Frustratingly slow performance Mavericks on Macbook Pro
Hi
I have a mid 2009 Macbook Pro with Mavericks installed. Lately I have been getting frustrating spinning beachball hangs, apps crashing (particularly mail and aperture), boot times of 5 minutes plus, and shutdown times as long as 7 minutes. I've read through as many forum posts as I can manage and not one seems to solve the problem. Looking through the system.log today I have noticed a few error messages that may or may not be contributing, but cannot work out what they mean or what to do about them. Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated. I am thinking about upgrading the internal 250GB HDD to either a 1TB hybrid SSHD or a 250GB SSD, and obviously doing a clean install. My only worry at the moment is losing lots of really importan data and being able to recover it from Time Machine.
An extract from the system.log is below. My concerns are about the CGContextErase function, the One of the two will be used error, and the FT Message Delivery Failed errors. All of these are happenning around the time the machine is unresponsive.
Thanks in advance
Chris.
Mar 17 10:45:14 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local com.apple.SecurityServer[15]: Killing auth hosts
Mar 17 10:45:14 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local com.apple.SecurityServer[15]: Session 100015 destroyed
Mar 17 10:45:14 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local com.apple.SecurityServer[15]: Session 100018 created
Mar 17 10:45:16 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local Planbook[420]: The function `CGContextErase' is obsolete and will be removed in an upcoming update. Unfortunately, this application, or a library it uses, is using this obsolete function, and is thereby contributing to an overall degradation of system performance.
Mar 17 10:45:25 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local sandboxd[323] ([420]): Planbook(420) deny file-issue-extension /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Microsoft Word.app
Mar 17 10:45:40 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local Microsoft Word[429]: The function `CGContextErase' is obsolete and will be removed in an upcoming update. Unfortunately, this application, or a library it uses, is using this obsolete function, and is thereby contributing to an overall degradation of system performance.
Mar 17 10:45:42 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local Microsoft Word[429]: Failed to read a font collection file at /Users/chrisloneragan/Library/FontCollections/Web-safe Mac:Windows.collection. Recommend manually removing the file.
Mar 17 10:45:59 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local Console[436]: setPresentationOptions called with NSApplicationPresentationFullScreen when there is no visible fullscreen window; this call will be ignored.
Mar 17 10:45:59 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local Console[436]: The function `CGContextErase' is obsolete and will be removed in an upcoming update. Unfortunately, this application, or a library it uses, is using this obsolete function, and is thereby contributing to an overall degradation of system performance.
Mar 17 10:46:52 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro kernel[0]: **** [IOBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport][SuspendDevice] -- Resume -- suspendDeviceCallResult = 0x0000 (kIOReturnSuccess) -- 0x4c00 ****
Mar 17 10:46:55 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro kernel[0]: virtual bool IOUserEthernetController::setLinkState(bool): status=1 mCurrentMedium=0xffffff801aec8580
Mar 17 10:46:59 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local configd[18]: network changed: v4(en2+:172.20.10.3) DNS+ Proxy+ SMB
Mar 17 10:47:02 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local apsd[79]: Unrecognized leaf certificate
Mar 17 10:47:03 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro Creative Cloud[283]: objc[283]: Class HTTPHeader is implemented in both /Applications/Utilities/Adobe Creative Cloud/ACC/C3ContainerBL.dylib and /Applications/Utilities/Adobe Creative Cloud/AppsPanel/AppsPanelIL.dylib. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
Mar 17 10:47:03 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro Creative Cloud[283]: objc[283]: Class ProxyManager is implemented in both /Applications/Utilities/Adobe Creative Cloud/ACC/C3ContainerBL.dylib and /Applications/Utilities/Adobe Creative Cloud/AppsPanel/AppsPanelIL.dylib. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
Mar 17 10:47:05 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local AirPlayUIAgent[313]: 2014-03-17 10:47:05.120203 AM [AirPlayUIAgent] Changed PIN pairing: no
Mar 17 10:47:05 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local AirPlayUIAgent[313]: 2014-03-17 10:47:05.143376 AM [AirPlayUIAgent] Changed PIN pairing: no
Mar 17 10:47:06 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro Creative Cloud[283]: objc[283]: Class HTTPHeader is implemented in both /Applications/Utilities/Adobe Creative Cloud/ACC/C3ContainerBL.dylib and /Applications/Utilities/Adobe Application Manager/UWA/UpdaterCore.framework/UpdaterCore. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
Mar 17 10:47:06 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro Creative Cloud[283]: objc[283]: Class ProxyManager is implemented in both /Applications/Utilities/Adobe Creative Cloud/ACC/C3ContainerBL.dylib and /Applications/Utilities/Adobe Application Manager/UWA/UpdaterCore.framework/UpdaterCore. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
Mar 17 10:47:15 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local Adobe CEF Helper[456]: Internals of CFAllocator not known; out-of-memory failures via CFAllocator will not result in termination. http://crbug.com/45650
Mar 17 10:47:17 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local Adobe CEF Helper[459]: Internals of CFAllocator not known; out-of-memory failures via CFAllocator will not result in termination. http://crbug.com/45650
Mar 17 10:47:17 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local sandboxd[323] ([222]): ubd(222) deny file-read-data /.DocumentRevisions-V100/PerUID/501/68/com.apple.documentVersions/BTEC Unit 41 Assignments.590d0ee2-ca19-479e-b059-01e580727142.numbers/Index.zip
Mar 17 10:47:21 --- last message repeated 6 times ---
Mar 17 10:47:21 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local Adobe CEF Helper[459]: The function `CGFontSetShouldUseMulticache' is obsolete and will be removed in an upcoming update. Unfortunately, this application, or a library it uses, is using this obsolete function, and is thereby contributing to an overall degradation of system performance.
