(Update Needed) shows when booting MacBook Pro 2011 - macos

After erasing the hard drive of my MacBook Pro 2011, I realized that I must've done something wrong, because whenever I boot, the computer will ask for the hard drive password. Might this have to do with the fact that I chose Journaled, Encrypted?

I ran into this too. If you go to the "Security" preference pane, you should see a message that says "File Vault is turned on for the disk . Some users are not able to unlock the disk." Click the padlock in the lower left of the preference pane to authenticate, then click "Enable Users" and select which users you want to allow. They'll then be able to unlock the disk when logging in, instead of at boot time.

Had the same issue after doing an erase/encrypt of the disk followed by a re-install of OS/X. I just put in the password I used to encrypt the drive and it allowed me to log in and then continue the install.

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RunAs/Remote Desktop Windows Security - A Device attached to this device is not functioning correctly

Good Afternoon, never seen this one before in my years of working with Windows but im at a loss to try and find the solution to this one.
When users log on to their desktops as Non-Admin accounts, there are particular applications they need to run as different users due to the way some of the systems work. A load of system policies where updated for security at group policy level however now something strange is happening when the user initiates a RunAs by holding the shift key down or if they attempt to remote desktop to another machine, the NLA Windows Security box that prompts for credentials takes 5/10 minutes to appear.
When the user hovers over the taskbar icon, then over the window without clicking the Windows Security box displays as full screen missing the username and password box but when you click on it nothing happens and just disappears. Eventually after a few minutes the windows security box will appear and can log in as normal however the users jump into systems adhoc and cant be waiting for minutes at a time to put their credentials in which could cost a lot of user down time during the day.
I have tried looking at the security log but as you can imagine its filled with all sorts and trying to locate one specifically without knowing the issue is difficult at best. Has anyone had this issue before that can point me in any direction. I have to assume this is permission related on the devices trying to access something locally because when i log on to the devices with an account in the administrators group all these issues disappear and the windows security works as normal. Also, if they click "Run as administrator" they get the UAC credential box so i don't believe this is UAC related as its working by design just anything with "Windows Security" prompts. I should point out that whilst this is waiting - the File Explorer icon highlights under "Run As" like the explorer is waiting to do something.
OS - Windows 10 Pro
Acc - Domain Joined
Group policy enabled
Local Policy Disabled
Update: 21H2
Never seen this before but hoping one of you legends has!
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For anyone reading this - although bizzare as it is...
It turns out it was McAfee Disk Encryption - there was a bug in the local FDE security provider causing it to hang every time it was accessed.
Update your McAfee FDE Client/Agent to the latest version

