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I had a slow day today, so thought I would fire up the old 27" iMac that hasn't been switched on for about 5 months.
Got to the desktop finally after clicking off the various warnings from Kaspersky, BlockBlock and Oversight about "webcam access" being denied to various programs.
Clicked on Kaspersky and updated it and had to restart. .
Back on desktop (more warnings about webcam access) clicked to update my cloud client, all good, and then clicked on App Store icon that was showing the red updates available indicator.
After closing the various warnings about "webcam access" again, I saw their were several updates available. One for Safari, one security for MacOS and one for Mail.
But before I could click download, got messages about updating Opera, Virtualbox and VLC Media Player.
So I decided to update those first. After more warnings about webcam access being blocked for Virtualbox and Opera I clicked the downloads for the updates in the App Store.
After several seconds I got a prompt to restart. So I clicked the prompt to restart now and left it be.
Computer rebooted after about a minute to a white screen, then after several minutes the Mac shut down.
I thought I'll just leave it alone and see what transpires.
After 10 minutes the Mac was still "off" so I hit the power button to fire it up.
White screen 2 minutes turn off. Repeat.
Did above three more times then got Apple logo in centre of a completely white screen. 2 minutes shutdown.
Waited 10 minutes, pushed power button, got Apple logo, very large progress bar (about 30cm long by 5 cm high!) that went to about 25% and Mac shutdown.
Left it for an hour and hit the power button again. White screen, 2 minutes shutdown.
Life's too short. I don't really use it anyway so don't really care if it works or not.
One day I'll try fixing it. But not today.
Got to the desktop finally after clicking off the various warnings from Kaspersky, BlockBlock and Oversight about "webcam access" being denied to various programs.
Clicked on Kaspersky and updated it and had to restart. .
Back on desktop (more warnings about webcam access) clicked to update my cloud client, all good, and then clicked on App Store icon that was showing the red updates available indicator.
After closing the various warnings about "webcam access" again, I saw their were several updates available. One for Safari, one security for MacOS and one for Mail.
But before I could click download, got messages about updating Opera, Virtualbox and VLC Media Player.
So I decided to update those first. After more warnings about webcam access being blocked for Virtualbox and Opera I clicked the downloads for the updates in the App Store.
After several seconds I got a prompt to restart. So I clicked the prompt to restart now and left it be.
Computer rebooted after about a minute to a white screen, then after several minutes the Mac shut down.
I thought I'll just leave it alone and see what transpires.
After 10 minutes the Mac was still "off" so I hit the power button to fire it up.
White screen 2 minutes turn off. Repeat.
Did above three more times then got Apple logo in centre of a completely white screen. 2 minutes shutdown.
Waited 10 minutes, pushed power button, got Apple logo, very large progress bar (about 30cm long by 5 cm high!) that went to about 25% and Mac shutdown.
Left it for an hour and hit the power button again. White screen, 2 minutes shutdown.
Life's too short. I don't really use it anyway so don't really care if it works or not.
One day I'll try fixing it. But not today.
