Running 10.8.3 on an Intel iMac 27'. The Finder keeps grabbing over 100% of the CPU which seems to stop me from opening any folders. Only quitting the Finder from Activity monitor resets it to normal. Any ideas?

My Finder keeps grabbing over 100% of the CPU which seems to stop me from opening any folders.
Only quitting the Finder from Activity monitor resets it to normal.
Any ideas?

Nope, I don't have a "/Users/charon/Library/Mobile Documents" directory, let alone anything underneath it. Is that like an iCloud thing or something?  I tend to avoid the Apple-supplied services when I can (I don't use iTunes either unless I can help it).
As an update, as of about two days later this problem seems to have solved itself. Possibly sleeping and waking did something to it (though that seems unlikely given how many times I rebooted), or else there was just some long-*** kernel process that finally worked itself out.  But my system CPU is back down to normal and the cursor freezes are gone.
??? it is a mystery! ???

Similar Messages

  • How can I install/run flash 11.5 on my intel imac running os x 10.4.11?

    How can I install/run flash 11.5 on my intel imac running os x 10.4.11?

    Welcome to Apple Support Communities
    The latest Flash Player version for 10.4.11 is Flash Player 10.1. Newer Flash versions require Mac OS X Snow Leopard or newer.

  • I have Microsoft Word for Mac 2011, version 14.3.1.  When I try to open a document, an error occurs, says file type is "blocked from opening in this version."  This was NOT immediately after a version update.  Any ideas?  Thank you.

    I have Microsoft Word for Mac 2011, version 14.3.1.  When I try to open a document, an error occurs, says file type is "blocked from opening in this version."  This was NOT immediately after a version update.  Any ideas?  Thank you.

    Take a look here:
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953266
    If that doesn't help, I'd suggest you take up the question in Microsoft's own forums or with Microsoft support.
    Regards.

  • When I try to open a site I normally access i'm getting a bar that says,Firefox has blocked this site from opening another window then on the right side of the bar gives option to allow or not. Never did that before. Thanks

    When I try to open a site I normally access i'm getting a bar that says,Firefox has blocked this site from opening another window then on the right side of the bar gives option to allow or not. Never did that before. Thanks

    Hello,
    '''Try Firefox Safe Mode''' to see if the problem goes away. Safe Mode is a troubleshooting mode, which disables most add-ons.
    ''(If you're not using it, switch to the Default theme.)''
    * On Windows you can open Firefox 4.0+ in Safe Mode by holding the '''Shift''' key when you open the Firefox desktop or Start menu shortcut.
    * On Mac you can open Firefox 4.0+ in Safe Mode by holding the '''option''' key while starting Firefox.
    * On Linux you can open Firefox 4.0+ in Safe Mode by quitting Firefox and then going to your Terminal and running: firefox -safe-mode (you may need to specify the Firefox installation path e.g. /usr/lib/firefox)
    * Or open the Help menu and click on the '''Restart with Add-ons Disabled...''' menu item while Firefox is running.
    [[Image:FirefoxSafeMode|width=520]]
    ''Once you get the pop-up, just select "'Start in Safe Mode"''
    [[Image:Safe Mode Fx 15 - Win]]
    '''''If the issue is not present in Firefox Safe Mode''''', your problem is probably caused by an extension, and you need to figure out which one. Please follow the [[Troubleshooting extensions and themes]] article for that.
    ''To exit the Firefox Safe Mode, just close Firefox and wait a few seconds before opening Firefox for normal use again.''
    ''When you figure out what's causing your issues, please let us know. It might help other users who have the same problem.''
    Thank you.

  • Clarification on migration from iMac G5 running 10.4.11 to new intel iMac

    Hello,
    Although a lot of you have already posted on this subject, I just wanted to get a clarification, please. I just got a new intel iMac and I would like to transfer all my files from my iMac G5 (10.4.11). Should I just use the Migration Assistant and that's it? Will the two OS conflict with each other? And also, is it possible to continue to use 10.4.11 on my new iMac?
    Thank you very much! I hope Ms. Miriam reads this one. She seems to be very knowledgeable!
    -Pedro

    Not Miriam, but...
    You can use Migration Assistant to go from a Tiger Mac to a Leopard Mac. You will be running the Migration Assistant utility on the new iMac. You might employ FireWire Target Disk Mode (on the old iMac) as part of the process, to connect the two Macs.
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661
    A new iMac has one FireWire 800 port and no FireWire 400 port (which is the type on the iMac G5). So you will need to get a 9-pin (800) to 6-pin (400) adapter, or a cable that has an 800 end and a 400 end (if you want to use the FireWire method for connection). They are available here
    http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/FIR1369AD/
    http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/1394B96036/
    You can also use a wired or wireless network connection between the two Macs, to do the data transfer.
    And also, is it possible to continue to use 10.4.11 on my new iMac?
    No. Macs can generally run the OS that came with it, or LATER (up to hardware limitations), but not earlier. So if the new iMac had 10.5.6 pre-installed, it cannot run any earlier version of Mac OS X.

