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Adobe Flash Player (General install error) sucks! Mach_Kernal missing?

Never had a problem updating Adobe Flash Player over the last maybe 10 times, It downloads to 50% and then bottoms out with a (general install error) message. So the I uninstalled and tried to re-install to no avail.


I don't know if I updated since updating to 10.8.5 but I read that the (Mach_Kernal) was found on people's (Documents) folder and some people deleted this but I don't remember if I ever got this when I updated. This was a blunder when updating to 10.8.5 and Apple was aware of it.


If that file isn't there is will cause Adobe Flash Player to fail.


I tried several Sudo commmands in Terminal to find the invisible (Mach_Kernel) file but when I type that in it just comes up with a message (No such thing found) Then I tried another Sudo command which would install it if it was missing and it comes up with the same thing (no such file or directory found).


Anyone know where this file resides and what folder it's in and can direct me exactly how to get to it to find out if it's still on my machine? As I said the Sudo commands came up with no results.



Thanks for your responses!

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)

Posted on Nov 23, 2013 2:29 PM

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Dec 11, 2013 8:50 PM in response to andyBall_uk

Ok Thanks I figured it out. I went on the guest account without the password. That would be sufficient enough to test right. If so iPhoto crashed again on the guest account. I didn't create a new account or set any password just went on guest tried it out and it crashed.


Tonight I updated Flash Player went through beautiful but my iPhoto still crashed on that guest account. Where's that Mach_Kernel supposed to be hidden when you click your hardrive Macintosh SSD above network and see right across from


MACHINTOSH SSD: Applications

Library

Mach_Kernel

private

system

users ???????????????


My understanding was people who deleted the Mach_Kernel found it in their documents folder not when they clicked on their hard dirve or SSD. I have Samsung SSD so mine also has Macintosh SSD then those things you see at the column their appear along with the Mach_Kernel. When you click on Mach_Kernal what opens up to the right of that is a piece of paper saying Mach_Kernel and says document under the image of the piece of paper resembling the Mach_Kernel but again the people that said they deleted it acutally found it in their documents folder. I don't have anything in my documents folder in finder but it just shows when Macintosh SSD is click that it's a document not meaning it's in my documents folder. Are you sure this is the correct place where this isn't suppose to show up and not the (documents folder in Finder) ? Sorry I typed this in straight but it didn't format right when I pressed reply. Macintosh SSD is right along side applications and applications is right above library and it goes down the list. I'ts just that the reply didn't format the way I typed it in.


But anyways now Adobe's going good and iPhoto is failing. 🙂

Dec 12, 2013 4:39 AM in response to abombaci

>> My understanding was people who deleted the Mach_Kernel found it in their documents folder not when they clicked on their hard dirve or SSD


I've read that here too, but I have to think that they were mistaken, or had moved the file themselves after noticing it. The problem that Apple's update caused did not move the file, but simply left it visible.


The following links maymake it easier for you to explain what you're seeing or asking about... you click the camera icon above the text area here to add an image you've saved.

OS X Mountain Lion: Shortcuts for taking pictures of the screen

https://support.apple.com/kb/PH11229OS X: Taking pictures of your screen


Having said that, it seems that your files are in the right places, just that one is visible which shouldn't be.


Regarding iPhoto crashing - open /Applications/Utilities/ColorSync Utility & click 'Profile First Aid'


User uploaded file


then click 'verify' & if any errors are shown, copy the text here.

Dec 12, 2013 7:11 PM in response to andyBall_uk

earching for profiles...

Checking 17 profiles...

Repair done - no problems found.


Had I known Apple computers cause me so many problems I feel like tossing this thing in the trash right now and going back to Windows.


Last night I tried something else. I turned iCloud on and off and when I turned it back on it says I have no longer have a recovery partition and that Find My Mac can't be used and isn't checked and greyed out. Everytime now I tried to boot to the OSX utilities box at boot up pressing command + R it doesn't have any local recovery box with the utilities in it so it boots right to (internet recovery) with the globe from Apple's servers for me to have to bring that box up and when it does it takes about 7 hours to bring that box up and then it will only install Lion because that's what I had when I bought this junk. It won't install Mountain Lion and when I had a fresh copy of Lion installed I went to app store previous purchases to update back to Mountain Lion and the update button woudn't do anything and my Garage Band button woudn't do anything so I had to reinstall Mountain Lion from a Time Machine backup to get it back. So now even if I have to repair my disk with disk utility I have to go through that same (internet recovery) crap again and wait all that time to bring the OSX utilities box back because the local one isn't there. Now I know why. I lost my local recovery partition from what message told me last night about not being able to use Find My Mac any longer. Now I know I have no recovery partition. Ain't that great. I really love this crap!

Dec 18, 2013 1:12 PM in response to andyBall_uk

Hi Andy how are you doing. Instead of going to internet recovery and ending up with Lion again since my computer originally had that this time I went to past purchases in the Mac store and downloaded Mountain Lion over Mountain Lion. It went good but it took my iTunes 10.7 Coverflow away and auto-intalled iTunes 11.3.3 which I didn't want. So then I shut it off and it brought back the recovery partition though that was great but didn't want iTunes 11. So then since the partition was back i tried to do a clean install from the recovery partition and it worked fine but again brought back iTunes 13. So then since the recovery partition was back i tried again to do a Time Machine backup well now what it did was leave the recovery partition missing again, it brought back my iTunes 10.7 but now again no recovery partition. Seems all those Time Machine backups will be missing the partition so now I have no partition again.


Tried to open iPhoto and it works fine now no more crashing and Back To My Mac is also function and is checkedd under the iCloud preferences so now I"m at like a happy medium, iPhoto works, iTunes 10.7 is back but now I'm without recovery partition once again. So I don't know what can I say?


The reason I originally toggled iCloud on and off was thinking maybe it would fix the iPhoto but it originally didn't and then lost Find My Mac and that was greyed out and had a note under sayiing to use Find My Mac I need a recovery partition. So that means that Find My Mac is now checked and working, I can tell when I access it form another computer from the web based icloudmail. It shows up in list of devices when I click on Find My Phone but when iCloud was toggled off and back on Find My Mac no longer worked when turning iCloud back on. When I went to a library computer and click on Find My Phone I saw both my Mac missing from this list. Only my iPod showed up so I knew it was no longer working.


So now I'm like in between a rock and a hard place. iPhoto now opens up, Find My Mac is back on as long as I don't turn iCloud off and then back on but again it had to be done from a Time Machine backup which again leaves me without a recovery partition once again but iPhoto is no longer crashing. So kind of stuck on what to do but it's like a happy medium. Was fine once I got the recovery partition back and did a fresh install of Mountain Lion but left me with version of iTunes without Coverflow so to get that back I had to install from Time Machine again. So now I have my iTunes 10.7 back, Find My Mac is on and iPhoto works but again no recover partition. Can't win 'em all. Ha-Ha. The only reason I held out on Montain Lion all this time was to keep my iTunes 10.7 or else I'd upgrade to Mavericks and be stuck with iTunes 11 but when I dowloaded Mountain Lion from Mac store past purchases anyways it installed iTunes 11 which leaves my kind of in the middle now.

Adobe Flash Player (General install error) sucks! Mach_Kernal missing?

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