Freezing on shutdown

I have a new MacBook Pro - it's my first mac. It's freezing on shutdown. When I shut it down, all icons disappear from the desktop so all you can see is the wallpaper/backdrop. Then it freezes. This has been happening at night - I have left it on hoping it would shut down or go into sleep mode. In the morning the battery has apparently died because it won't start up unless I plug it in. (It had a fully charged battery the night before.) What is the cause of this and what should I do? I searched these forums but couldn't find this exact question.
This MacBook is about 3 weeks old and as my first mac, I am finding it disappointing in its reliability. This is the third issue I've had - the first being an apparently corrupted file in my library that filled up my entire hard drive on my third day of ownership. So I could use some encouragement!
Thanks in advance.

This is a tangent but I just used whatsize and there is some file in my library under "filesync" that is called "Bands" and is taking up 90 gigs. I have no idea what this is.
3 days after I bought this computer a similar thing happened and I took it to the Genius Bar. They said a file in "filesync" was corrupted - it was taking up 70 gigs and had to be deleted. It looks like this is happening again and I am really frustrated with this computer!

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Please continue here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=891763
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