IMac keeps freezing, iMac keeps freezing

Hi. My 2008 24" iMac keeps freezing. Any suggestions on how to address

Your iMac is not a PPC, it is an Intel. That's why nobody responded to your request.
How big is the hard drive and how full is it?
Does the machine respond to command-option-escape when it freezes?

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I am using imovie 09 and when I try to play the scenes from my hd camcorder video freezes then voice freezes and bar keeps running to the end. Does anyone know how to fix this? PLEASE!

I am using imovie 09 and when I try to play the scenes from my hd camcorder the video freezes then audio freezes and the play bar keeps going with no video or audio. How Can I fix this??? PLEASE HELP!

Up front I would say the short answer is "no"... but the long answer is "sort of".
Replicators are part of the Fractal "arsenal" and Motion definitely has those, but I think you would be very hard pressed to come anywhere near the type of fractal imaging as in the Electric Sheep example.
I was able to squeeze the following out of Motion (the base element is a simple square), but by the time it got this far, Motion wouldn't play faster than about 1 frame every 5 or so seconds. At a certain point, you end up having to render movie files in order to see it in action (and that took Motion about 8 minutes for a 12 second project [09 iMac i7].) [If you're interested, I posted a short video of these here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6Fe_ydfAss. The segments are longer than 12 seconds each because these are designed to loop @12 seconds and each one was looped more than once.]
[You asked the question on the 4th - I "finished" this on the 7th... (I admit to several "false starts")]
If you have a faster mac than mine, you might be able to do more than this... and you really don't have access to the Maths that fractal apps have, so depending on your creativity for devising the "root" motif element you may (or may not) be disappointed in what Motion has to offer (it *will* try your patience!) If you would like to experiment anyway, I will explain some of the techniques I used for the above (which are, at best, rudimentary!) Once you get the basics down, you should be able to take off in your own directions.
HTH

Solved freezing iMac

I thought I would post a separate thread as my experience may get lost in all the other threads about freezing iMacs.
I too like a lot of other people here suffered (sorry to those still suffering) my iMac freezing. It was not tied down to doing anything in particular it just did it when it liked.
After 3 phone calls to apple support and being refered to the higher level of support twice I told apple support that with all due respect I am going round in circles talking to you and will be taking it to the apple store in Birmingham.
Believe it or not but it didn't freeze once in the apple store, I asked the genius after he had spent half an hour on it that if it freezes again it has to be hardware. He confirmed this (not too loudly I may add).
On getting back home the first thing it did was freeze. I phoned up apple care again (no. 4) and basically said to them in no uncertain terms that they will repair or replace it. After trying to fob me off to the higher level of support again, they came back and informed me that there was a footnote on my file that said send it straight for repair.
Well after 3 weeks (busy local repair centre) I received my iMac in full working order; repair diagnosis - new graphics card. It has now been a week and it has operated flawlessly.
To those of you still having problems I would suggest that you ignore emailing them as I have still yet to receive a reply. But just keep phoning them and eventually you will get you just deserves.
Sorry to make you sit and read this but I just wanted to tell my story.
Now, a very happy iMac user and fully updated.

Hi bud ive just posted a thread about just taking delivery of a new imac..
When did you get yours fixed.. and could it be.. that my imac may have the same or a newer batch of graphics cards that may fix it?
I will be seriously urinated off if i have to send back a brand new £1500 computer.. like all of us i guess!!
I knew i shouldnt of googled new aluminium imac problems.
On another note i've also got an oldschool g4 emac arriving (strange ebay deal..!) so who knows where my next reply could be from, it arrives a week today

My safari keeps crashing and/or freezing!

I have updated all my software but my Safari keeps crashing and/or freezing, so I have to force quit it. I don't know why it keeps doing this! Maybe I should start using a different internet browser? Help!

If Safari has just crashed, press the Report button on the CrashReporter dialog box to view the crash information.
Copy/paste the entire contents of the Crash Reporter window into your reply here.
If the crash report dialog does not appear or the crash is hard to reproduce, crash logs can be retrieved from the ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter> folder.
Post a crash report so we can try and help you.

