It's Friday ... (2014-01-10)

[Cleo]

Originally Posted by Simon

But on restart the process keeps hanging right before the sign in screen is shown.

Couple of things to try.

Hold down Command V on reboot to see what is actually going on when booting.

Also try holding down the Shift Key when booting to boot into safe mode.

[Simon]

Originally Posted by Cleo

Couple of things to try.

Hold down Command V on reboot to see what is actually going on when booting.

Also try holding down the Shift Key when booting to boot into safe mode.

Thanks, Cleo. I'd already tried everything except booting into safe mode...and then doing the required emptying of the trash. Once I'd done that (plus created a new empty folder, thrown it in the trash, and emptied the trash again), I was able to restart normally and login with no trouble.

[Cleo]

Originally Posted by Simon

Thanks, Cleo. I'd already tried everything except booting into safe mode...and then doing the required emptying of the trash. Once I'd done that (plus created a new empty folder, thrown it in the trash, and emptied the trash again), I was able to restart normally and login with no trouble.

Glad you got it fixed.

Always a good idea to have a second admin account on the computer. Personally I always enable a root account. Then if I'm having issues I can boot into root and do things like delete all my caches or just about anything since a root account has compete access to do anything to any account.

Also show all hidden files is sometimes helpful.
10.9

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE

10.8 and below

defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE