Updating your Computer
1.You get the request to install to do updates
2. You close all applications, plug into power and accept the updates.
3. The updates that can occur at this time download (are not dependent on this update being done).
4. It asks you to restart
5. When you restart it actually installs the updates
6. When it is done installing them, it asks you to login.
7. When you log in that means that update is complete
8. It then looks to see if you need another update and if you do it will ask you again.
9. You go through this process until all the updates are complete
The important things are:
1. plug into power and close all applications
2. re-start when it asks
3. don't unplug or close your laptop cover until it asks for login and you have logged in.
2. You close all applications, plug into power and accept the updates.
3. The updates that can occur at this time download (are not dependent on this update being done).
4. It asks you to restart
5. When you restart it actually installs the updates
6. When it is done installing them, it asks you to login.
7. When you log in that means that update is complete
8. It then looks to see if you need another update and if you do it will ask you again.
9. You go through this process until all the updates are complete
The important things are:
1. plug into power and close all applications
2. re-start when it asks
3. don't unplug or close your laptop cover until it asks for login and you have logged in.
Startup Disk Full
To prevent this you should check and monitor your computer storage weekly. Steps to check disk space: Go to the apple icon on your computer and click on “About this Mac”. Then select “storage” (you should never get below 10Gb) See image to right If storage is 10GB or below backup and then delete your files. To delete files, drag to the trash. Empty trash. Another way to monitor your storage use is to turn on View in Finder. to do this go to finder then click on view at the top and go down to show status bar. |
Resetting the SMC
Before Resetting the SMC
Reset the SMC only after you've tried all other standard troubleshooting. Try each of the following steps in this order before you reset the SMC. Test the issue after completing each troubleshooting step to see if the issue still occurs.
- Press Command-Option-Escape to force quit any application that is not responding.
- Put your Mac to sleep by choosing Sleep from the Apple menu. Wake the computer after it has gone to sleep.
- Restart your Mac by choosing Restart from the Apple menu.
- Shut down your Mac by choosing Shut Down from the Apple menu.
- If your Mac isn't responding, force the Mac to shut down by pressing and holding the power button for 10 seconds. You'll lose any unsaved work in any open applications.
- Unplug the power adapter from your Mac and the electrical outlet for several seconds, then plug it back in.
- Shut down your Mac.
- Remove and re-insert the battery, if it's removable battery.
- Restart your Mac.
Indicators that your SMC might need to be resetAfter you perform normal troubleshooting, these symptoms may indicate that an SMC reset could be necessary:
- The computer fans run at high speed, though the computer is not experiencing heavy usage and is properly ventilated.
- The keyboard backlight behaves incorrectly on Mac computers that have this feature.
- The status indicator light (SIL) behaves incorrectly on Mac computers that have this feature.
- Battery indicator lights, if present, behave incorrectly on Mac notebooks that have a non-removable battery.
- The display backlight doesn't respond correctly to ambient light changes on Mac computers that have this feature.
- The computer doesn't respond to the power button when pressed.
- A Mac notebook computer doesn't respond properly when you close or open the lid.
- The computer sleeps or shuts down unexpectedly.
- The battery doesn't charge properly.
- The MagSafe power adapter LED doesn't indicate the correct activity.
- The computer is performing unusually slowly, though it isn't experiencing abnormally high CPU utilization.
- Application icons may bounce in the Dock for an extended amount of time when opened.
- Applications may not function correctly, or they may stop responding after being opened.
- A computer that supports target display mode does not switch into or out of target display mode as expected, or it switches into or out of target display mode at unexpected times.
- The illumination around the I/O ports on a Mac Pro (Late 2013) does not activate when you move the computer.
Reset the SMC on Mac notebook computers
- Shut down the Mac.
- Plug in the MagSafe or USB-C power adapter to a power source and to your Mac.
- Using the built-in keyboard, press Shift-Control-Option on the left side of the keyboard, then press the power button at the same time.
- Release all keys, then press the power button again to turn on your Mac