My iMac's hard drive keeps filling up.

My iMac's hard drive keeps filling up. It has 320GB but only 1.37GB free! Other than Photos (3.43GB) and Songs (12.34GB), I have hardly anything installed on it. I recently got the message "Disc almost full...". Everytime I delete something (and I've delete a lot of things now) the free space relentlessly depletes. I have tried searching for files or programs that might be taking up a lot of space but can't find anything unusual or big enough to make a difference. I saw another comment from someone saying it was Mail failed downloads or something like that and suggested changing Finder preferences to "Other" to find the hidden files. But after doing this, I cannot find anything that looks bad. Look at the screenshot below, which shows what's taking up the disc space. How can the "Other" possibly be taking up 297.71GB when there's hardly anything on my mac that's bigger than 1GB!?!? Please help....

Do you own and backup any iDevices?
Anything else you have on this drive?
Any other places you store personal data?
You have any images or photos anywhere else?
You have a lot of documents?
Have you emptied OS X Trash icon recently.
iPhoto has its own trash the needs emptying.
Have you emptied the trash in Apple's Mail app?
Other things you can do to gain space.
Delete any old or no longer needed emails and/or archive older emails you want to save.
Look through your Documents folder and delete any type of old useless type files like "Read Me" type files.
Again, archive or delete any old documents you no longer use or immediately need.
Uninstall apps that you no longer use. If the app has a dedicated uninstaller, use it to completely uninstall the app. If the app has no uninstaller, then just drag it to the OS X Trash icon and empty the Trash.
Download an app called OnyX for your version of OS X.
When you install and launch it, let it do its thing initially, then go to the cleaning and maintenance tabs and run all of the processes in the tabs. Let OnyX clean out all web browser cache files, web browser histories, system cache files, delete old error log files.
Typically, iTunes and iPhoto libraries are the biggest users of HD space.
If you have any other large folders of personal data or projects?
Good Luck!

HT1277 i have set up an email account on my iPad, but i can not set up same account on iMac or iPhone , it keeps saying wrong password for account, any help please

i have set up an email account on my iPad, but i can not set up same account on iMac or iPhone , it keeps saying wrong password for account, any help please

i am trying to use my sky email on imac & iphone 4gs

I have a brand new iMac (late 2012) that keeps losing its internet connection

I have a brand new iMac (late 2012) that keeps losing its internet connection - like every five minutes. I have had it for three weeks. During the first two weeks, it worked flawlessly. However, just as the refund period ended - it became desktop dead weight. Suggestions?

did u ever get a solution to this? I have the same 2012 mines 27". It drops after sleep sometimes and can't find anything. Wifi. Connection to the Internet. I pull up network assistant it just gives me blank stares and restart everything. It doesn't even see the time machines and they are still there. I have it right now in full error and my iphones allowing me to see everything as connected and I'm posting here in the forum while my iMac cannot. Doesn't happen all the time. Not sure why it happens or what's goinng on with It. Works great and then sudden wifi failure to recognize.

How can i keep my imac downloading when it goes to sleep ?

how can i keep my imac downloading when it goes to sleep ?

Its possible to keep downloding files when the imac turn off the display ?

I have just got an iMac 21" and it continuously freezes when it goes to sleep and also when the internet is trying to load, i have tried three different browsers but it still does it (safari, google chrome and firefox), does anyone know what is wrong?

I have just got an iMac 21" and it continuously freezes when it goes to sleep and also when the internet is trying to load, i have tried three different browsers but it still does it (safari, google chrome and firefox), does anyone know what is wrong?

To fix the freezing when sleeping problem go to System Preferences>Energy Saver and set 'Computer Sleep' to 'Never'. It seems there is a problem for some with Bluetooth failing to wake after sleep. This fixes it 100% for me and many others on here, until Apple issue a software update to address it.
Not sure what to suggest on the internet problem. I assume you are connected and receive and send emails OK.
Edit: To try to troubleshoot the internet issue maybe try turning the Firewall off: System Preferences>Security & Privacy>Firewall tab.

