. Any help is greatly appreciated!

  Yes, I suspect a problem with the new ribbon cable or its connection to the logic board.

  This is the Office Mac Pro forum. I asked that your post be moved to the MacBook Pro laptop forum.

• After update Macbook, I had a folder with question mark on it

  I was forced to upgrade my macbook, and then I saw a folder with question mark in this regard.

  Start your Mac by holding down the button Option. Who should start the Boot Manager window where you can select the startup disk, and then click Restart.

  Startup Manager: how to select a boot volume

• Flashing question mark in the Macbook Pro Retina early 2015 at startup problem

  I have the 128 GB of Macbook Pro retina early 2015 model. I bought my macbook, the year last January 2015. I am just now having problem with my mac. When I'm trying to boot my laptop it shows the flashing question mark and it does not start after that. For a while it worked, but after the update the laptop is never again.

  After reading all the articles related to this issue and even after trying it the entire process for the departure of mac. I'm not able to start.

  I tried all the normal recovery process in the process of recovery of the internet, but still it does not work for me. When I select the disk utility in the dialog box, the drive does not appear here, so I can't erase and start to reinstall the operating system.

  What should I do now? I was looking for OEM SSD, but it's very expensive. with this prize money of (here in INDIA RS - 50 k) I can get the Macbook Air.

  If please guide me on how to start the mac or what do I do next?

  Thank you.

  Frank Bsu

  We have no way of knowing exactly what you have tried that doesn't work unless you tell us. A flashing question mark boot means that your Mac is unable to locate a startup disk to boot from.

  If you haven't tried... start your Mac holding the key Option. That should launch the boot window manager have been, you can select the startup disk, and then click on restart.

  If this does not help, you will need to take the Mac for the service.

  If a flashing question mark appears when you start your Mac - Apple Support

• Just in case my MacBook pro is off. When I turn on the screen becomes black and a folder with a question mark symbol starts to Flash. ¿Anyone know what to do?

  My MacBook pro retina just turned off. whenever I try to turn it back on, a black screen with a folder symbol and a question mark starts blinking. Can anyone help please?

  The? a mark indicating that it cannot find your hard drive. Sounds like your hard drive is dying/dead. You have a recent backup?

• Flashing symbols on startup: apple logo, circle with slash, folder with question mark

  I tried to delete personal files on my MacBook (late 2008) to trade. During this process, the computer lost some function when deleting some documents; would not open apps but app could bounce constantly once selected and would not restart or shut down, had to manually hold the power button to turn off.

  When I turned it back after a few minutes a blue splash screen came as normal then symbol of Apple but then started blinking circle with slash to Apple to the circle and then to the folder with question mark. This continued for more than 45 minutes + and whenever I try to turn it off and restart it manually.

  I tried the following:

  -Trying to access the disk now command + R to start utility

  -Unplug the charger and take out the battery and put back in

  -holding SHIFT while symbols are flashing

  I can't check what OS I currently use but care I have the computer are as follows:

  -Computer is late 2008 model MacBook 13 inch

  -Model: A 1278 (EMC 2254)

  -Storage: 160 GB

  -RAM: 4 GB

  -Processor: Core 2 Duo 2.0 13

  Looking for help solving this problem. Thanks in advance.

  It would be very helpful to know what version of Mac OS X you are running

  On the screens, you see when you start your Mac - Apple Support

• MacBook Pro will not initialize. Question Mark flashing folder

  -Macbook Pro 13 "Unibody model 2009

  Hi guys,.

  I have been a frequent visitor to the community of support here, but I'm a poster for the first time, so please forgive any lack of post I suffer from the label. I saw this problem here much and seem me to always see the same advice to fix, but I have never seen anyone who treat the same symptoms I had with my camera.

  My question all started when I tried to save something for the reader, and he said to me "you are not allowed to save this destination" (something to that effect). Then it progressed to a question on my Macbook to spontaneous freezing. It would freeze just constantly and I always have to force offshore. When I would try to start the machine up, it's always 50-50 chance that it should start successfully, often welcomed by the famous question mark flashing folder. I constantly by visiting an Apple store for the last year and a half on this topic and after countless visits, they insist that there is no problem that they can find. They always say down to "permission error", problems of BONE that have been resolved by resettlement and a faulty hard drive. I've dealt with them during this period and and still have this machine properly repaired on any occasion. The problem persists always just after I take the machine home and start right away, its still there.

