Quickly FIX the Grey Flashing Folder Question Mark on Apple Mac 🚀
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- All the steps to fix the Grey Screen Flashing Question Mark folder during mac startup...
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0:50 Basic Check Screen Brightness
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by far the most useful video that actually allowed me to get somewhere. I read tons of other articles but none of them mentioned pressing the keys BEFORE turning the laptop on. Haven't fixed it yet but at least now it's a spinning globe instead of a flashing grey question mark folder.
Best of luck. Thanks for your comment. Keep trying the steps over, it can take a while 🤞
It's a spinning glob for me too
Does it work after it ??
Change new wifi and check
I got in by pressing R and Control. I got on a spinning globe which asked for my internet p/w so far so good. Then your OS X Utilities box up. Click disc utilities that takes me to a box that calls itself Disk Utility but does not look the one on here. And i clicked on delete and nothing seems to happen except they tell me i’m not online. I’m stuck and do not know what to do next. All this because i forgot my damned username. I haven’t begun to use it yet. HELP!
Would you please, look at my comment at the top of the comment section and see if you think you can give
any suggestions! Thanks!
ive searched far and wide, finally came across your video and WE ARE BACK UP AND RUNNING 🎉🎉 THANK YOU
Welcome back! Happy to hear, thanks for letting us know :)
Only had to watch the first 3 mins and this guy fixed my laptop for me🙏🏿 thx u
You’re very welcome!! Appreciate your comment 🙏
Thank you so much. 🙏 I thought I had to take a trip to Apple. I'm glad I came across your video. Your video was well-explained and detailed. 1:54 was all it took to fix my computer.
Very happy to hear this helped. Appreciate your feedback. Have a good week.
I have newer subscribed or commented but this guy knows what he’s talking about
Thank you very much.
I had this problem today, watched some other videos that suggest many things other than resetting the ram, I have tried everything, nothing worked, and I was convinced it's a HW issue, but when I reset the ram after watching your video, I could boat into my SSD, you saved me from buying unneeded new SSD and SATA cable.
Loved hearing this news. Happy the video helped you 🙏🏼
@@SmartPhotoVault
Would you please, look at my comment at the top of the comment section and see if you think you can give
any suggestions! Thanks!
The P and R thing worked for me!! Thanks so much. 1 and a half minutes in and I already got it fixed.
Good video
Nice!!! Happy your back up and running.
Cheers mate, id given up my Mac for dead about three years ago but when I plugged it in on a whim i got that file question mark thing. Well confused using the apple service page but thanks to this video was able to reinstall mavericks on my 2TB hd 👍
This is amazing to hear!! So happy for you!!
Thank you so much. Your instructions are crystal clear. As you instructed I kept pressing P and R keys at the same time and while holding both the keys I pressed the power button once. It worked for me. Many thanks once more. Great support 👍
Brilliant! Happy to hear. Appreciate the feedback 👍
Thank you it worked
Thank you for showing all of the options and not just the option that worked for you. I’ve done 3 options. Currently trying option inherent recovery mode. If this doesn’t work, you gave perfect instruction on another option. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful! Best of luck
Very helpful! Thanks so much😸
Brilliant. Thanks for contributing 🙏🏼👍
Thank you very much for fixing my laptop.Very relieved !!
Always welcome! Happy to hear :)
thank you so much Sir! Big help ☺️
Happy to hear this friend 🙏🏼
Hear me out.. I just love you.. you saved me tonssssss . Thank you a million
The third step worked !!! Thanks brother I really appreciate it
Happy days! Glad to of helped. Best
What is that you have downloaded onto the external hard drive? Because I’m having the same trouble connecting to Wi-Fi
I just want to say thank you so much, I almost gave up until I saw your video, thank you so much 😊.
Hey friend. So good to hear this helped. Best
@@SmartPhotoVaultit doesn’t work with me
1 minute and 50 seconds and you resolve my problem. Great video
Happy to help pal 🙏
Thanks a ton, the first troubleshoot worked perfectly
You're welcome! Happy this helped :)
You are amazing broh! Thanks a Lot, I`m gonna Replay they video leaving they adds on to help a little! ❤
This was awsome. Thank you so much. This video helped me alot. Cheers
You're welcome. Happy to hear this helped you :)
1st method worked for me! Thanks!
That's brilliant. happy for you!!
Hi! What kind of harddrive are you using? Is it exFAT?
Big ups! Thanks for the help!
Nice one 👍
Pressing and holding the option button and selecting a drive helped me. Thanks a lot😊
Briilaint to hear 😀
what if the option key only brings up internet recovery
Yes me too there is no loading please need help
Mine does too - just looking through comments to see if there was an answer to this?! I did the internet recovery just in case and it went through to the utilities bit.
Did you work out how to do it??
Great, thank you for the instructions. This worked well for me 😊
Brilliant, happy to hear my friend!
