Safe mode MacBook Pro taking a long time to load. Can’t type password to log in. Any suggestions?

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Safe mode MacBook Pro taking a long time to load. Can’t type password to log in. Any suggestions?

Can’t type my password to login. Now trying to go into safe mode but it’s taking forever to load. Any suggestions?

MacBook Pro 13”, macOS 10.13

Posted on Oct 2, 2020 5:47 PM

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John Galt

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Oct 2, 2020 5:50 PM in response to BALUVIA

"Safe Mode" performs some cursory startup disk diagnostics, and if necessary, repairs. If it's taking a very long time, it's an indication that startup disk has suffered some degree of corruption.

Let it finish. It might take a long time. If and when it eventually finishes, be sure your Time Machine backup is up to date.

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John Galt

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Oct 3, 2020 12:54 PM in response to BALUVIA

It's difficult to diagnose an inoperative keyboard without the ability to substitute another one known to work. You can use any USB keyboard.

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BALUVIA Author

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Oct 2, 2020 6:25 PM in response to John Galt

Thank you so much for this response. It looks like it has finished loading but it’s just hanging there now with the Apple logo and the filled-in “bar” beneath it. Should I still leave it alone or try to start again?

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Oct 3, 2020 7:18 AM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

Another family member who knows about Macs Thanks the reason I can’t type info in login fields Is that keyboard is not working. I also have only approximately 700 MB space left. This all started happening after installing Google Chrome. Any thoughts are deeply appreciated

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Oct 3, 2020 7:19 AM in response to BALUVIA

Another family member who knows about Macs thinks the reason I can’t type info in login fields Is that keyboard is not working. I also have only approximately 700 MB space left. This all started happening after installing Google Chrome. Any thoughts are deeply appreciated

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BALUVIA Author

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Oct 3, 2020 7:20 AM in response to John Galt

Another family member who knows about Macs Thanks the reason I can’t type info in login fields Is that keyboard is not working. I also have only approximately 700 MB space left. This all started happening after installing Google Chrome. Any further thoughts are deeply appreciated. Grateful

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Answer 7

Oct 2, 2020 6:33 PM in response to BALUVIA

If you have a rotating magnetic drive, that symptoms supports the idea that John Galt suggested -- that your drive may have some Bad Blocks.

The worst case for one Bad Block (if it comes clean on the 999th re-try), is that it adds about a quarter minute for each Bad Block.

When a drive goes bad, a common way for it to go bad is to have the number of Bad Blocks suddenly get very large.

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Safe mode MacBook Pro taking a long time to load. Can’t type password to log in. Any suggestions?

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