  As time went on this issue, I noticed that the machine would often freezing when moved, for example moved a table at my knees etc. This has some time until that I have raised to clean the table under one day and then tried to do turn on and nothing. The machine refused to start, only to give me the question mark flashing folder. I tried to boot into recovery mode by using CMD - R and tried to reinstall the OSX, I read that it is a common solution, but whenever I start recovery mode "Macintosh HD" is not where. So I can't even try a reinstall of OSX.

  A man IT in my former work place had examined this issue before on another machine, and he said he had replaced the cable of HDD of the machines as the previous was damaged. When toggled, he said that the machine was working fine. It would be logical, as if the cable is already damaged and loose, I'm sure that the movement might just disconnect. I raise this issue because it is of NEVER once offered all the time, I in dealing with this issue and on further investigation in the apple forums and this seems to be a very common problem.

  

  This appeared on a boot up once and never since.

  

  And that's what I see at every boot up to now.

  I'm sorry to bombard all the world with so much information on this subject, but my frustration is quickly turning into madness on this issue, which have no one at Apple after countless visits being able to fix the problem. As it is the main culprit for me, the HARD disk cable, but I would not assume know better that some of you have known many more people.

  Any information or help that guys could pass my way would be greatly appreciated I was apparently no help from Apple repair personnel. If you have read and thought about all this I applaud you and owe you a drink at the mercy.

  James

  MacBook Pro

  Hi Yogi Wynne:

  I agree with your friend IT. Looks like the SATA hard drive cable has problems.

  The inside of your computer is not as smooth on the outside and rubs it hard against the SATA cable and can cause one of the traces in the short cable is causing hard drive problems.

  Here's where you can get a replacement cable, they are very fragile. https://www.iFixit.com/store/Mac/MacBook-Pro-13-inch-unibody-mid-2009-mid-2010-H ard-car-Cable/IF163-013-1

  Here's a video that shows what could happen. https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=Amg5w0rlwDo

  I might change the SATA cable and see if the problem persists.

• Start with blinking question mark folder

  Hey guys, English is not my mother tongue and so I must apologize for my bad English, everything first.

  Okay so here is my question:

  I had a folder of flashing question mark when I rebooted my macbook pro retina (13.3 "end 2015, OS X 10.11.4 beta 6) last week.

  So I get in recovery HD to see if if I can do a clean to fix install, but I can't find my disk to reinstall OS X, he showed is nothing.

  Then I restart my mac again and again, sometimes I can boot normally.

  But I can't found anything wrong, he just worked as usual, until what I restarted again, dead again.

  I took it to the authorized service provider Apple to fix my mac. Yes, there is no official bar of the Apple Store and genius in my country.

  They thought that my drive was dead, so they substitute a new drive for my, it took me a week to get my mac.

  It seemed to work perfectly, so I restore my data by Time machine and upgrade to 10.11.4 beta 7.

  Yesterday the 10.11.4 came out, so I updated my mac to this version.

  But when it is restarted during installation, it showed the issue of question mark again.

  After a few attempt to reboot, it finished installing. then I tried to reboot to see if it's good or not.

  Unfortunately, it came with this folder again. So I turn it off.

  After half an hour, I tried to start it again, it starts.

  Everything seemed normal, I checked the S.M.A.R.T by DriveDx and the data were all good.

  I fix the permission by DiskWarrior and it says no need to repair.

  But I always get the record of question mark with 1/10 chance when it start.

  I don't know what happened to my mac, is there anyone has a suggestion?

  Thank you

  A,

  Is correctly selected in system preferences Startup disk > startup disk?

  Apologies is not required, your ability to speak English is commendable.

