mid 2010 iMac internet recovery stuck on apple logo

[c949808]

Tell me why you want to reinstall, there is no reason to reinstall, none.
It's not the mandatory 2 year Windows reinstall because it will get slow.
OS X/macOS does not slow down, and if it does there are easier ways to solve it without a reinstall.

There's just 1 or 2 reasons to reinstall, 1 of them is if you F...ked up your disk by fiddling with permission, second is if the filesystem is so corrupt that even Diskwarrior can't repair it, and that is very..VERY rare.

i want to reinstall because i did something wrong and a bunch of space is taken up by something that i can't delete

 

[justperry]

i want to reinstall because i did something wrong and a bunch of space is taken up by something that i can't delete

Sure you can delete.

Lets say you have a file to delete

Open Terminal
Type
Sudo rm and drag the file onto terminal
input your password
Hit return....gone

If it's a Folder
Open Terminal
type
Sudo rm -R drag Folder to the terminal
input your password
return
Gone....

 

[c949808]

Sure you can delete.

Lets say you have a file to delete

Open Terminal
Type
Sudo rm and drag the file onto terminal
input your password
Hit return....gone

If it's a Folder
Open Terminal
type
Sudo rm -R drag Folder to the terminal
input your password
return
Gone....

it's in the volumes folder so i don't think that would work (the files are just the files on the partition because it copied that into the folder like 5 times)

 

[justperry]

it's in the volumes folder so i don't think that would work (the files are just the files on the partition because it copied that into the folder like 5 times)

Huh, don't understand, if it's in the Volume folder it's not on your HD, or did you make an extra partition, if that is the case you can delete that partition in Disk Utility without destroying your disk.
Well, you have Snow Leopard I think, not 100% sure if you can actually do that on that System and enlarge you root partition on the fly, too long ago since I used Snow Leopard.

Edit: You can, I just did a Google search.

 

[c949808]

Huh, don't understand, if it's in the Volume folder it's not on your HD, or did you make an extra partition, if that is the case you can delete that partition in Disk Utility without destroying your disk.
Well, you have Snow Leopard I think, not 100% sure if you can actually do that on that System and enlarge you root partition on the fly, too long ago since I used Snow Leopard.

when i copied everything from an external disk to the internal one, when it reached the volumes folder it just started copying everything that was on the disk to a folder in there and now i can't delete it, and also it actually is on the disk because i don't think a mac os x install should take up 42gb
the disk had mountain lion on it

 

[justperry]

when i copied everything from an external disk to the internal one, when it reached the volumes folder it just started copying everything that was on the disk to a folder in there and now i can't delete it, and also it actually is on the disk because i don't think a mac os x install should take up 42gb
the disk had mountain lion on it

So, you copied it into a Folder in the /Volumes Folder, if that's the case and you are sure to delete it then do this...

Open Terminal.....it's in the Utilities Folder, or hit CMD-spacebar..type Terminal

Input
Sudo rm -R /Volumes/name of that folder
hit return
input your password when asked
hit return

Gone, you have your space back.

 

[c949808]

So, you copied it into a Folder in the /Volumes Folder, if that's the case and you are sure to delete it then do this...

Open Terminal.....it's in the Utilities Folder, or hit CMD-spacebar

Input
Sudo rm -R /Volumes/name of that folder
hit return
input your password when asked
hit return

Gone, you have your space back.

i don't know the name of the folder and i'll probably end up doing something wrong and delete everything on the partition

 

[justperry]

i don't know the name of the folder and i'll probably end up doing something wrong and delete everything on the partition

How come you don't know the name of the Folder but you do know it's in the /Volumes Folder

Can you make a screenshot of your Volumes folder and post it here.
To do that

Hit Shift-Command-4...select the area to make the screenshot from, your volumes folder, next make a new post here on MR, and upload the screenshot.

Don't be afraid, if you do exactly what I say nothing can go wrong.

I will go to bed soon though....

 

[c949808]

How come you don't know the name of the Folder but you do know it's in the /Volumes Folder

Can you make a screenshot of your Volumes folder and post it here.
To do that

Hit Shift-Command-4...select the area to make the screenshot from, your volumes folder, next make a new post here on MR, and upload the screenshot.

Don't be afraid, if you do exactly what I say nothing can go wrong.

I will go to bed soon though....

the volumes folder says it's 0KB even if i saw files being copied there when copying everything using terminal

 

[justperry]

the volumes folder says it's 0KB even if i saw files being copied there when copying everything using terminal

It says 0 Kb because you don't have permissions to know what is inside, if you do have permissions you COULD delete it, since you can't it says 0 Kb
See below what I mean...
I have no permission to look into this Folder, so, as you can see it's 0 KB but I know it's not empty

 

[c949808]

It says 0 Kb because you don't have permissions to know what is inside, if you do have permissions you COULD delete it, since you can't it says 0 Kb
See below what I mean...
I have no permission to look into this Folder, so, as you can see it's 0 KB but I know it's not empty

View attachment 856589

i tried to go to the folder that should have had all of the data redirected to the boot partition so i would delete all of the files there if i tried to delete it with terminal

 

[justperry]

The above was just an example of a Folder, it's not in the Volumes Folder, here's an example how I would delete this Folder, I did not hit return, nor delete it since that could be a problem.

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i tried to go to the folder that should have had all of the data redirected to the boot partition so i would delete all of the files there if i tried to delete it with terminal

I don't understand...., that's why I asked for a screenshot, is this Folder a symlink?

Now, if you don't mind, I go to bed, need some sleep.

 

[c949808]

i mean it would have deleted all of the files on the disk, meaning it probably wouldn't boot anymore

 

[justperry]

Huh...what went wrong....

 

[DeltaMac]

Nothing particularly wrong here, appeared to be a "troll" feeding you nonsense -- and you were pulled in.

 

[justperry]

Nothing particularly wrong here, appeared to be a "troll" feeding you nonsense -- and you were pulled in.

Might have been so, or a spammer.