Multiple Yosemite woes: programs won't start, can't enter Time Machine, etc.

Hello Linc et al.,
I have been having Yosemite problems similar to those discussed elsewhere (e.g. iMac 27" late 2013 and Yosemite) (albeit with 10.10.1, Mid-2010 MacBook Pro): can't enter Time Machine, although it seems to be backing up; programs including Illustrator, EndNote, and Boinc don't start, or only after an hour or two (others, including Microsoft Office, seem okay). They will start normally in safe mode, but not for a newly created user. Many permission repairs carried out (seems okay except for a couple recurring printer-related messages), disk is okay, PRAM and SMC reset. Spent some time with various tech support, so most of these have been tried several times.
The solution here com.apple.xpc.launchd & com.apple.mdworker.bundles pollute logs with errors worked through one restart - there were two mystery uids, owning many files - but not through a second.
I have followed the permission repair procedure from another post (discussions.apple.com/message/27015992#27015992); the initial return was 639, and now it is 0. Restarted since then, nothing appeared to change.
Below is what I get from the test suggested in the first thread mentioned, I hope there is something informative here! I'll study it myself, but don't know what might or might not matter.
Thanks,
Barbara
Start time: 11:29:32 12/05/14
Model Identifier: MacBookPro6,2
System Version: OS X 10.10.1 (14B25)
Kernel Version: Darwin 14.0.0
Time since boot: 29 minutes
SATA
   HGST HTS541515A9E630
Diagnostic reports
   2014-12-05 mdworker32 crash x8
   2014-12-05 mdworker crash x14
   2014-12-05 plugin-container crash x2
   2014-12-05 xfig crash
Log
   Dec 5 11:14:35 com.adobe.illustrator.43768: Service exited due to signal: Terminated: 15
   Dec 5 11:14:38 WARNING: The Gestalt selector gestaltSystemVersion is returning 10.9.1 instead of 10.10.1. Use NSProcessInfo's operatingSystemVersion property to get correct system version number.
Call location:
   Dec 5 11:15:21 com.apple.quicklook: Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.quicklook
   Dec 5 11:16:39 en1: 802.11d country code set to 'US'.
   Dec 5 11:16:39 en1: Supported channels 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64 100 104 108 112 116 120 124 128 132 136 140 149 153 157 161 165
   Dec 5 11:18:25 com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent: The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.
   Dec 5 11:18:39 com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent: The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.
   Dec 5 11:18:41 com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent: The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.
   Dec 5 11:18:47 com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent: The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.
   Dec 5 11:18:51 com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent: The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.
   Dec 5 11:18:58 com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent: The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.
   Dec 5 11:19:04 Recieved EWS error: Error Domain=MFEWSErrorDomain Code=117 "Id is malformed." UserInfo=0x608000e6b4c0 {NSLocalizedDescription=Id is malformed.}
   Dec 5 11:19:04 Recieved EWS error: Error Domain=MFEWSErrorDomain Code=117 "Id is malformed." UserInfo=0x608000c6ba00 {NSLocalizedDescription=Id is malformed.}
   Dec 5 11:19:11 BUG in libdispatch client: dispatch_mig_server: mach_msg() failed (ipc/send) invalid memory - 0x1000000c
   Dec 5 11:19:11 CoreText CopyFontsForRequest received mig IPC error (FFFFFFFFFFFFFECC) from font server
   Dec 5 11:19:11 CoreText CopyFontsForRequest received mig IPC error (FFFFFFFFFFFFFECC) from font server
   Dec 5 11:22:58 Error: execSQLStatement:onConnection:toCompletionWithRetry - SQL=COMMIT;, error-code=1, error-message=cannot commit - no transaction is active
   Dec 5 11:23:09 Error: execSQLStatement:onConnection:toCompletionWithRetry - SQL=COMMIT;, error-code=1, error-message=cannot commit - no transaction is active
   Dec 5 11:26:00 [com.apple.calendar.store.log.persistent.operation] [CalOperationQueue (x-coredata://UUID/ExchangePrincipal/p3): <CalExchangeSyncAccountOperation: 0x7f92fbe96830> failed with error Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1003 "A server with the specified hostname could not be found." UserInfo=0x7f92fe1cbfa0 {NSUnderlyingError=0x7f92fe3021f0 "A server with the specified hostname could not be found.", NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=https://EMAIL/ews/exchange.asmx, NSErrorFailingURLKey=https://EMAIL/ews/exchange.asmx, _kCFStreamErrorDomainKey=12, _kCFStreamErrorCodeKey=8, NSLocalizedDescription=A server with the specified hostname could not be found.}.]
   Dec 5 11:26:05 process WindowServer[150] caught causing excessive wakeups. Observed wakeups rate (per sec): 3474; Maximum permitted wakeups rate (per sec): 150; Observation period: 300 seconds; Task lifetime number of wakeups: 120600
   Dec 5 11:26:05 com.apple.ReportCrash.Root: Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.ReportCrash.DirectoryService
   Dec 5 11:26:06 Error loading dyld shared cache uuid UUID: 0x8
