Clean, fresh re-install & back to the same problems !?
hi guys
after a spell of LOTS of beach balls & things hanging out of the blue driving me nuts, i decided to re-download M.Lion, make a bootable USB drive, erase Macintosh HD, i verified/repaired the disk w/ D.Utility & proceeded to re-install Mountain Lion + my iLife apps from the original install DVD that came w/ my iMac ( 27'' late 2009, i7, 16GB RAM )
being at a loss pinpointing what was causing the trouble, i ran an Hardware Test ( all good.. ) reset the Pram + SMC...everything short of drowning it w/ WD40 ;-)
it all went smoothly & once done, i checked for software updates & installed them, restarted the computer & started re-installing the non Apple apps i had but NOT before i checked Roaring Apps for any imcompatibilities w/ M.Lion - because of some doubts, a few WERE left out !
it's been a couple of days now, at 1st all was well but slowly the ''clunkiness'' came back :
1 - one minute Safari takes quite a long time to launch, the other it doesn't & just zipps through whatever in a blink of an eye..
2 - same with Mail
3 - i downloaded a couple of bigger videos from YouTube ( 1.something up to 2.5GB..) threw then in the Trash selected Secure Empty Trash as i like doing &....it either empties it in a sec OR ( most likely.. ) it hangs for a LOOOONG time before anything happens
sometimes it goes up to half the progress bar ( or 1/3 or 2/3.. ) & then it just hangs in there - 10, 15, 20 or more minutes
other times it just DOES NOT budge & i'm forced to re-launch the Finder - if i try to Sec. Empty again sometimes it gives me ''...bla, bla can't empty because X, Y, Z is being used, etc..'' yet as far as i can determine NOTHING is using the file i'm trying to get rid of ?..
to make sure everything is OK i repaired permissions w/ D.Utility often, re-start, got a few more large videos ( these seem to be the ones that are REALLY difficult to get rid of.. ) trash them, try emptying the Trash &.....AGAIN the same thing !?
ran a full Onyx ''cycle'' to clean, re-set, re-whatever it is it does & after clicking on empty the Trash i got this message, despite the Trash can being empty :
& this goes on & on & it's getting REAL OLD, REAL FAST !
now, i've looked in the Forum & found a few complaints about difficulties emptying Mountain Lion's Trash but after reading many, it didn't look like they are similar cases to mine hence my posting this..
just out of curiosity, i ''loaded'' the Trash before i started writing this, slected Sec. Empty Trash at exactly 10.51 PM & at 11.37 PM it managed to secure empty about 6.5GB of video files...
before i forget, a message i get a lot when repairing permissions is this :
Group differs on “Library/Preferences/com.apple.alf.plist”; should be 80; group is 0. - this one comes up A LOT MORE than anything else...
the only things i can think of as capable of perhaps ''troubling'' my machineare these :
1 - the Sideffects thingy ( for colored icons on my Finder windows sidebar.. ) found here - http://macmatrix.blogspot.pt/p/sideeffects.html but i tried uninstalling it ( AppZapper, etc.. ) repair permissions, re-start, run computer& nothing changed so i installed it again..
2 - i have set up a Raid1 array w/ D.Utility for Time Machine duty, using 2 Western Digitall My Book USB drives, each w/ 2TB capacity connected via a Logitech powered 4 port Premium USB hub, which were erased, formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled), the works...