Mar 17 10:48:03 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local com.apple.SecurityServer[15]: Session 100020 created
Mar 17 10:48:17 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local identityservicesd[250]: [Warning] FTMessageDelivery failed! (HTTP Status Code: 0) Error (NSURLErrorDomain:-1003): A server with the specified hostname could not be found. https://service1.ess.apple.com/WebObjects/QueryService.woa/wa/query?uri=tel%3A%2 B447799017325
Mar 17 10:48:27 --- last message repeated 3 times ---
Mar 17 10:48:27 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local Creative Cloud[283]: CFNetwork SSLHandshake failed (-9806)
Mar 17 10:48:32 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local identityservicesd[250]: [Warning] FTMessageDelivery failed! (HTTP Status Code: 0) Error (NSURLErrorDomain:-1003): A server with the specified hostname could not be found. https://service1.ess.apple.com/WebObjects/QueryService.woa/wa/query?uri=tel%3A%2 B447799017325
Mar 17 10:48:37 --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Mar 17 10:48:37 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local identityservicesd[250]: [Warning] FTMessageDelivery failed! (HTTP Status Code: 0) Error (NSURLErrorDomain:-1003): A server with the specified hostname could not be found. https://service1.ess.apple.com/WebObjects/QueryService.woa/wa/query?uri=tel%3A%2 B447891187123
Mar 17 10:48:41 --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Mar 17 10:48:41 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local identityservicesd[250]: [Warning] FTMessageDelivery failed! (HTTP Status Code: 0) Error (NSURLErrorDomain:-1003): A server with the specified hostname could not be found. https://service1.ess.apple.com/WebObjects/QueryService.woa/wa/query?uri=tel%3A%2 B447799017325
Mar 17 10:48:43 --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Mar 17 10:48:43 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local identityservicesd[250]: [Warning] FTMessageDelivery failed! (HTTP Status Code: 0) Error (NSURLErrorDomain:-1003): A server with the specified hostname could not be found. https://service1.ess.apple.com/WebObjects/QueryService.woa/wa/query?uri=tel%3A%2 B447891187123
Mar 17 10:48:50 --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Mar 17 10:48:50 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local com.apple.SecurityServer[15]: Session 100021 created
Mar 17 10:48:50 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local com.apple.SecurityServer[15]: Killing auth hosts
Mar 17 10:48:50 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local com.apple.SecurityServer[15]: Session 100020 destroyed
Mar 17 10:48:50 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local identityservicesd[250]: [Warning] FTMessageDelivery failed! (HTTP Status Code: 0) Error (NSURLErrorDomain:-1003): A server with the specified hostname could not be found. https://service1.ess.apple.com/WebObjects/QueryService.woa/wa/query?uri=tel%3A%2 B447799017325
Mar 17 10:48:51 --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Mar 17 10:48:51 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local identityservicesd[250]: [Warning] FTMessageDelivery failed! (HTTP Status Code: 0) Error (NSURLErrorDomain:-1003): A server with the specified hostname could not be found. https://service1.ess.apple.com/WebObjects/QueryService.woa/wa/query?uri=tel%3A%2 B447891187123
Mar 17 10:49:01 --- last message repeated 3 times ---
Mar 17 10:49:01 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local identityservicesd[250]: [Warning] FTMessageDelivery failed! (HTTP Status Code: 0) Error (NSURLErrorDomain:-1003): A server with the specified hostname could not be found. https://service1.ess.apple.com/WebObjects/QueryService.woa/wa/query?uri=tel%3A%2 B447799017325
Mar 17 10:49:24 --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Mar 17 10:49:24 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local identityservicesd[250]: [Warning] FTMessageDelivery failed! (HTTP Status Code: 0) Error (NSURLErrorDomain:-1003): A server with the specified hostname could not be found. https://service1.ess.apple.com/WebObjects/QueryService.woa/wa/query?uri=tel%3A%2 B447891187123
Mar 17 10:49:24 --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Mar 17 10:49:24 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local identityservicesd[250]: [Warning] FTMessageDelivery failed! (HTTP Status Code: 0) Error (NSURLErrorDomain:-1003): A server with the specified hostname could not be found. https://service1.ess.apple.com/WebObjects/QueryService.woa/wa/query?uri=tel%3A%2 B447799017325
Mar 17 10:49:34 --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Mar 17 10:49:34 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local com.apple.SecurityServer[15]: Session 100022 created