   Dec 5 11:29:38 process smcDiagnose[687] caught causing excessive wakeups. Observed wakeups rate (per sec): 49533; Maximum permitted wakeups rate (per sec): 150; Observation period: 300 seconds; Task lifetime number of wakeups: 48870
   Dec 5 11:29:38 com.apple.ReportCrash.Root: Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.ReportCrash.DirectoryService
kexts
org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxDrv (4.1.18)
org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxUSB (4.1.18)
Daemons
com.oracle.java.JavaUpdateHelper
   com.adobe.versioncueCS4
com.apple.installer.osmessagetracing
com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool
   com.cloudpath.maccmd
   com.mozy.backup
   net.cloudpath.HelperTool
   com.adobe.fpsaud
   com.bombich.ccchelper
org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx
Agents
com.adobe.CS4ServiceManager
uk.co.markallan.clamxav.freshclam
com.adobe.AdobeCreativeCloud
uk.co.markallan.clamxav.clamscan
   com.mozy.status
org.macosforge.xquartz.startx
   com.hp.printerAgent
com.oracle.java.Java-Updater
com.citrixonline.GoToMeeting.G2MUpdate
com.nvidia.CUDASoftwareUpdate
   com.adobe.ARM.UUID
com.google.keystone.user.agent
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/System/Library/StartupItems/CUDA/CUDA
/System/Library/StartupItems/CUDA/StartupParameters.plist
   /Library/StartupItems/HP IO/HP IO
   /Library/StartupItems/HP IO/Resources/version.plist
   /Library/StartupItems/HP IO/StartupParameters.plist
/Library/StartupItems/HWNetMgr/HWNetCfg
/Library/StartupItems/HWNetMgr/HWNetMgr
   /Library/StartupItems/HWNetMgr/StartupParameters.plist
/Library/StartupItems/HWPortDetect/HWPortCfg
/Library/StartupItems/HWPortDetect/HWPortDetect
/Library/StartupItems/HWPortDetect/StartupParameters.plist
/Library/StartupItems/OpenAFS/OpenAFS
   /Library/StartupItems/OpenAFS/StartupParameters.plist
/Library/StartupItems/rEFItBlesser/rEFItBlesser
/Library/StartupItems/rEFItBlesser/StartupParameters.plist
/Library/StartupItems/VirtualBox/StartupParameters.plist
/Library/StartupItems/VirtualBox/VirtualBox
App extensions
com.getdropbox.dropbox.garcon
Apps
   /Applications/Dropbox.app
Contents of /etc/hosts (checksum 2520548989)
127.0.0.1    localhost
127.0.0.1    [name removed]-macbook-pro.local.
255.255.255.255    broadcasthost
::1 localhost
fe80::1%lo0    localhost
Contents of /etc/ssh_config (checksum 1281775184)
    Host *
      SendEnv LANG LC_*
   Host *
XAuthLocation /opt/X11/bin/xauth
Contents of /etc/sshd_config (checksum 2518667249)
   SyslogFacility AUTHPRIV
AuthorizedKeysFile    .ssh/authorized_keys
   UsePrivilegeSeparation sandbox        # Default for new installations.
   AcceptEnv LANG LC_*
Subsystem    sftp    /usr/libexec/sftp-server
   XAuthLocation /opt/X11/bin/xauth
Contents of /Library/LaunchAgents/com.mozy.status.plist (checksum 976541881)
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<array>
<string>/Library/PreferencePanes/MozyHome.prefPane/Contents/Resources/MozyHome Status.app/Contents/MacOS/MozyHome Status</string>
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Contents of /Library/LaunchAgents/com.nvidia.CUDASoftwareUpdate.plist (checksum 572360244)
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<string>/usr/bin/open</string>
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<array>
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<string>-bgcheck</string>
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<key>StandardErrorPath</key>
<string>/dev/null</string>
<key>StandardOutPath</key>
<string>/dev/null</string>
<key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
<dict>
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<key>Minute</key>
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<key>Weekday</key>
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Contents of /Library/LaunchAgents/org.macosforge.xquartz.startx.plist (checksum 2451978492)
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<key>Sockets</key>
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Contents of /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.adobe.versioncueCS4.plist (checksum 1565429098)
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<string>wheel</string>
<key>Label</key>
<string>com.adobe.versioncueCS4</string>
<key>OnDemand</key>
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<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Version Cue CS4/Server/bin/VersionCueCS4d</string>
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<key>RunAtLoad</key>
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<key>ServiceDescription</key>
<string>Adobe Version Cue CS4</string>
<key>UserName</key>
<string>root</string>
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Contents of /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.bombich.ccchelper.plist (checksum 801575064)
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<key>RunAtLoad</key>
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Contents of /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.cloudpath.maccmd.plist (checksum 810825832)
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Non of my video links seem to work; bbcipalyer keeps on loading filmon goes black website news programs won't start, i downloaded puffin player and through that films and newssites work , youtube won't part etc etc. I have a ipad2