3 - a couple of FW800 NewerTech Guardian Maximus enclosures connected to my iMac's single FW800 output, each loaded w/ 2 X Western Digital 3TB Caviar Green drives which i have been assured by OWC would work fine ( & did in Lion.. )
one is for my iTunes Library & the other for all my DVD collection
4 - a custom Dock made w/ DragThing, which i also un-installed, tried, everything was the same so i re-installed
among all this upheaval a few things HAVE improved their behavior :
A - iPhoto now launches almost instantly despite i have a few tens of thousands of large size photos in it !? before it took AGES to launch & to shut down & now it's very zippy, even while editing photos
B - same w/ Preview - it used to hang endlessly while doing eidts to multiple images for example, now it doesn't
C - printing & scanning w/ my HP C6180 Photosmart is FLAWLESS - before it could get ''temperamental''
at this point i have been going around so much trying to troubleshoot what/where/how/etc...i've kindda lost my North so to speak
i would be EXTREMELY grateful if anyone would be so kind as to drive me through a process of TRYING to determine WHAT is causing this MOST FRUSTRATING behavior
last but not least i ran a full ClamXav scan of the whole computer + external drives : EVERYTHING was OK
sorry for my VERY long post
that looks good, i've run it & this is the result :
Hardware Information:
iMac - model: iMac11,1
1 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 4 cores
16 GB RAM
System Software:
OS X 10.8 (12A269) - Uptime: 0 days 8:8
Disk Information:
ST31000528ASQ disk0 : (1 TB)
disk0s1 (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) /: 999.21 GB (822.06 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
OPTIARC DVD RW AD-5680H
USB Information:
Apple Inc. iPhone
Western Digital My Book 1110 2 TB
disk3s1 (disk3s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
disk3s2 (disk3s2) <not mounted>: 2 TB
Boot OS X (disk3s3) <not mounted>: 134.2 MB
Apple Internal Memory Card Reader
Apple Inc. BRCM2046 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
HP Photosmart C6100 series
Western Digital My Book 2 TB
disk2s1 (disk2s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
disk2s2 (disk2s2) <not mounted>: 2 TB
Boot OS X (disk2s3) <not mounted>: 134.2 MB
APC Back-UPS ES 700 FW:829.D2 .I USB FW:D2
Apple Inc. Built-in iSight
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
FireWire Information:
NewerTech GMAX 800mbit - 800mbit max
disk1s1 (disk1s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
THE MOVIES (disk1s2) /Volumes/THE MOVIES: 3 TB (402.7 GB free)
Kernel Extensions:
at.obdev.nke.LittleSnitch Version: 3862
Problem System Launch Daemons:
[failed] com.apple.backupd-auto.plist
Problem System Launch Agents:
[failed] com.apple.afpstat.plist
Launch Daemons:
[loaded] at.obdev.littlesnitchd.plist
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist
[not loaded] com.bjango.istatlocaldaemon.plist
Launch Agents:
[loaded] at.obdev.LittleSnitchUIAgent.plist
[loaded] com.bjango.istatlocal.plist
[loaded] net.culater.SIMBL.Agent.plist
User Launch Agents:
User Login Items:
iTunesHelper
SIMBL Agent
PowerboxInjector
RelaunchFinder
DragThing
3rd Party Preference Panes:
Flash Player
Flip4Mac WMV
Perian
Internet Plug-ins:
Flash Player.plugin
FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin
Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.plugin
iPhotoPhotocast.plugin
JavaAppletPlugin.plugin
QuickTime Plugin.plugin
Silverlight.plugin
SpeedDownload Browser Plugin.plugin
User Internet Plug-ins:
FolxNetscapePlugIn.plugin
Bad Fonts:
None
Top Processes:
431.0 % HandBrake
43.2 % find
4.5 % JavaApplicationStub
3.3 % WindowServer
1.8 % sandboxd
1.3 % EtreCheck
1.2 % mds
0.7 % iStatLocalDaemon
0.6 % fontd
0.3 % WebProcess
meanwhile the Terminal thing seems to be still looking for but not finding anything or if there was something it would already have found something ? you think i can close it or shall i leave it running for a while longer ?
& you see, this is what's most disconcerting about my computer's behavior, now for the past hour or so it has been TOTALLY devoid of ''gremlins'' - just like an electrical problem in a car/motorcycle when you reach your dealer to have it checked it never shows itself kinda thing....ARGGG !!! very infuriating !...LOL...
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