Audio Service Not Starting/Functioning Properly

My Audio Service refuses to function properly. I have tried so many different solutions I can't even recall all of them.
Here's how it started; I got home from work one day to see my computer has no video signal but is turned on and receiving input from my mouse/keyboard. I force restart my computer and, after it boots up, I see that the Windows Audio Service is stopped.
I first try to use the task manager to start the service (Audiosrv) and it would blink at Starting then immediately go back to Stopped. From here I went to the Services window and tried starting it from there (Windows Audio) and, after trying to start, says Access Denied (Error 0x80070005).
So after searching a solution I went into regedit and was told to add System as a permission group for AudioSrv and the AudioEndpointBreaker service. Turns out they were already there with FULL CONTROL for both.
I try to change the logon to use Local System Account (WITH INTERACT DESKTOP CHECKED!) and voila, my audio service is running! But my bad luck continues.
None of my speakers/headphones are creating sound even though the service turned on and I can see all my devices. As an attempt I tried to do test sound, and this error appears.
Keep in mind I've restarted after every one of these fixes, both the service and my computer afterwards. As a final attempt I tried to open the Command Prompt as administrator and entered sfc /scannow . After verifying, this message appears.
I honestly have no clue what could've happened while I was working, but I'd rather not have to reinstall my windows to lose all my files.
Recap of my attempts to solve
Start the Audiosrv service from Task Manager (failed to start but keep in mind the EndpointBreaker service was running)
Opened services window and tried starting the Windows Audio service (Access Denied [Error 0x80070005])
Tried adding System as permission group for AudioSrv and AudioEndpointBreaker to find out both already had Administrators, my user, and System with full Control.
Changed login to local system account with interact desktop control checked and it fixed! Supposedly. THIS WAS THE FIX FOR 99% OF PEOPLE ON THE FORUMS
After realizing my sound wasn't playing but my devices/control was showing up, tried testing sound and received an error.
Last resort I did a sfc /scannow command and was given the response shown above.
What should and what can I do to get my audio running?
SIDENOTE
When I drag the volume slider [which usually creates a tone with the volume adjusted], the speakers/headphones meter on the Sound window do NOT light up green (in other words they aren't showing sound receiving on its end)
I resolved this issue after doing a system restore.
Add the Local Service in the Local Users and Groups
Right-click This PC or My Computer, depending on which version of Windows you have, and select Manage from the dropdown menu.
To the right, you will see a System Tools section. Double click Local Users and Groups, and select Groups beneath it.
Right-click Administrators in the list in the middle of the window, and select Add to group.. from the dropdown menu.
Click Add, then Advanced, and then click Find Now. Double click Local Service, and click OK. You should see NT Authority\Local Service in the list, click OK. Close the Computer Management window and reboot your device. Your problem should be solved.
Then in services.msc change logon to LOCAL SYSTEM.
If you dont permission to run Windows Audio:
key windows + Services
search Windows Audio
right click settings
login
Local system account and allow the service to interact with the desktop
save and run Windows Audio

Mac OSX Catalina - Safari won't download files, not enough free space when plenty

I've had a search on the forums and the internet but couldn't find an answer to my issue.
Just updated my OSX to Catalina. I'm having a problem with Safari, when I try and download a file it tells me that there isn't enough space and to delete files. My SSD and my removable volume have more than enough space. As I only have a 128gb Macbook Pro I use an SD card as an overflow and this is where my download folder directs to. If I download using 'download file as..' and select the main SSD, it downloads fine. It just won't let me access the SD card. Chrome works fine.
I know that apps have been asking to access the removable volume, but to my knowledge, Safari has never asked permission. I've found how to add permission to for apps to access removable volumes in the privacy settings, but I cannot add safari to this list.
I've clicked the padlock and given permission but the + symbol is greyed out and I cannot drag the app from the applications folder to the window.
If somebody could point me in the right direction, I'd greatly appreciate it.
I had the same problem and fixed it as follows:
do "get info" on the downloads folder. You will see on users & groups a user "fetching" or something similar, but not your user name in the list.
click on the lock item next to the list and remove that user.
click on the + to add your name to the list.
close the lock.
Sorry if I got some details wrong. At work I'm enjoying Windows :)

Codesign wants to access key "access" in your keychain, I put in my login password but keeps asking me