Awesome instructions. I think you saved my MacBook startup issue, for now. Still need new batt and will change HD anyhow. But now it boots to an external drive. Thanks
Great news. All the best now!
Thanks bro. You just saved my life
Happy to help you man.
Thanks Buddy, i was able to fix my machine too.
Hi Tess. Very happy to hear you're fixed and the video helped. appreciate your words here!
This video was extremely helpful. Thank you so much. I didn't have to do all of the steps because the 3rd reboot option worked for me
Brilliant news. Happy to hear this helped you😃
Thank you so much P, R reset did the trick for me👌
Brilliant to hear 🙏🏼
You are a lifesaver as I am in the middle of looking for my next job. Resetting the ram using the P R shortcut did the trick right away!
Brilliant news. Happy this helped you 🙏🏼
Esto me ha salvado la vida, gracias 🙏🏻
Same with me. I never would’ve known how to do this if not for this video. Thank you again!
The best explanation so far! I’ll keep for a reference. Thank you!
Your welcome. Happy to help you
Great video and very helpful. I have a question though.
Why does this happen in the first place? Since I cannot see the internal hard drive in the Disk Utility screen, this means I can assume that the drive itself has failed or the power cord he mentioned is broken?
Hi Ashton. Correct. In that case. Either the Disk, or cable has failed
Internet recover seems to be working 🤞 thank you 🙏
Excellent :)
your a goat bro i was struggling you helped me within the first 2 mins blessss🙏
I appreciate your comment Jordan. Happy this helped 🙌
It is possible to save your date if you didn’t before when transferring to the new hard drive?
first video that helped me out with my Macbook Air 2011!!! subcribed✅✅ thank you!
Legend! Happy to help you
THANK YOU SO MUCH 😭🙏🙏
The first 2min of this video help me fix my problem 🥺🙏 My heart skip a beat when this problem happend to my mac. I already imagine myself will be spending so much fixing it, but thank god I found this video and it is fix my macbook right away 😭❤
Once again thank you so much for making this video, huge thumbs up!! 👏🏻🙌🏼
Very happy for you. Glad to be of assistance 😁🙏
OMGGG YOUR A LIFE SAVER BECUASE OF THE FIRST ONE YOU SAVED MY MACBOOK AIR❤❤❤
Great to hear. Happy to help :)
Hi, I have the same problem in my Mac. And I fixed by the way you told in the video, that is why I want to thanks you. I have a question if I changed my ssd cart totally, does it fixed the problem. My Mac is A1708 2016
Your welcome. Happy it worked for you. …Yes you can also release the hard drive. I have another video on this. Link in my description and top comment here. Best
thank you so much! i had to go into recovery mode, erase the existing drive and install fresh new copy of OS. The macbook pro was for my little sister so i didn't mind losing all datas. I suggest everyone to use time machine save time from time.
Your welcome. Yes good practice to use Time machine, could save time and money. best!
Hello. I need more assistance please
After the OS recovery, it’s asks for passcode. It is that passcode I do not remember. How can I bypass that?
Thank, it worked for me 🥰 installing needles macOS now. Thanks for saving me 👌🥇
Great to hear! ..All the best now
you are amazing i was going around and around then i found your page and i am so happy that i did im now sub
Much love!
I love you dude, just got the my laptop back !!! ❤
So good to hear!
The best video ever, thank you
Holy I have a Mac book air and the option button method worked thanks a lot I was wondering what excuse I could tell my parents if this did not work
Brilliant, happy for you. Thanks for sharing 🙏
Thanks heaps man! First option worked for me.
Briliant to hear!!
Thank you 🙏🏾
I enjoyed it thank you 🙏🏾
Thank you 🙌
Command + R + P did the trick. Saved me from a having to do a reinstall 😃
First option worked for me.... Thank you my brother....
Excellent man! Happy to hear
The second try is helped me. Thank you 🙏
excellent to hear!
You are a genius bro thanks a lot ❤
Sweeet 🙏
thank you so much really helpful.
Happy to help. Best wishes
@@SmartPhotoVault After the disk utility while installing macOS it says that recovery server could not be contacted what does it mean plzz helpp
After the disk utility while installing macOS it says that recovery server could not be contacted what does it mean help me too 😭
Great video! Issue still not solved on my end just yet though- what if my internal disk does appear, and I am able to do “First Aid” on Disk Utility but I cannot reinstall Mac OS? What would be my next step? Thank you in advance!
Hello, Thanks for your comment. I'd say, try the First Aid if you can. If you get a change to back up your data again onto and external disk, do this right away. Then if you need to reinstall Mac OS to another disk you have recent backup. Best of luck
thank you so much!
Thank u bro because of u i finally open my laptop that wasnt open from 1months thanku very much bro u saved ma💕💕💋
Great to hear! Peace 🙏
Will this work if i have an old model of mac?
