Numerous problems with Mavericks

Just upgraded to Maverics the other day and nothing but problems.
First of all, I get error code 50 which prevents me from writing to my external drive, which was quite fine under ML.
Now today, I want to burn some CD's into iTunes and my internal superdrive in my iMac will not recognize the Cd (or any DVD). It spins and then ejects.
I've spent hours looking for solutions to these issues. Apple should be ashamed of themselves, as it seems this is a widespread issue.
Has anyone got any advice to get the drive working again? I've tried the SMC reset and the PVRAM reset to no avail. I've tried the drutil commands in terminal and they don't work.
This is too suspicious to be a drive failure coincidentally with the Mavericks install given the hundred (if not thousands) of complaints online about the superdive problems after a mavericks install.
Thanks everyone!

The external is a Seagate 5GB Backup plus formatted to case sensitive entended journalled.
The DVD and CD both ejected under the guest account as well.When I insert a disc and do a drutil status command from terminal, all I get is the make and model of the drive with the message - No Media Inserted
I'm starting to wonder if this is by design given Apple's push to eliminating optical drives from all of their machines. The amount of people with this problem is really staggering.

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If you are still experiencing slow down issues, it maybe because of a few other reasons.
Our experience with OS X upgrades, and Mavericks is no exception, is that users have installed a combination of third party software and/or hardware that is incompatible and/or is outdated that causes many negative performance issues when upgrading to a new OS X version.
Your Mac's hard drive maybe getting full.
Do you run any antivirus software on your Mac? Commercial Antivirus software can slow down and negatively impact the normal operation of OS X.
Do you have apps like MacKeeper or any other maintenance apps like CleanMyMac 1 or 2, TuneUpMyMac or anything like these apps, installed on your Mac? These types of apps, while they appear to be helpful, can do too good a job of data "cleanup" causing the potential to do serious data corruption or data deletion and render a perfectly running OS completely dead and useless leaving you with a frozen, non-functional Mac.
Your Mac may have way too many applications launching at startup/login.
Your Mac may have old, non-updated or incompatible software installed.
Your Mac could have incompatible or outdated web browser extensions, plugins or add-ons.
Your Mac could have connected third party hardware that needs updated device drivers.
It would help us to help you if we could have some more technical info about your iMac.
If you so choose, please download, install and run Etrecheck.
Etrecheck was developed as a simple Mac diagnostic report tool by a regular Apple Support forum user and technical support contributor named Etresoft. Etrecheck is a small, unobstrusive app that compiles a static snapshot of your entire Mac hardware system and installed software.
This is a free app that has been honestly created to provided help in diagnosing issues with Macs running the new OS X 10.9 Mavericks.
It is not malware and can be safely downloaded and installed onto your Mac.
http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck
Copy/paste and post its report here in another reply thread so that we have a complete profile of your Mac's hardware and installed software so we can all help continue with your Mac performance issues.
Thank you.

TS3960 same problem with mavericks server app....tried additional ino solution did not work..any suggestions?

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Figured it out....went to server...settings...check allow remote administration using Server

Numerous Problems with New TV@nywhere Master

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3. Originally when I booted up, the radio tuner kicked in with a fuzzy feed, even though the software was not running. I had to run the software and exit it to make this stop. I believe this has resolved itself.
4. The MSIPVR software seems very unstable.
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I'm really shocked that MSI would release such a low-quality product as most of their other things are quite well made. I am looking to see if anyone has suggestions I can try to resolve this. I am interested in keeping this card if these can be fixed, but if not, I'll be returning this unit and picking up something from ATI instead. There's absolutely no reason for a card to be runnign this poorly and be in a shipping state.
Below are my system specifications should they be of any help:
AthlonXP 2800+ FSB333
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1024MB PQI PC3700 LL
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ATI RADEON 9600XT
Promise FastTrak TX2000
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Quote from: TunerFAQ on 17-February-05, 10:17:47
One more note (great stuff Stu:))... with regards to the remote... try to give it a slight extra push into the socket :D.
As stupid as it sounds, it happens :p... at least with me it did. I kept on trying to get the remote to work in the beginning, only to find out in the end that I hadn't played it ALL the way into the input socket. After the click, it worked.
I hope you can get the sound stuff working though. That's definitely a pain :(. I'm personally having issues with the original card and new software now... but yeah, I shall wait on your feedback first:).
OK, I've finally had some time to try out the various other suggestions that have been made and unfortunately, have met with no success. I tried changing my audio to CD In on my Audigy which still has the same sound problems. I also checked out the connection with the remote and it is in all the way. Still no go on that one. My power supply ratings are:
+5V: 35A Maximum/0A Minimum
+12V: 24A Maximum/0.8A Minimum
+3.3V: 28A Maximum/0A Minimum
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+5V SB: 2.0A Maximum/0A Minimum
At this point, I'm pretty much at my wits end. If anyone has other ideas, I can entertain them, but tomorrow if I don't have this up, I'll be taking it back. This card is demonstrating itself as just poorly designed and built. Thanks for your help all!