Non of my video links seem to work; bbcipalyer keeps on loading filmon goes black website news programs won't start, i downloaded puffin player and through that films and newssites work , youtube won't part etc etc. I have a ipad2

HT2729 When I hit camera then try 'Video' the program won't start just photos. What's wrong?

When I hit camera then try 'Video' the program won't start just photos. What's wrong?

Sounds to me like you are trying to tap on the word VIDEO.
To change to video you don't tap on the word VIDEO. Instead, you drag the centre of the screen down. That will change the option from PHOTO to VIDEO.
Of course, to go back to PHOTO or to SQUARE you drag the centre of the screen up.

Acrobat Pro for Mac won't start, even after restarting the machine. Any suggestions?

Acrobat Pro for Mac won't start, even after restarting the machine. Any suggestions?

Hi Patrick,
Can you please mention the version of Adobe Acrobat that you are using and on what OS version. Also mention whether this problem has started recently and was running fine earlier or is it a fresh install and has never worked for you.
Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling the product after you started facing this issue.
-Shashi

Can't use time machine star wars interface in Yosemite

Since upgrading to Yosemite I can't get the standard user interface to work with time machine. When I enter time machine it looks normal (although there aren't any stars anymore), but there aren't any file to restore. I can scroll back in time, but there's nothing there.
If I just open the time machine disk in finder I can click into the backups folder and access the various date/time stamped folders and access and restore files that way just fine. Did the old star wars interface go away with Yosemite? If so, what's the purpose of the Enter Time Machine menu option now?

Just for others who see this page but the highlighted answer doesn't work: I have a MCB with a second, external mornitor - when I tried to access the backups via the finder window on the 2nd monitor, TM didn't work. When I moved the Finder window to the laptop's own display and accessed TM from that display, TM worked fine.

Can't use time machine due to corruptness even after reinstalling snow lepoard how to fix?

