Mac shuts down on startup. Gig in 7 hours. HELP

[djsynchro]

It just works

[Earwax69]

and? did you survive?

[kristoffer1989]

and? did you survive?

+1

[rbmonosylabik]

Yes

It took about 4 hours doing the clean install, update and install everything I needed, which was the Ms Pinky software, Live, iTunes, and a few plug ins, most of which were backed up. The gig went great, strangely with less trainwrecks than I usually cause , and actually, it felt good to work on a clean install. I think the only problem was that the iTunes library backup I had was out of date, which meant I had to fumble around a little converting some music to aiff on the fly because Ms Pinky can't play VBR mp3s, but otherwise, not bad.

No bj though

[Verbal]

Also, a tip: don't get an iPhone, it'll find a way to fuck you up when you least expect it.

User error.

[rbmonosylabik]

How is it user error when it corrupts the backup gets corrupted, then everything else dies when you try to get rid of the corrupted backup?

[Verbal]

How is it user error when it corrupts the backup gets corrupted, then everything else dies when you try to get rid of the corrupted backup?

I don't see why you'd have to boot OS X into safe mode just to delete a backup-- it isn't a system file. Nor how deleting said backup would break your machine.

[rbmonosylabik]

Well, the iPhone couldn't backup anymore when syncing, so the apple support site says you should delete the backup an do a new one. iTunes wouldn't delete it, so I tried through Finder, which didn't work either. I booted into Safe Mode to see if it could be deleted that way, and so it crapped out. Maybe the HD was wrong before, maybe I did break it, but I didn't do anything out of the ordinary.