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There appear to be big problems with Mavericks Mail, particularly if it's used for Gmail. Have other users noticed that it slows to a crawl and can't reload the contents of a folder instantly....Is there a fix coming?

There is a large thread relating to Gmail, but nothing that sounds like that.
Nobody here knows what Apple is going to do.
You might try removing the Gmail account and then add it back in.

I have numerous problems with ISO7 such as:

I have numerous problems with ISO 7 such as:
When there is a new update I have to download it three times 1 for the computer, 1 for iphone and 1 for ipad this uses up all my GBs;
Syncing now does not update my ipad nor my iphone apps;
My apps now stay in the update folder until I open them all;
I am sure there are more issues but have not found them yet due to the above being my main issues. I do not know why Apple had to change it as this system is really making me rethink my product and am thinking of going to android.
Hopefully someone can help me.
Ciao
Diane

Diane ..
Updates can be downloaded directly on iOS devices. No need to use iTunes on your computer.
Tap Settings > General > Software Update
There have been no changes regarding downoading updates.

Are any patches in the works to correct problems with Maverick

Is apple trying to correct problems with Maverick?

Donald Morgan wrote:
Remember there should be NO OTHER APPLICATIONS RUNNING when you do an update or Upgrade.
It really should not matter for an OS upgrade or update if other apps are running when you begin. All the actual installing of files is done by the system user (also known as root or superuser) after all regular users are logged out, which of course terminates all user processes.

Is anyone have problems with Maverick installation?

I had problems with Maverick installation. It moved slowly and I lost the ability to use my Finder. It was riddled with bugs. I am trying to figure out why. I ended up erasing hard drive and reinstalling Mountian Lion.

No problems with Mavericks here ..
How much free storage space on your iMac?
Click your Apple menu  top left in your screen. From the drop down menu click About This Mac > More Info > Storage
Make sure there's at least 15% free disk space.
The v10.9 Mavericks file is a little over 5GB's and Mavericks does require a high speed broadband connection.

HT201380 keep having scrolling problems with Maverick on both iMac and Mac Pro despite downloading mail software update

Have scrolling problems with Maverick despite downloading mail update on both IMAC and Mac Pro
Have to reboot and it helps for awhile then stalls again

The Mac OS X 10.4.7 Update introduced connection issues as a result of (according to the documentation) "Mail now supports connecting to mail servers through a SOCKS proxy". This probably has nothing to do with your problem, but it'd be worth going to System Preferences > Network and making sure the SOCKS Proxy is not enabled in the network configuration used to connect to the Internet.
Also, it looks like the crashes you're talking about are actually freezes, i.e. Mail becomes unresponsive rather than quitting unexpectedly. In Mail, open Window > Activity Viewer, and see whether Mail displays there what it's doing when it freezes. Actually, you may be able to avoid having to force quit Mail by canceling whatever it's doing (by clicking on the red stop icon of the activity).
Reinstalling Mail will probably accomplish nothing, but it might be worth reinstalling the Combo Update for the type of machine and the version of Mac OS X you're using (which you would have to do anyway if you wanted to reinstall Mail):
Mac OS X 10.4.7 Combo Update for Intel
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Apogee duet problems with mavericks fixed?

Any person worked out the problems with Mavericks and midi issues??? I have an Apogee Duet for Mac/IOS

Nope. To put it bluntly Apple really screwed this up. The opperating system has created serious headaches for musicians and it doen't look like it's going to be fixed anything time soon.

Three Problems with Mavericks

I have three problems with Mavericks:
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2. I have a second monitor hooked up to my MBP, but when I enter Time Machine, a large solid black rectangle overlays and blocks the Time Machine backup info screen?
3. I downloaded a Filemaker update and received "Filemaker can't be opened because it is from an unidentified developer. I think the workaround was to push Control or Option to Open, but now the file keeps reappearing on my desktop after it's been installed, trashed and the computer restarted. Other trashed files and logs are also popping up in my user folder, long after they've been deleted...very strange. Any suggestions to any of these problems?

I'm researching this and other issues with SMB - you might find this post useful
Windows computers can not access smb-shares in Lion
It seems your connections from Windows (or perhaps from any user connecting via SMB - perhaps including home shares via SMB?) need to specify DOMAIN\user (eg SERVERNAME\user)... more info at the post above.

I think I have a problem with Mavericks: can anyone help,please?