  • How can i run OS 9 (classic) on an intel IMAC G5 running Leopard 10.5.6

    Hi,
    I run a program that requires classic, i have been running a G4 laptop on the side of my imac, but i would really like to just use my iMac as a 'one does it all' scenario. Does anyone know how i can run the Classic mode as a background to my Leopard system, ie in conjunction?
    many thanks.
    Keith

    If you have an Intel iMac, you can't use Classic.
    If you heve a G5 iMac, you have to install 10.4.11 or earlier on a Firewire external hard drive, or a separate partition after partitioning your hard drive for both 10.5 and 10.4.11. This article tells you if you have a G5 versus an Intel iMac:
    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301724
    Partitioning is described here, and will erase the entire contents of your hard drive:
    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61301
    You will also need to use the original iMac G5 install and restore discs to install Mac OS 9 on your 10.4.11 hard drive/partition following these directions:
    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61802
    See my FAQ* on possible alternative Mac OS X compatible titles for your Mac OS 9 applications:
    http://www.macmaps.com/macosxnative.html
    - * Links to my pages may give me compensation.
    Message was edited by: a brody

  • Any way to make games run full screen/higher res on intel iMac?

    Hi,
    I just got i 17" intel imac and am pleased with it exept that all the games run with a black band down either side of the screen and only seem to play at 1024 x 768. Is there any way of isorting this out? Doom 3 for example keeps returning to 800 x 600 if i change the settings?
    Thanks.

    take a look at this thread, you can find some useful info about running old and some new games on Booklet there.

  • My safari stopped letting me open a new tab in the same window. what happened and how can I get it back to normal?

    When I try and open a new tab in the same window, it wont open a new tab. It leaves the page I am on and goes to the "top sites page."

    Hi,
    If you have got to  Mountain Lion OS X 10.8.2 and therefore Messages version 7.0.1 then double click the individual chats.
    Once they are in separate windows you can chat like that  (That's the way I used to chat - I didn't even use the tabbed chat)
    It is impossible to create a separate Chat window each new chat (you have to separate them off from the main window which also keeps a "copy")
    New chats are added to the main window even if you have used the red button to hide it. (CMD + 0 from the Window menu brings it back)
    10:49 PM      Tuesday; November 20, 2012
    Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"
      iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Mountain Lion 10.8.2)
     G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
     MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
     Mac OS X (10.6.8),
     Couple of iPhones and an iPad
    "Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

  • I've updated to yosemite from Mavericks, but since i can't connect to the internet I used my time machine back up which was march 2013. Now my macbook pro won't start and ends with a prohibited ted sign. Any suggestions pls.

    I've updated to yosemite from Mavericks, but since i can't connect to the internet I used my time machine back up which was march 2013. Now my macbook pro won't start and ends with a prohibted sign. Any suggestions pls.

    Install or Reinstall Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion, or Lion from Scratch
    Be sure you backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive because the following procedure will remove everything from the hard drive.
    How to Clean Install OS X Yosemite
    OS X Mavericks- Erase and reinstall OS X
    OS X Mountain Lion- Erase and reinstall OS X
    OS X Lion- Erase and reinstall Mac OS X
    Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible
                because it is three times faster than wireless.

  • Running my OS9 Apps form my intel-iMac

    Hi all...
    Anyone advise me : how can i run my old OS9-applications from my iMac-intel based running 10.5???
    please help me in few and clear words so i reach the stuff without reading a lot of webpages or help-articles....
    Many thanks....

    You can't do it with any built-in functionality. To run Mac OS 9 apps under the "Classic" environment, you need a PowerPC Mac running Tiger (10.4.11) or below. With Leopard (10.5), you can't even do it with a PowerPC Mac.
    There is an application that is supposed to allow you do run Mac OS 9.0.4 with Intel Macs under Mac OS X.
    http://sheepshaver.cebix.net/
    But it is far from perfected. And you'll have to do some reading to figure out how to install it and use it.