Saved me a trip to the apple store & probably some money trying to get somebody else to do this for me!
Happy days!
methods still work!! Thanks heaps man
Anytime mate. Happy it worked for you.
I appreciate this video. I had to use somebody else Internet connection. Updated my utility disk. It started back up. The video helped a lot to update.
Happy to hear this helped!
Thank you so much!! It really works 👍🏻
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Hi, When I do the Re-install Mac OS Option. No Disk images are shown (to select) to re-install Mac. I followed your video and understood that using the Disk Repair Utility we need to fix this part. Does this mean that my internal iMAC disk is corrupted / gone ?
It worked for me, and the OS downloaded, but I can't agree to the terms and conditions to finish the setup
Thank you! Worked for me 😀
Happy to hear!!!
Will this work for a regular apple Mac not a laptop
brother my macos high sierra not fixed did all the things. can you show me how to create and install that
I got ? MArk, and then I shut down and re open MacBook air and press and hold option key then it asked me network but no network was in list? :D any solution?
Thank you 2nd option worked for me😊
Perfect. So happy to hear this.
I just took it out of the box a A1990 (brand new), but it wont turn on. Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated. Battery says 0 volts.
Thank you for the video. I ahve entered into "disk utility", followed your steps (also plugged one external drive with MacOS Catalina) but when I try to erase the external unit (same to the one you have selected), it gives error message, in the details says "unmounting disk (-69888)" - Operation failed.
Can you please help me?
Legend thanks so much your ways have worked
Great to hear! All the best to you :)
I have checked everything carefully, but once the macbook shut down or goes into sleep mode I am getting the flashing folder again. After restarting it like 3 or 4 times I am getting the screen "Your computer restarted because of a problem...". I don't how to fix it. Or is my SSD broken? Sometimes I am able to see the SSD in the disk utility, but sometimes it doesn't show me. Also I can't find the right parts (cable and SSD itself) for a Macbook 2017 without touchbar. Is there anyway you could help me out?
*** FIXED BY REPLACING THE SSD ***
Thank you, your video help me login 😎👍🏾
Thank you sir!
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whats the link of downloading mac os to an external hard drive?
thank you this helped alot, god blessed you
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Great instructions. Thank You
Happy this helped you. thanks
This worked! Thanks man!
Brilliant news. Happy to hear mate!
Hi do you have any idea on how should I fix my capslock, delete and space keys are not working after I update. Tried to turn off the hotkeys and reinstalled/downgraded it to catalina but still not working.
Hello, Sorry you experienced this. I’m unsure on the solution. I may suggest asking in the Mac forum page on apples website. Someone who experienced this should be able to help there
@@SmartPhotoVault for me it crash
Thanks for the help!
Happy to help!
Thank you so much !!!
😀
Hello, when I reset my laptop I’m not able to charge my laptop. Everything that I do it doesn’t charge, any idea what I can do to fix this? Thank you so much!
It was very helpful, thank you!
Your very welcome. Glad to hear this helped you 🙏
Thanks again for the video! So I tried again and I managed to get to the Disk Utility screen where I was able to do first aid on my internal drive. Everything went fine, I clicked done, and then pressed restart my laptop, and all of a sudden I was back at the flashing grey ? folder again. Is there anything else I was supposed to click after pressing ‘Done’ on the first aid process? What am I doing wrong?
HI there, Its a good sign that you can see your internal disk. (mine didnt show up) ...This step repairs the disks that can be fixed. If like in your case, I would say try for a second time. Before moving on to the other steops in my video.
If nothings works its either the disk is totally coruped or the disk cabel s broken.
Personally I had to use an external hard drive to temporarly run the OS system on. or you can replace the Disk.
Hope this helps and good luck.
I have had the same issue for 2 weeks and I finally found the solution for me it was because my keyboard was faulty so I just connected external keyboard and hold stat and r button at the same time and it worked.😆
Firmware passwords stop most of the recovery processes , they simply get disabled. Even after entering the password my system starts the recovery process , it gets half way across the recovery boot bar and then flips to a white screen. I suspect a hidden partition is on the main ssd 1TB drive.
Thank you so much
Thanks Shita, happy to help
Wow thank you thank you
Thank youuuuuu 🥹
Your welcome :)
My MacBook keeps doing this sometimes then working the next time I’ve tried resetting it and reinstalling macOS but nothing works. I’m wondering what could be the issue.
Thank you so much! My MacBook Pro is working again. 😊
Thanks for feedback. Very happy to hear this helped you :)
So the last solution with the time machine on your external would be the last one? i dont have an external with time machine back up :(
It really worked, thank you
Excellent!!!
I had to erase my external drive in APFS format because the one you said wont allow me to reinstall with the partition issue.
I have a g5, 2008, "Tiger" all-in-one. It sits for a few minutes, then changes to the workable OS/GUI
Option command r and p worked for me thanks
Brilliant 🙏😃