How to start in safe mode?
How do I start my MacBook Pro in “safe“ mode?
PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Restart with the Shift key held down.
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It won’t accept my known power-on password. Something in “Mail” locked and I had to do a power shutdown. Now, I can’t get it to come back on. The Shift key did get me to “Safe Boot.”
Had to spend an hour on the phone with Apple support (who were great) to solve this one.
It opened with the blue screen, Safe Mode and data upper right, and the 2 fields for ID and password. But it didn’t solve the problem. It is not my Apple password I need but the “laptop “ password. So I can’t get it to open to get to my “users” password.
Safe Mode does one pass of Disk Repair before it attempts to loads MacOS.
If your drive is encrypted, you get the encryption login screen, but MacOS is not yet functional.
If the drive is not encrypted, The login screen is presented in front of a functional MacOS, with minimal extensions loaded.
what did it get you to?
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How to start in safe mode?