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• 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 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

• How to fix the folder flashing with question mark on mac pro

  I have a problem with my mac pro.  When I press the power on button, the grey of the screen become a folder flashing with question mark appears and it does not start.  What should I do?  I don't have an os x on a cd so I can not ignore the system...

  See:

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

  What model Mac? What OSX version was on the Mac?

  If you do not have a partition recovery or restoration of the Internet

  On OS X Recovery - Apple Support

  Then you install an installation DVD

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

  

• 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

  List of devices:

  devalias

  List of variables:

  printenv

• Safari with question marks instead of the text

  Several Web sites in Safari 9.1 showing many points of question marks instead of the text. I just proposed by Apple and done nothing. I have Imac (late 2009) OS X El Capitan 10.11.4.

  Question marks instead of the text is an indication of a problem with fonts.

  Open the book fonts in your Applications folder.

  In the fonts start menu bar click book fonts > Preferences and then click: resolve duplicates by moving the files to the trash

  Quit and then restart Safari to test.

  If this does not help, back to the font book menu bar click file > restore to the Unicode Standard

  Quit and then restart Safari to test.

• MacBook Pro question mark flashing, no wifi, only own internet connection

  I have a flashing question mark on start up with my MacBook Pro. Through the process of restarting, but it asks me to choose a wifi network. I did not, as my computer has its own internet connection, so can not continue to the next step. Help please?

  If you are connected to internet through being directly connected to a modem via ethernet. You should be able to ignore the WIFI configuration prompt. Have you used the option of disk utility to check the repair or erase the disc? The withdrawal volume. You can also try using command/Option/R for recovery to see if you can use ethernet. I did once and trying to remember how I did it.

• Gray boxes with question marks

  When I find some PDF files, a grey box with a red question mark inside appears. I can't move, modify or delete these boxes. I searched on the web and most of the responses indicated that these boxes indicate corrupted images, but my documents have no images. Mine appear at the beginning and end of text blocks. They do not appear in the thumbnail view. I am running Acrobat Professional, version 8.1.

  What are these boxes and how do I get rid of them?

  A screenshot of what I see is attached.

  Robert

  

  A little more information, to ensure the excellent diagnostic monitoring.

  When Acrobat opens a PDF file and it finds the annotations of an unknown type it shows these boxes. How have to disappear (or anything else) is to install a plug-in of specific designed to show them.

  Older versions of Acrobat just show nothing at all.

  Acrobat 5 would show nothing.

  Acrobat 7 would show the boxes.

• When I use the Google search bar result is a page of random letters with question marks. Why? All other search engines are OK.

  The question didn't need to be expanded really.

  The screen I see is full of Black diamonds with points mark with numbers and random letters.

  First of all, try resetting Firefox. Refresh Firefox – reset settings and Add-ons. This simple step will eliminate the many problems in Firefox with just one click.

  A few other basic problems you can try things is the following:
  Run all Windows updates, install all required service packs, etc.

  Updating your graphics driver (Firefox uses the graphics card for rendering and an outdated graphics card driver can cause problems. Update your graphics drivers to use hardware acceleration and WebGL

  Update all of your plugins (Flash, Java, etc.): http://www.mozilla.org/plugincheck/.

  Download and install MalwareBytes Anti-Malware, run a full scan. http://www.malwarebytes.org/. This check allows that there is no virus on your computer, causing problems. You can uninstall this program after having cleaned the infections.

• Web sites only loaded with question marks.

  Some websites is charged only with the question marks, after that I updated to Firefox 4.0.1. I have attached a screenshot in the link below.

  http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/2462/wmarks.PNG

  Try to create a new profile. See profiles of boards - where Firefox stores your bookmarks, passwords and other data from the user and use the Profile Manager to create and delete profiles Firefox

• 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.