I'm trying to learn to load apps on my iPhone from Xcode. When I do I keep getting "Codesign wants to access key "access" in your keychain, I put I my login password but it keeps popping up over and over. I've tried my computer login so many times, apple account password, and many others.
Had the same issue. It was fixed after I entered my mac user password and hit Always Allow.
Solve this problem by doing this.
Enter your Mac Login Password and Choose "Always Allow"
One or More dialogs opened and positioned in the same dialog, repeat step 1 until all dialogs closed. (So you thought your
password wrong but repeat "Always Allow" with your Mac login
password tricky part :) )
Hope it will work.
I pressed Deny by mistake and I was stuck, no way to code sign any Pods.
This is how I solved the problem:
Open the keychain
look for the key com.apple.gs.xcode.auth.com.apple.account.AppleIDAuthentication.token
open it
click on the Access Control tab
at the bottom there's Always allow access for these applications: -> add Xcode in the list
Don't forget to press Save Changes
2019: I had to enter the password like 40 times... must be a bug... but it worked
I encountered this running a brand new project. Neither the Allow or Always Allow button seemed to work, however it wasn't giving me the 'incorrect password' shaking feedback. What was happening was that there were multiple dialog boxes all in the same position, so as I entered a password and clicked Allow nothing changed visually. I ended up having at least 3 dialogs all stacked up on each other, which I only discovered when I tried dragging the dialog. Entering passwords into each of them let my project finish building.
Enter your login password, and select always allow, to avoid typing in your password multiple times.
I clicked the "Deny" button, and the keychain was off.
I locked the keychain:
And then I entered the login keychain again.
Following worked for me!
open keychain-management on your Mac
select "login" on the left pane
look for the key which is causing this issue. Mine was iOS Developer...
double-click the key and select "Allow access to all programs" in the access column
Restart Xcode and try to build again. It will ask you again but with the additional option to "Always allow. Enter your macOS user password as password and press "Always allow".
Let me know if it worked for you.
Enter the password you use to open you Mac session and click on "Always allow" until all alerts are closed. The other buttons do not work...
The same dialog asking for the KeyChain password has 3 buttons. Most likely the wanted password is that for logging in to your Mac. If you press "Allow" it only works for some tiny aspect and will ask again, which is very puzzling. You need to press "Always Allow". The verification team at Apple is very weak, they need some 'normal' developers in the design team for the chain of events to get an app in the app store. Normal developers have very sketchy ideas about KeyChains and Certificates and Profiles.
Okay Guys, after literally 2,5 hours of trying to fix that error I managed to find a solution that worked on my two Mac Machines.
These are the steps I did:
Open Xcode -> Preferences
Go to the Accounts Tab
Click the button on the bottom right telling 'Manage certificates'
Look for the name of the certificate
Open the keychain manager
Select in the menu the Sign-In tab
Do a right-click and then delete on the certificate that was named in the Xcode settings page before
Go back into Xcode and see Xcode creating a new certificate(The window will be empty for a couple of seconds and then there will a new certificate lighten up.
Rerun your app
I hope that could help you guys. It helped me a lot! :)
Liam
In my case, I didn't have the 3 buttons described in the other answers ("Allow", "Always Allow", "Deny"). I only had an "OK" button.
I tried entering the following passwords:
Login password, the one I use to login to my Mac.
Apple ID, the one I use to authorize App Store purchases and login to my iCloud.
Apple Developer ID, the one I use to login to App Store Connect.
But none worked.
What did work, strangely, was leaving the password text field empty.
Hope this is a bug, but don't worry you can continue your build without any problem. Like all others I am sharing my experience.
The dialog will pop up again and again, and I thought that I maybe forgot the keychain password.
what you have to do is enter the Mac login password and press Always allow.
if nothing is happening, check the dialog by dragging it with mouse, and move the dialog. you will find same dialog underneath.
try separating all the dialog through out the screen and find the dialog that is working. (ie, maybe only only dialog will accept the password and close. yeah, it may reopen new dialogs anyway. but never mind.)
Continue the password entering and pressing always allow until it give up.
I entered the password around 20 - 30 time I guess. and it worked pretty well.
now thinking that if I press always allow on the first time, maybe it will not come again.
I have had the same problem. I had more than one Xcode window open, closing all other open windows leaving only the current one open solved the problem for me.
As of August 31, 2018.
Resolving:
1. Search Keychain Access
2. [KEYCHAIN] Login | [CATEGORY] Passwords
3. Look for you email address and double click. <it might not be necessary but just try this>
4. [ACCESS CONTROL] choose "allow all application to access this item".
5. Rebuild to your phone. If you have error choose a virtual device and build (to reset the build objects). Then choose to rebuild to your phone again.
In my particular case, the dialog box did not have the Always Allow, Allow or Deny options, so I wasn't able to use the above solutions. I had to go to my Keychain Access app, choose the certificate, go to "Access Control" and add Xcode in the apps to Always Allow access. After that, the dialog showed the Always Allow button, which I could use successfully.
For me, I realized one of the dialogs was opened in another workspace. Once I discovered that and input my password there it went through.
What helped me was to enter the incorrect password. After that, when entereing the correct password, new dialogs started to open in different places of the workspace. I had to enter the correct password about 20 times hitting Always allow. Which helped!
For me, the problem was caps lock. and it seems it may ask you a couple of times to input your password or you will have to enter a password once and press always allow.
Just click on the certificate in the keychain access and change the access permission if you want to avoid entering password at all, else select Always allow and it will prompt probably 4-5 times and it will be done.
I was also having the problem while running the carthage script in the build phase. (Xcode 9)
I get that dialog for each and every framework I had added plus the app itself. You can see a very dark shadow growing.
I could bypass it by entering the password every time and hitting "Always Allow".
I had the same problem: while building iOS release for Flutter project, was asked for keychain password, entered Apple ID password for developer account, no luck.
Finally succeeded by entering password for computer I was using (which was an on-line mac server).
Hope that helps.
For me XCode had expired my login...XCode-Preferences - saw it had logged me out, loged back in. Only came up with this solution by chance thanks to a related post here that took me to preferences in XCode !
dialogs open on each other some of them should confirm first , if you enter password many times and it dosen't work just drag a dialog and see if there is any other dialogs under it and confirm them. it works for me
Annoyingly, for me it opened up several boxes, so I had to pay attentions that when I clicked always allow for one box, another box, flickered. So had to add all the passwords and clicks in an ordered fashion according to the mac.
then I got it to work.
For those that have had no luck with the provided answers:
Try to first turn off any app that might be changing your mouse behaviour (like "Mos", that smooths scrolling) and any bluetooth mice you have connected.
Here is best solution:
1-)revoke all certificate in your apple developer account
2-)log off your developer account inside xcode
3-)relogin with your developer account
4-)re-create certifiactes...
It will work like charm :)
The popular answers are outdated.
Update 2022: Just press Enter. See also here
I was facing the same issue and for me the "Always Allow" option was not coming so I had to enter the username and password again and again and after entering for almost 150+ times, I checked in case the p12 is there or not earlier which I added also but it got removed somehow and I added the p12 again and boom I got the "Always Allow" option also and in a single try it worked.
For me this worked like a charm. Try doing this. This error of pop up will go.
A reboot prevents it from opening the dialog.

