Posted on 01/09/2016 4:31:59 PM PST by MeshugeMikey
My copy of google chrome is not running as it dont fully finish launching on my launch attempt .
I can not force quit it from the force quit applications window.. because its nt running. I can not launch it as the Icon in my dock seems inert.
there are a couple of forums I NEED my password for and they were available immediately using chrome.
At Wits End,
M.M.
well the machines still running,,,
Im really an utter novice under the hood If you hadnt guessed
Its still in the Force Quit Applications window for whatever reason
There are no processes called ‘chrome’ running on your mac right now. You may to do a web search on your specific problem.
Chrome is Google. How does google make their money? From observing evening thing you do online and selling it. Do you get a cut?
Nope!
As far as I’m concerned, whether fair or not, Google is the public, commercial arm, of the NSA.
I have a NEST thermostat in my home. It will be the last NEST product I ever own. It wasn’t owned by Google when I bough itt, but it is now.
Just say no to Google!
Freeper swordmaker is one, if not, the best with that stuff.
My guess is the Force Quit Application(opt-comm-esc) showing chrome running is a bug in the Force Quit Application, I wouldn’t worry about it. It is definitely not running because there’s no chrome process running. You checked with the ps command.
The first thing to do after getting this corrected is :SET UP THE TIME MACHINE!!!!!! It is invaluable.
You can reclaim passwords by going into utilities and then keychain. Hunt for the passwords in the listing on the left. The rest is intuitive.
I don’t know what else to suggest regarding Chrome. I don’t use it myself. But it and all processes running should show in the Activity monitor. When Chrome runs, it should show several Google Chrome processes running along with a PID (process ID number as shown in the Terminal session). A shame that you don’t have Time Machine backups. In that case, I would make a copy of the Library under your logon ID (find it via Finder, alongside Desktop, Documents, Downloads etc.), copy it to a portable HD or USB stick. Buried in that Library are Logs and Diagnostic Reports, that may contain clues to what is going on. In Diagnostic Reports, you may have a Google Chrome crash report. Also make a copy of the Chrome application in your Applications folder. And in the future, run Time Machine backups to an external destination. Good luck.
When you get this machine fixed, set up time machine right away.
It is an awesome thing to have and I have had to use it before. My Mac is about five years old.
I wish I could help, Mikey. Too stoopit. Good Luck!
BFL
there are scant few passwords in the list and none for the sites I can’t get access to at the moment
Thank you.
I’ve never opened the Utility folder before. It appears I have at least a half dozen “google helpers” .. is that normal? My machine runs very slow, but I have no idea what’s causing it.
Also, any idea how I can get spotify not to be part of the start up? I love techies who understand this stuff. All I know how to do is turn the machine on/off.
I just tried an experiment. I asked the dock...to hide chrome. It resumed to budge
I just went to the Photo Forum that I post one...scrolled down to the bottom of the page...noted a forgot password...One Liner..so to speak clicked it...and was immediately logged on there.
Just a touch odd. as Im using a browser I haven’t used there previously.
the chrome thing is now merely an annoyance rather than a serious conundrum...at least for the moment.
Thank you
I have two internal drives in my dead mac that likely have several thousand photographs on them..
What should it cost me to have someone put those drives in enclosures and access this material?
Glad it’s just an annoyance now. Can’t always get to FR to respond, sorry. Anyway, not likely your Mac is dead, it can be revived with care (and a clean HD). You can do the drive swaps with a little investigation. A place I like is OWC (Other World Computing). You can find low cost external enclosures and hard drives (my preference is SSD internally, solid state drives); they provide install information, utilities and videos. It just takes patience, as it takes time to clone the data from one HD to another, and then physically swap them. As for paying someone else to do it, I don’t know as I do all my own swaps; you’ll have to research that. Google OWC or Other World Computing to find their online store.
I use a Voyager drive dock I bought from them, for inserting either 2.5 or 3.5 inch HDs via Firewire or SATA to do cloning. They currently have a low cost Voyager drive dock with a USB interface for $30, cheap. Makes it easy to swap different drives in or out without the hassle of a case enclosure. Or you can just buy a USB enclosure for the drive, anywhere from $10 to $30 depending on sales. I use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the data, the trial copy is free and I got it from OWC. Clone your bad drive, then tinker with the new cloned drive by reinstalling the OSX to regain your data. If anything goes wrong, you still have the original bad drive. In the worst case, you can create a fresh new drive and still import your data from the old bad drive. Your data is still there, you just need to have a good operational OS to access it. If this is beyond you, do find someone with expertise that will experiment with a cloned drive and not the original. I’ll say it again, cloning drives is easy but time consuming, but is good insurance. And a good thing to do for backups of hard drives having thousands of photos on them.
I like using the Activity Monitor within the Utility folder. Sometimes if your machine slows, you can see which process is the culprit and then kill it and associated processes. Easier than going into Terminal and using the UNIX commands (unless you love that). In Activity Monitor sometimes you’ll see a process doing lots of network activity sending data in and out. In that case, pull your Ethernet plug or turn off Wi-Fi and see if you regain control of your machine. Sometimes some crafty program or extension will take over your machine, on it’s own, and leave you frustrated waiting on a spinning cursor. Perhaps something picked up from a bad web site or piggybacked on a new application. Stopping your network access will allow you to clean Safari of accumulated web cookies and other junk, and any other bad apps you recently installed. Always a good idea to periodically clear out old website data, although you’ll have to re-enter logins and passwords, naturally, but it will reinforce your memory of them.
Go to Apple/Preferences/User & Groups, and under your user ID select Login Items. It will show those apps that automatically start when you login. Delete the ones you no longer want to start up automatically.
What OS are you running?
Thank you .. this is really helpful. I’m not sure how to tell that a given app is sucking up too much of the process but hope to get it figured out. I’m always afraid to delete or change anything for fear I won’t be able to log back into my computer. Gotta get over that! Thanks so much.
Windows 10.
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