Sometimes when you start your Mac OS X operating system, it may misbehave. When you try to move or copy any file from one directory to another, you may receive the following error message:

“The file name was too long”

In fact the file name is not too long. When you try to rename the file to make the file name short, you receive another error message:

“Ls unknown parameters”

In such situations, most of the users attempt to restart the system. When you try to do it using Apple-> Restart in Finder menu, the system restarts. But it takes always to get past with the white screen with the Apple logo and with spinning circle.

After a short span of time, the screen becomes blue with the spinning circle. No icons get displayed. It looks stuck in the loop.

Cause

This behavior occurs if there is something wrong with your file system like any of the file system attribute has got damaged. The important Mac file system attributes are Volume header, Allocation file, Catalog file etc. Another possible reason of this problem could be the corruption to boot volume.

Regardless the reason of problem, the results could be very drastic. All of the data stored on your Mac hard drive may become inaccessible and you may fall in the grave situations of data loss.

 

Resolution

To work around this issue, you will have to format your hard drive and reinstall the operating system. It works in all of the such situations. It will install a fresh copy of file system which will be free from any problem.

Though, it works but also has several drawbacks. Formatting the hard drive will wipe all the data stored on it and eventually will lead to the nightmare of data loss. The final result of this practice will be the need of Mac data recovery.

Mac data recovery is feasible through data recovery software known as Mac data recovery software. These software are capable of attending all of the data loss issues. The Mac recovery software are pretty easy to use and perform quick data recovery Mac.

Stellar Phoenix Macintosh Data Recovery software is the ultimate solution of all your Mac data loss problems. An extensive scan of the affected hard drive is performed by this Mac recovery software and an absolute data recovery Mac is carried out. With the rich graphical support, the software is very easy to use.