  • Snow Leopard runs super slow on early 2006 (Intel) iMac

    Hi. I need some advice please. I have an early 2006 iMac 20" that was running slow and I wanted to upgrade OS and main applications so I bought the SL box set. I backed up my data on a USB HDD and did a clean install, but now the system runs incredibly slowly. Genius at the Apple store ran diagnostics all day and found no problems with the HW and recommended I added another 1GB of RAM to existing 1GB. I did and system is still incredibly slow. I get the beach ball all the time and sometimes the system is completely unresponsive. Anyone else have performance issues with SL on this model iMac?
    Message was edited by: Leibochips

    See:
    Mac Maintenance Quick Assist,
    Mac OS X speed FAQ,
    Speeding up Macs,
    Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
    Essential Mac Maintenance: Get set up,
    Essential Mac Maintenance: Rev up your routines,
    Maintaining OS X, and
    Myths of required versus not required maintenance for Mac OS X for possible fixes.

  • Activity Monitor - Reset?

    Hi,
    I'm trying to monitor memory page-outs. What I want to do is reset the counter to zero from time-to-time, in order that I can view exactly what circumstances cause page-outs. I can't see a way to reset the counter. Does anyone know of a way to do this?
    David

    Glad to help. Now, mark the reply, appropriately. Good computing.

  • Server 2008R2 with AD DNS Panel not showing any records only shows the zone name

    Hi All new to the Form.  We have had this new domain controller running dns for a few years now and recently I went to edit some DNS records and found them missing in the DNS console the zone names are there but nothing is under the zones just one record
    for the server under our AD domain. If i do a nslookup to this server it still displays the records as it should. It is also setup to forward the zones to a secondary server which is only pulling info from this Master 2008R2 server. Any ideas where i can try
    and recover the records for my Zones.
    Thanks

    Hi,
    According to your description, there are several possible reasons resulting in the DNS records disappearing.
    1. If the aging and scavenging was configured in the DNS server, scavenging can cause records to disappear. Even Windows-based computers that have statically assigned servers register their records every 24 hours. Verify if the
    No-refresh and Refresh intervals are too low. For example, if these values are both less than 24 hours, then we will lose DNS records. To view the settings, right-click the zone in the DC, click
    Properties, click Aging.
    2. Is there a DHCP server in your environment? DNS Dynamic Update Protocol updates to existing records fail can also cause them to be deleted by the scavenging process as aged records.
    Also, event logs are helpful to isolating the issues. Is there any event logs in your computer?
    For more details about DNS records disappearing, please refer to the link below,
    DNS Records Disappearing and DNS Auditing
    http://msmvps.com/blogs/acefekay/archive/2010/12/09/dns-records-disappearing-and-dns-auditing.aspx
    Using AD Recycle Bin to restore deleted DNS zones and their contents in Windows Server 2008 R2
    http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2010/08/12/using-ad-recycle-bin-to-restore-deleted-dns-zones-and-their-contents-in-windows-server-2008-r2.aspx
    Best Regards,
    Tina

  • Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system i keep geting this nearly every time try open firefox and only in the house getting it

    i get this get every time i shut down firefox then reboot it or try at least Firefox is already running, but is not responding.