I want to sell my iMac: delete all but keep original MS office pack (or re-install?)

I want to sell my iMac: delete all but keep original MS office pack (or re-install?)
BR Pia

We are having problems with the forum software (I can't see any new thread), so you are very lucky if somebody reads your question. Personally, the forum are near unusable for me now.
Respecting to that question, you want to delete everything but leave Office. Is this correct? If so, you will have to contact with Microsoft to see if it's legal to sell your Mac with Office installed > http://www.microsoft.com/mac/support I would not sell the Mac with Office installed.
To delete everything, you will have to erase the drive and reinstall OS X. Normally, you should turn off the Mac after reinstalling OS X, but in this case, the new owner won't have Office. On the contrary, if you install Office, the owner will have to use the Mac with your settings, so there will be other steps to follow

IMac running 10.7.4 freezes at software update

My iMac running 10.7.4, freezes at software update, how can I fix that?

Install 10.7.5 > http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1583

Time Machine freezes iMac

Time Machine was working fine with external LaCie 500 USB drive. Since installing Mac updates on 11/5/07, when I open Time Machine--2 finder windows open and the whole computer freezes. Is this because Fire Vault was turned on during the software update??

It happens to  me  on my iMac as well using Lacie Porsche 500Gb. Can't use Time Machine. Every time I try  to launch TM it goes till a point where only the cursor is alive but nothing else. Sometime is half the way to the full screen in TM, sometime stars start  to glow...and then the cold universe freeze.
But the problem I have now I had it before  when I was using a 2nd partition on my iMac
Exactly same problem.
Freezing all the time  using TM. I was afraid to have one of those iMac with freezing problem
but it never freezes any other time.
I guess using a Lacie is not the real problem. The problem is TM consuming probably too much memory. Spotlight doesn't remember I excluded TM disk from indexing and also Tm +Spotlight is deadly for Leopard.
Apple should do something and soon.
I feel I'm back at the time of classic, system 7: freezing and restarting,  freezing and restarting .

Will Apple ever address freezing iMacs

this is driving me nuts. i'm getting a run around.
will apple ADDRESS the freezing iMac issue properly? not some cheap software update that DOESN'T work.

Not likely. It is up to you to call AppleCare and request a repair under warranty. Info and phone numbers would have been included in the original box - the same are available online.
There will be no recall since there is not a hazardous condition.

HT2712 imac 10.7.4 keeps loosing wifi connection

imac 10.7.4 keeps loosing Wifi connection

Use the 5GHz connection as per page 6 on the following topic:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/18374179#18374179
Hope this helps.

HT3669 This software update keeps popping up almost everyday in my iMac 27 although I keep updating. Looks like the either the update is not happening on my machine or some other problem. Anyone else know of this?

This software update keeps popping up almost everyday in my iMac 27 although I keep updating. Looks like the either the update is not happening on my machine or some other problem. Anyone else know of this? Everytime I check for updates (I have the setting to manual check), an alert pops up in Apple store with the phrase "Lexmark Printer Software Update 2.11" available for download.
Is there a way I can turn off this notification for Printer updates until it is resolved? It is pretty annoying.
Thanks

Not sure this will help yet, having just noticed it myself, but you can now get the Lexmark driver 3.0 for download here: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1397
I'm going to give that a try to see if I stop getting the constant reminder for 2.11.

Just got the new iMac. The screen keeps jumping to the launch pad screen randomly when I am working in other applications. Please help.

Just got the new iMac. The screen keeps jumping to the launch pad screen randomly when I am working in other applications.
I have the magic mouse, don't know whether it is something to do with that? Any ideas?

If gumsie's suggestion isn't the answer, try logging into another account, like Guest, and see if you get the same behavior. You may need to clean the windows on the bottom of the mouse.

IMac keeps freezing, iMac keeps freezing

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