  

• I get a folder with a question mark symbol when I turn on

  I'm giving my daughter my MacBook Pro retina (2013) so I'll try to get it to the factory settings.  I tried reloading ElCapitan and downloaded for half an hour and then says that the download failed.  This happened twice, and now all I get is a folder with a question mark symbol.  What should I do?

  Hey! Take a look at these articles Support from Apple and try basic troubleshooting steps.

  If a flashing question mark appears when you start your Mac - Apple Support

  On the screens, you see when you start your Mac - Apple Support

• I recently dropped my laptop and it is weird, one day he int open up to 4 start times and sometimes it shows me a folder and a question mark in the interface and sometimes asked to reset my password, what are the steps to take?

  I recently dropped my laptop and it is weird, one day he int open up to 4 start times and sometimes it shows me a folder and a question mark in the interface and sometimes asked to reset my password, what are the steps to take?

  Anything can be corrupted on your MacBook Pro, but from what you say, it seems that the cable drive/SSD/flash memory/SATA hard was seriously damaged. Him "question mark" means that your Mac is unable to find any bootable device, meaning that it does not yet detect your OS X drive.

  You should make a backup of your files (if you can still do it) and take the Mac at the Apple Store or dealer to get a diagnosis. There may be several damaged parts.

• image folder of the file with question mark flashing on the screen

  I just bought a 2 month old 15 "macbook pro to an individual. I turned it on this morning and there is a picture of a small folder with a question mark in the Center, flashing on and outside. does anyone have a solution for this?

  Hi Hotrod45:

  Was this before start or is this the first time you the active since buying it?

  Check out this technical note. If flashing question mark appears when you start your Mac - Apple Support

  Kim

• iMac G3 tray charger stuck on the gray screen with question mark flashing folder

  I recently bought an iMac G3 (charger tray, 333 MHz, M4984) and when I try to boot from an OS installation disc 10.3, there will remain only blocked on the gray screen with folder flashing with the question mark. Not only it does not maintain the keys C or Option, but it will not start up any combination of keys, such as resetting the PRAM or the NVRAM. It just starts and stays on the screen with the flashing folder does nothing. It CAN read the keyboard, because I can turn on the computer with the keyboard, it just won't start to the top of any disk or any combination of keys. Any ideas on what could be the problem? I just replaced the hard drive, but it was the same before I replaced the hard drive as well. In addition, the iMac had apparently OS 8.6 installed on it when it came, and I think I need to move to OS 9 and do a firmware update before you install OS X (correct me if I'm wrong), but I can not do because the iMac does start not in general of any combination of keys. Thanks in advance, any help is appreciated.

  I recently bought an iMac G3 (charger tray, 333 MHz, M4984) and when I try to boot from an OS installation disc 10.3, there will remain only blocked on the gray screen with folder flashing with the question mark.

  Valid operation system not found.

  Not only it primer not leave now pressed the C or

  Place the cd in the drive.  power off.  Hold c power key on & while in the startup is underway.
  

  Keys options,

  key option is not supported on tray loading imac g3 333

  In addition, the iMac had apparently OS 8.6 installed on it when it came, and I think I need to move to OS 9 and do a firmware update before you install OS X (correct me if I'm wrong), but I can not do because the iMac does start not in general of any combination of keys. Thanks in advance, any help is appreciated.

  It took charger slot, but I think that optional for the bin.  I think that you can upgrade the firmware with 8.6 for trays.

  You may need to reset the PRAM and NVRAM and Mac's Open Firmware. Stop the Mac, then it turns on and before the screen lights up, quickly down the command, Option, P, and R keys, until the Mac rang twice more after the power to chime.

  Then, before that lights up the screen, hold down the command-Option-O-F until the Open Firmware appears. Then enter these lines, and then press return after each of them:

  Reset-nvram

  Configure default

  Reset-all

  "The reset-all command should restart your Mac. If so, you have successfully reset the Open Firmware settings. »

  http://support.Apple.com/kb/TS1812?viewlocale=en_US

  In the case of the...

  Try taking the battery for 10 minutes.  Put back in the battery.  Fingers crossed. Turn the machine back on.

  How do I eject the cd from the internal drive:

  eject the cd

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