A couple of days ago I installed Mavericks on top of my existing Mountain Lion OS. Not before I backed up the ML version with Time Machine, though.... :-)
Initially I thought everthing was fine, but then started to notice a few things that bothered me, which have not gone away. In fact, I think this install is now a potential problem. Unlike many other people, elsewhere on this forum, I have not noticed the calamitous slowing down and general unusability of Mavericks. I'm using a prety new i7 iMac ( the new flat one) with 32 GB of RAM.Everytihng worked great with Mountain Lion. However, The following anomalies have cropped up: Mail is taking over 30" to send a simple email. In ML it was almost instantaneous. I feel that Mail is not performing as it did in ML, and the same goes for Safari. It "feels" odd and slow and can take an age to load up pages. In fact one particular page would not load properly at all, but worked fine in Firefox. In the end got it to work in Sfari, but ithis type of behaviour doesn't instill confidence. Things got wierder...
An update to iMovie got " stuck" in the dowload process,and was perpetually downloading in Launchpad. It kept oscillating from approx 61 MB to aprrox 84 MB of a 1.94 GB file. Then I did a disk utiltiy test of my system drive and it suddenly stated that the drive need repairing. I booted up in Recovery Mode and tested the drive, which came back all clear! I booted up normally again and now the disk utility won't even complete a full diagnosis of the drive!It will diagnos all my other drives fine though.... :-s It keeps getting stuck on: Checking Volume Bitmap, and won't go any further. So, I did what some other person did on another thread, which seemed to clear up his problems; namely: simply reinstalled Mavericks from Recovery mode. This did not improve anything for me. The same issues remain. In fact as I type this, I notice that I'm using nearly 23 GB of my 32 GB of RAM, and all I have open is Safari, Disk Utility and Mail ! To quote Hans Solo: " I've got a b-a-a-a-d feeling about this..."
So, this is my long-winded way of asking: what shall I do? I would like to boot in Recovery Mode and reinstall my back up from an external drive. Does anyone have any advice about this,please? If I restore from my backup, will I actually get the ML OS back on the computer, or will I be stuck with Mavericks trying to impose itself ,as some people reported? I do want to use Mavericks, but not in the condition it's in right now. Also, really don't want to perfom a clean install and migrate everything over from the Time Machine back up....
Thanks for any advice.

I don't think that a software update from Apple will solve the issues that you are having. You have a rogue installation. After you posted I have just done the following:
Disk Utility can verify my partitioned Volume (including my boot disk) AND REPAIR the non-boot disks on the same Volume without a glitch. It repairs the non-boot disks containing data smoothly.
I have used Mail to send some mails from some Yahoo and Hotmail accounts to my Thunderbird client containing GMail accounts - absolutely normal.
I have iLife '09 but my iMovie '09 and iPhoto '09 open in a jiffy and I see no issues here. I have 6GB RAM (Maximum) on an early 2008 Macbook Pro with a 750GB hard drive partitioned with 120GB reserved for the Boot Drive.
I am sorry that I cannot help further but I am sure there must be a way to reinstall the software without having to revert to restoring your ML backup. I have two clones and if you have such I would attempt to do that through that rather than through Time Machine - that is of course if you have a cloned drive.
Good luck!

Problems with Mavericks upgrade?

Thinking about uprgrading to Mavericks, but have been coming across a lot of threads/reviews about people losing date and/or having real problems with the process. It's been a while since I've been here, and just wanted to ask for an opinion/advice. I'm using Snow Leopard 10.6.8. Should I stay away from it, or if I do, what advice/tips do you have for a smooth upgrade?
OR -- is it possible to get Mountian Lion Somewhere? I looked for it in the app store, but couldn't find it. I heard some negative reviews about Lion, so I just kept Snow Leopard, rather than take any chances with a new OS.

Mavericks is excellent on my MBP 8,2. Fast and flawless. Faster than Mountain Lion.
New features I like: iBooks, iCloud keychain, enhanced dictation.
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Any new OS has some bugs and incompatibilities with old software and hardware. If you are uncomfortable with basic Mac troubleshooting, then perhaps waiting would be a better strategy. I didn't have any problems, with installation or after.
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Crapware: anything that purports to "clean", "monitor", "protect", or "accelerate" your mac. Unnecessary on Macs and often harmful. Examples: CleanMyMac and MacKeeper (the King of Crapware).
antivirus software. Unnecessary on Macs.
WD hard drives.
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backup your old system, either with Time Machine, or better yet, a bootable backup.
have enough RAM. The specs say 2GB, but 4 is probably a more realistic minimum.
uninstall Crapware, antivirus software, and any other junk you don't need.
repair your hard drive and permissions with Disk Utility
boot into safe mode, and then run the installer Mac OS X: What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode?
ML is available here: OS X Mountain Lion - Apple Store (U.S.)

Scanning Problem with Mavericks, CS3, and Dell 2155cn

New MB Pro running Mavericks. Adobe CS3 loaded. Acrobat Pro will print to network Dell 2155CN, but will not scan. Same installation on older MBP running Lion scans from Acrobat with no problem. Does Mavericks have a problem with the Dell driver?S

Might be the driver. I don't see a Mavericks compatible driver > http://ftp.dell.com/Pages/Drivers/dell-2155cn-cdn.html
It just says Mac OS X. That's rather vague.
Try this workaround.
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since i installed os maverick i have some problems with the trackpad losing the pointer. The computer doesnt freeze but the pointer goes away. The only way you can get it back is reboot. Any one else with this problem and any ideas on how ro correct it.
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It worked for me, and after a PRAM reset (did not do the SMC reset) all kinds of other irritations disappeared as well. MacMini was slow to start up after downloading Maverick, took at least a minute before it was up and running, now back to someting like 10-15 sec. Trackpad does not loose pointer anymore on startup, speed on google chrome has increased 10 fold. Magic!!!. Never tried PRAM reset before, but it solves things

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