major problem

[lostinforums]

Hi,

macbook pro late 2011
10.13.6
SSD
HDD (in place of the optical drive)

laptop was fine until i opened it this evening. Basically its acting very strange, half my finder window sidebar favourites have gone, my desktop picture has been replaced by the stock one (sometimes after restart my desktop pic comes back, sometimes it doesn't), dropbox can't start, it won't connect, sometimes it tries.

When i go to shutdown or restart it can take ages, sometimes not.

Ive reset pram, ive deleted com.apple.finder.plist, no change.

There's something gone seriously wrong here. But i have no idea what.

internet is working.

Any ideas anyone?

Thanks

 

[deadworlds]

Run disk utility and run first aid. Could be a failing/corrupted hard drive. Report back what disk utility tells you. If applicable tell us what the SMART status is of your drive.
Run this on all drives.

 

[lostinforums]

Run disk utility and run first aid. Could be a failing/corrupted hard drive. Report back what disk utility tells you. If applicable tell us what the SMART status is of your drive.
Run this on all drives.

I got this message -

 

[deadworlds]

I got this message -

Forgot to mention that you’ll have to restart and boot into recovery mode. Reason being is that you can’t repair a drive that is currently in use.

Hold option + r at boot.

 

[lostinforums]

ok, did a recovery mode, ran first aid on both drives, said they were ok, restarted, still the same.

 

[Audit13]

Is this a 15" or 13”?

 

[lostinforums]

Is this a 15" or 13”?

I think it’s a 13”. Not at it at the moment.

 

[Audit13]

It could be a bad sata drive cable. These cables are known to fail on the 2009 to 2012 MacBooks.

If it’s a 15”, it could be a sign that the gpu has failed.