    ok its still ding but heres the errors source code its long
    function() function ga(a,b) function ha(a,b)
    var ia="appendChild",q="push",ja="valueOf",ka="width",la="round",ma="slice",r="replace",na="floor",oa="cookie",pa="charAt",qa="_height_",s="indexOf",u="write",ra="domain",sa="match",ta="opera",v="_html_",va="createElement",w="getParameter",wa="addEventListener",xa="referrer",ya="attachEvent",za="name",Aa="contentWindow",Ba="getTime",Ca="getElementsByTagName",x="toString",y="length",Da="propertyIsEnumerable",Ea="plugins",z="prototype",Fa="setTimeout",A="document",B="split",C="userAgent",D="screen",
    E="style",Ga="body",Ha="_width_",F="call",G="random",Ia="_is_afc_",H="substring",Ja="navigator",Ka="parentNode",La="height",I="join",Ma="toLowerCase",J=this,Na=function(a,b,c) )},Oa=function(a) else return"null";else if(b=="function"&&typeof a[F]=="undefined")return"object";return b};o[na](o[G]()*2147483648)[x](36);
    var Pa=function(a,b) }else return function() },K=function(a,b,c) ,Qa=function(a,b,c) ,Ra=function(a,b) c.prototype=b[z];a.Ca=b[z];a.prototype=new c};var Sa=function(a,b) catch(c) return a[x]()}else if(Jb()) catch(d) catch(e) try catch(m){}}if(b) }return"0"}function Lb(a,b) d(m)}},Sb=function(a) ,Tb=function(a,b) ,Ub="http://"+Wa()+"/pagead/osd.js",Wb=function(a) },Xb=function(a,b) ,p=!!P&&!!P.gaGlobal;if(d) else j.dh=c;j.hid=p&&P.gaGlobal.hid?P.gaGlobal.hid:o[la](o[G]()*2147483647);return P.gaGlobal=j}function sc() d+=a;d+=pc[xa]?pc[xa]:"";for(a=d[y];b>0;)d+=b--^a++;return tc(d)}
    function tc(a) ,Hd=function(a,b,c,d) else ua[q]("")}}if(U>=0) };Y[z].ja=function() ;
    var ne=function(a) };Y[z].k=function(){};
    var nd=function(a,b) ,ue=function() ,xd=/\+/g,ve=function(a,b) ,$=function(a,b,c) ,Z=function(a,b,c) ,we=function(a,b) },xe=function(a,b,c) return b[H](0,a)+b[H](c+1,b[y])}return b},ye=function(a,b,c) ,Ae=function(a,b,c) ,ze=function(a,b,c) ,Be=function(a,b,c,d){$(a,"url",
    xe(a,ze(a,i,n),i.GA_googleEnv[w]("google_preview")));$(a,"ref",n[xa]);$(a,"lmt",(Date.parse(n.lastModified)/1E3)[x]());Z(a,"dt",b[Ba]());if(n[Ga]) b=f;if(b=Nb(b)){$(a,"biw",b[ka]);$(a,"bih",b[La])}b=Sc(i);$(a,"ifi",b);b=Pb(i);b!=0&&$(a,"ifk",b[x]());if(a.ca) b=i.GA_googleEnv[w]("deb");b!=g&&$(a,"deb",b);b=i.GA_googleEnv[w]("haonly");b!=g&&$(a,"haonly",b);b=ce(S());k[C][s]("MSIE ")>0&&Fd(b,
    "google_encoding",n.charset,h);e="";if(d)e=Id(S().a,b,S().B,a.Aa);else if(e)a.b+="&"+e},Ce=function(a,b,c) (b=Ae(a,b,c))&&$(a,"cdm",b)},De=function(a) ,Ee=function(a,b) },Ie=function(a) c=Fe(a.f[x]());var d=Ge(),e=He();c&&b[q](c);d&&b[q](d);e&&b[q](e);b[y]>0&&$(a,"eid",b[I]())};
    Y[z].h=function(a) ;Mb(a);Ee(this,a);Z(this,"flash",Kb());this.b=this.b[H](0,2E3);this.b=this.b[r](/%\w?$/,"");if(this.da) return this.b};
    var ld=function(a) ,Je=function(a,b) ,Ke=function(a,b,c,d) ,Me=function(a,b,c,d,e,m) ,Ne=function(a,b,c) else b[ia](j);if(a.m) else j[Aa][A][u](d);Le(i)?j[Aa][A][u]("document.close();"):j[Aa][A].close();Wd(S(),c)};function Oe(a,b) K("GA_googleCreateDomIframe",Oe);
    var Pe=function() ,Ye=function(a,b) else for(c in b)if(!R(b[c])) var d=h;for(c in b)if(!R(b[c])) e!=g&&e._cookies_!=g&&i._GA_googleCookieHelper.L(e)}};function Ze(a) K("GA_googleSetAdContentsBySlot",Ze);function $e(a) Ra($e,Y);
    $e[z].k=function() ;
    var af=function(a,b) Me(a,
    d,m,c,e[Ha],e[qa])}else }},kf=function(a,b) ;function lf(a) K("GA_googleSyncAdSlotLoaded",lf);function mf(a) Ra(mf,Y);mf[z].k=function() ;
    var nf=function(a) ;mf[z].j=function() ;var of=function(a) else }}};function pf() K("GA_googleReallyFetchAds",pf);
    mf[z].n=function(a) };var rf=function(a,b) ;function sf(a) K("GA_googleAsyncAdSlotLoaded",sf);var qf=function(a,b) ,a.delay);d.$++}}else Ue(a,b)};mf[z].G=function(){};
    function tf(a) Ra(tf,Y);tf[z].k=function() ;tf[z].j=function() ;tf[z].z=function(a) else a=this.h(a);return a};tf[z].n=function(a) }};
    function uf(a) Ra(uf,Y);uf[z].k=function() ;uf[z].j=function() ;uf[z].z=function(a) else a=this.h(a);return a};uf[z].n=function(a) }};
    var vf=function(){if(Jb()){var a=ue();return a

  • HT1414 i wanted to reset my iphone from the phone settings and i started with no problem but now my i phone got stuck i can only see the apple logo  and my phone does not start what to do please help

    i wanted to reset my iphone 4 from the phone settings and everything started okay until i realised it was not working at all now my phone is tuck with the apple logo and won't start can not connect to the itunes store as well what to do please help

    Place your iPhone into recovery mode as described here.  You may have to try to enter recovery mode more than once to succeed.
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808

Maybe you are looking for