Mar 17 10:49:34 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local com.apple.SecurityServer[15]: Killing auth hosts
Mar 17 10:49:34 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local com.apple.SecurityServer[15]: Session 100021 destroyed
Mar 17 10:49:34 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local identityservicesd[250]: [Warning] FTMessageDelivery failed! (HTTP Status Code: 0) Error (NSURLErrorDomain:-1003): A server with the specified hostname could not be found. https://service1.ess.apple.com/WebObjects/QueryService.woa/wa/query?uri=tel%3A%2 B447891187123
Mar 17 10:49:37 --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Mar 17 10:49:37 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local identityservicesd[250]: [Warning] FTMessageDelivery failed! (HTTP Status Code: 0) Error (NSURLErrorDomain:-1003): A server with the specified hostname could not be found. https://service1.ess.apple.com/WebObjects/QueryService.woa/wa/query?uri=tel%3A%2 B447799017325
Mar 17 10:49:46 --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Mar 17 10:49:46 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local identityservicesd[250]: [Warning] FTMessageDelivery failed! (HTTP Status Code: 0) Error (NSURLErrorDomain:-1003): A server with the specified hostname could not be found. https://service1.ess.apple.com/WebObjects/QueryService.woa/wa/query?uri=tel%3A%2 B447891187123
Mar 17 10:49:51 --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Mar 17 10:49:51 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local identityservicesd[250]: [Warning] FTMessageDelivery failed! (HTTP Status Code: 0) Error (NSURLErrorDomain:-1003): A server with the specified hostname could not be found. https://service1.ess.apple.com/WebObjects/QueryService.woa/wa/query?uri=tel%3A%2 B447799017325
Mar 17 10:49:52 --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Mar 17 10:49:52 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local Safari[469]: The function `CGContextErase' is obsolete and will be removed in an upcoming update. Unfortunately, this application, or a library it uses, is using this obsolete function, and is thereby contributing to an overall degradation of system performance.
Mar 17 10:49:58 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local identityservicesd[250]: [Warning] FTMessageDelivery failed! (HTTP Status Code: 0) Error (NSURLErrorDomain:-1003): A server with the specified hostname could not be found. https://service1.ess.apple.com/WebObjects/QueryService.woa/wa/query?uri=tel%3A%2 B447891187123
Mar 17 10:50:05 --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Mar 17 10:50:05 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local com.apple.SecurityServer[15]: Session 100023 created
Mar 17 10:50:05 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local com.apple.SecurityServer[15]: Killing auth hosts
Mar 17 10:50:05 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local com.apple.SecurityServer[15]: Session 100022 destroyed
Mar 17 10:50:05 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local identityservicesd[250]: [Warning] FTMessageDelivery failed! (HTTP Status Code: 0) Error (NSURLErrorDomain:-1003): A server with the specified hostname could not be found. https://service1.ess.apple.com/WebObjects/QueryService.woa/wa/query?uri=tel%3A%2 B447799017325
Mar 17 10:50:13 --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Mar 17 10:50:13 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local Safari[469]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary on line 3. Parsing will be abandoned. Break on _CFPropertyListMissingSemicolon to debug.
Mar 17 10:50:43 --- last message repeated 9 times ---
Mar 17 10:50:47 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local Safari[469]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary on line 3. Parsing will be abandoned. Break on _CFPropertyListMissingSemicolon to debug.
Mar 17 10:50:47 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local Safari[469]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary on line 3. Parsing will be abandoned. Break on _CFPropertyListMissingSemicolon to debug.
Mar 17 10:51:11 --- last message repeated 8 times ---
Mar 17 10:51:11 chris-loneragans-macbook-pro.local com.apple.WebKit.Networking[471]: CFNetwork SSLHandshake failed (-9806)
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Step 1
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Enter the name of the crashed application or process in the Filter text field. Select the messages from the time of the last crash, if any. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.