Yes, someone stole my original apple id in 2009. Now i bought another iphone in late 2012 , Created another apple id due to Apple not being able to help me access my original apple id. Which now since 2 months ago someone or company, or bank stole my second apple id. My iphone 4s with Sprint has no celluar connection supossedly due to no internet that is what sprint said but I looked it up on apple and it stated that there is a cellluar block on my iphone4s.
So I guess I will have to go in person to Sprint so they can explain that to me and why I was lied to on the phone earlier. Back to my 2nd stolen apple id that I registered my macbook,airport express router, and iphone4s and apple TV. So who ever stole this apple id obviously took over all my mac products I had registered to it. Enough about that back to trying to use time machine....Everytime i do, my macbook just starts acting all screwed up. I bought a WD external drive for Mac but I believe someone must have claimed it too. Since there is 75gb on it that I can't access. Kind of like my Macbook stating I can't save or have access to the Root . That is another thing after reinstalling snow lepoard which works great until I update it. Which is a problem because everytime I update it to 10.6.8 All the permissions are changed the graphics look horrible and I get redirected so bad its not funny. The email account is a joke. Also I notice my stationary for email is in Spanish not sure why and on Iworks the document samples are also in spanish. Now I dont speak any other language except ENGLISH AND HAVE LIVED IN UNITEDSTATES MY ENTIRE LIFE. But my internet provider Fibrant which swears they are local shows it is in the UK also when i try to access my email for that account it states it is not safe , certificate is expired and someone might be trying to impersonate my server. Needless to say it is getting old. I had this same problem with Timewarner and Att except att would just remove my ethernet driver then laugh when i would call and ask what the problem was. Then later I find out when I had DSL that somehow the phone number they had listed was change to being a digit off from my DSL account which again they laughed and thought it was funny. Enough about that. I need to know how to get access to my Apple id. I gave up on the first one but the second one I did have access to until I registered all my apple products. What is up with every thing I have with a usb port being corrupt. I have also notice anywhere in town where I live my phone is English until I come home it is arabic,hebrew , spanish any language except English. Shouldn't I be safer in my home??????????????? But I am not I am safer in town or anywhere but my home. EVerything states international in my home and this has been going on since 2009.....No one can tell me why. My power from Duke reads that OTHER Is costing me the most $$ every month what ????? This is a joke. But yet no one can tell me why or how to fix the problem. Going on 5 years , I have been cut off from everyone I know. Can't keep contacts on a phone or email accts. They all disappear. All so I am in Eastern time zone but all my computers and tv seems to think I am in pacific timezone. No one can fix this problem either. So if anyone has any suggestions on how to fix at least one of my 5 year problems I would be grateful. I try to create a new email account but either I am locked out right after or someone turns it into an alias account which doesn't help me. When I was layed off in 2009-2010 I went back to school/college. Needless to say they took my School email acct too.
Back to my iphone 4s problem. My icloud email account gets alot of spam starting about 2 months ago and I can't stop it. I try to foward it to Spam @ me but it hasn't helped.My iphone can only connect to the internet with wifi. Sprint swears that there is not a block but according to apple there is.
About my macbook and apple ID how can I upgrade my Macbook from 10.6.3 to 10.6.8 with out all the permissions being changed and corrupt?? I have tried several times and it is always the same. I won't to connect my iphone to itunes to try to restore it but it states I have to update it to 10.6.8. When I do that my computer is alot worse off. Also how can I use TimeMachine with out my Macbook getting messed up? Something in my house has taken over anything with a usb port actually years ago and probably now something kept turning all my computers and phones or any electronic I owned it to a printer. I actually can't even use a printer in my home thats the funny thing. When I try to connect one when I used windows it stated I had no rights to it and couldn't use it. Since I switch to Mac not much better. When I try to print a test page it is all crooked and too small of half off the page. So it is upsetting that I can't use a printer but something keeps turning all my electronics into printers. If anyone knows how to fix this problem that would be great or to stop all this international stuff going on in my home that would be wonderful. I try to buy brand new pcs but soon as I start them up something had already taken over. This is with nothing electronic in my home on. Turn everything that a power switch off or unplugged it. Still I lost rights and access to anything in my home. Now if I am away from my home and try to use one of my laptops they look completely different and almost usable. Unfortunately I can't afford to move. I thought about it but I am still in bankruptcy and don't have the money. In the last 4 years I have not been able to reinstall in backups that I have created. Not sure why oh wait it states I have no rights to do that. My macbook I lost access to a week after I bought it and connected my iphone too. You don't know how many times I wish I had never backed my iphone 4s to my Macbook. Right after I could not log into it. Even used the disk to reset the password nope still couldn't log into it. Try to type the formula for resetting the password and nope it didn't work either.
Any suggestions would be appreciated---Need to gain access to my apple Id that would be a great start
Thanks, Suzanne
UnitedSTates
Eastern timezone

Didn't really read much at all of your post. Much, much too long, irrelevant details and & no paragraphs.
Can't use time machine due to corruptness
Post over here -> Mac OS X v10.6 - Snow Leopard forum
About my macbook and apple ID how can I upgrade my Macbook from 10.6.3 to 10.6.8 with out all the permissions being changed and corrupt??
Same as above. Post in the correct forum.
Need to gain access to my apple Id that would be a great start
-> http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5625

Can't load Time Machine backups

A few days ago (after getting my MacBook back from having the Logic card (?) changed) I started having problems with Time Machine. It wouldn't backup anymore. I figured it couldn't find my backup drive (an external FireWire hard drive), so I entered the Time Machine settings and selected the drive again.
Backups now work fine, but Time Machine wants me to do a 100% backup. It won't load the previous backups I have, for some reason.
When checking in Finder, in my Backups.backupdb contains two folders:
"Andreass MacBook" and "Andreass Macbook 2". The first folder is dated February 17, which is the day I turned my computer in. The second folder is up-to-date, most likely from when I re-selected the external hard drive.
I have checked that the computer name is still "Andreass MacBook", so this is not the problem.
Can anyone help me out?
/Andreas

yes: http://www.tombridge.com/rta/2008/01/after-the-apple.html

Multiple Yosemite woes: programs won't start, can't enter Time Machine, etc.

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