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good Mac repair/troublehshooting forums?

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hey all, aside from (perhaps) Macrumors.com, which Mac repair forums do you find to be knowledgeable and helpful?
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MacOSHints was the only one I found consistently useful, but it is no longer active.
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bayswater wrote:MacOSHints was the only one I found consistently useful, but it is no longer active.
UGH!! (but thanks :) )
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Google Searches, then distill into a semi-reliable tonic.
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The best Mac forum I know of is a sub-forum right here at da 'Nation.

It's called mikehalloran:

http://www.motunation.com/forum/memberl ... le&u=42518

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Yeah.... I've probably more about my Mac over the last 15 years from right here on Motunation!!

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Dare I ask what's wrong?
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A sub-forum intelligent enough even to ask a question?

Crikey, what'll they think of next?

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Apple's own forums have been a good source for me.
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mikehalloran wrote:Dare I ask what's wrong?
short version is (was!) that an older MBP with a new SSD (running 10.10.3) died. I purchased a newer MBP, thinking I'd just slap the SSD in it and off I'd go!
After putting it in the newer MBP, it wouldn't boot and would give me a slashed circle. Neither I not the supplier of the MBP had any ideas and then, after a week, I stumbled on to *this* (which turned out to be the solution!):
https://www.cindori.org/trim-enabler-and-yosemite/
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There's a sticky on this in case you do it again. It's more up to date than the Cindori web site and gives you some options:

http://www.motunation.com/forum/viewtop ... =4&t=59419
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mikehalloran wrote:There's a sticky on this in case you do it again.
thanks for that, Mike...
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couple o' hardware synths, loadza legal libraries
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Hey, when it comes to screwing up, some of us are bleeding edge! :headbang:

The trick is to learn from it and post the results.
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