Step 2
In the Console window, look under User Diagnostic Reports (not "Diagnostic and Usage Messages") for crash reports related to the crashed process. The report name starts with the name of the process, and ends with ".crash". Select the most recent report and post the entire contents — again, the text, not a screenshot. In the interest of privacy, I suggest that, before posting, you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if it’s present (it may not be.) Please don’t post other kinds of diagnostic report — they're very long and not helpful.
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My daughter has had her Razr for about 9 months now. About two weeks ago she picked up her phone in the morning on her way to school when she noticed two cracks, both starting at the camera lens. One goes completely to the bottom and the other goes sharply to the side. She has never dropped it and me and my husband went over it with a fine tooth comb. We looked under a magnifying glass and could no find any reason for the glass to crack. Not one ding, scratch or bang. Our daughter really takes good care of her stuff, but we still wanted to make sure before we sent it in for repairs. Well we did and we got a reply from Motorola with a picture of the cracks saying this was customer abuse and that it is not covered under warranty. Even though they did not find any physical damage to back it up. Well I e-mailed them back and told them I did a little research and found pages of people having the same problems. Well I did not hear from them until I received a notice from Fed Ex that they were sending the phone back. NOT FIXED!!! I went to look up why and guess what there is no case open any more for the phone. It has been wiped clean. I put in the RMA # it comes back not found, I put in the ID #, the SN# and all comes back not found. Yet a day earlier all the info was there. I know there is a lot more people like me and all of you, but they just don't want to be bothered so they pay to have it fix, just to have it do it again. Unless they have found the problem and only fixing it on a customer pay only set up. I am furious and will not be recommending this phone to anyone. And to think I was considering this phone for my next up grade! NOT!!!!
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I just checked to see if the update to OS X Yosemite 10.10.1 solved any of the issues outlined in my previous post, and to my dismay, nothing has changed -- all of the previous problems persist.
My iMac (8) -- it's renamed itself eight times since the recent troubleshoot with the Apple tech rep -- shows up as a shared device in Finder on my MacBook Pro, but when I click on it, I cannot establish a connection using "Connect As". So I've attempted to connect using the menu "Go/Connect to Server...", using both (alternately) the iMac's name and IP address, to no avail. I get a message which reads: "There was a problem connecting to the server 'Peter's iMac (8)'. This server may not exist or it is unavailable at this time. Check the server name or IP address, check your network connection, and then try again."
Here's what I know:
The server -- Peter's iMac (8) does exist;
The server -- Peter's iMac (8) is available at this time;
The server name -- Peter's iMac (8) -- is correct, as specified in the system sharing preferences;
The server IP address is correct, as specified in the system sharing preferences;
The network connection is active when I attempt to connect.
I'm convinced the problems stem directly from the OS X Yosemite update. None of this was ever remotely an issue in the previous OS X's -- any of them. This is maddening! What can be done? Apple?? Anyone??? -
Installed Mavericks on MacBook Pro. Now my Contacts has no records. Contacts on my iPad are OK. How can I repopulate my MacBook Contents file from my iPad?.
rbargeThis is all just a partial answer since details will depend upon how you want to do it.
Post by Zevoneer: iPod media recovery options - https://discussions.apple.com/message/11624224 - this is an older post and many of the links are also for old posts, so bear this in mind when reading them.
Commercial software utility for transferring songs from i-device to Mac - http://www.fadingred.com/senuti/
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1848 - just media purchased from iTunes Store
You'll need to get it all onto one iTunes collection on your Mac Pro, then sync the devices to that. iTunes only lets you transfer purchases from a device, otherwise you have to use third party software.
I guess you could also look into getting iTunes Match. -
Application very slow to installing on macbook pro , why?
application very slow to installing on macbook pro , why?
Spider.007 is correct, here is my current setup:
NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT
sda
├─sda1 vfat EFI 70D6-1701
├─sda2 hfsplus Macintosh SSD 956c7127-1bde-348b-9fb5-1b79cd05a4ad
├─sda3 hfsplus Recovery HD 4fa05f80-9ed0-3fc2-82eb-dbd6e4bd4b12
└─sda4 ext4 f741fbee-f3b0-4a95-b9b8-f35f4b4c28af /
sr0
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After installing Mavericks my MacBook Pro and my MacMini can't shut down, only a grey screen and finish. Must be killed by the power button. Why?
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Ausserdem startet die Macs wesentlich langsamer als mit OS X 10.6.8.same here... sometimes it works, most of the time it doesn't!!
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Legally you should delete the app.
Your Mac should have come with the iLife apps pre-installed, why did he do that?
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