IOStorageFamily deleted in error

I have accidentally deleted the file System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext by mistake. I know how stupid this was!
Now my iMac (model 2008, running Mavericks) gets stuck on the grey startup screen and hangs forever after the Apple logo turns into a no entry sign whilst the wheel continues to turn forever, see the following link for image showing this screen:
No entry sign on startup screen
I have run Disk Utility from the install CD and repaired the disk permissions with no success.
I have tried to run the rescue partition by using the Command + R key but this just displays my exsisting HD and does not show another option.
I have tried to boot into single user start with no success. The screen eventually hangs and says it can not find IOStorageFamily.kext.
I have tried to boot into safe mode with no success. It simply fails with the no entry sign as above.
I have reset the PRAM but this did not make any difference.
I have done a hardware test using the D key on startup but this returned no errors.
Please can someone advise if there is any way to fix this problem and if the is then what is the best way to do it? I know that it is not a harddrive failing or anything else and is simply because I accidently deleted the IOStorageFamily.kext file. Surely there is a way to repair this?
I appreciate any help or advice.
Many thanks
I have managed to fix the problem by using the following method:
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH13842
It says:
If you have two Mac computers with FireWire or Thunderbolt ports, you
can connect them so that one of them appears as an external hard disk
on the other. This is called “target disk mode.”
Connect the two computers with a FireWire or Thunderbolt cable. Start
up the computer to be used as a disk in target disk mode: If the
computer is off, start it up while holding down the T key.
If the computer is on, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click
Startup Disk, then click Target Disk Mode.
When the computer has started up, a disk icon appears on the desktop
of the other computer.
Transfer files by dragging them to and from the disk. Eject the disk
by dragging its icon to the Trash. While you drag, the Trash icon
changes to an Eject icon.
On the computer you used as a disk, push the power button to shut it
down, then disconnect the cable.
After connecting to another Mac I simply copied the deleted file back into the correct directory from the host Mac.
I then booted my Mac successfully and repaired the file permissions via Disk Utility.

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