11. Troubleshooting Your MacBook System
In this chapter, you learn how to recover and correct common errors that you might encounter when using your system, including
• Force-quitting applications
• Removing application preferences
• Booting in Safe Mode
• Controlling background processes
• Changing login and startup items
• Fixing disk permissions
• Repairing disk errors
• Generating a system profile for diagnostics
Introduction
The MacBook is a great piece of hardware combined with a great operating system. Even so, things can still go wrong; applications can crash or “stop working” and strange errors might crop up over time. If you find ...
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