Running the latest OS Mavericks. 8 gigs of RAM. 150 gigs free space on computer. Problem: since upgrading to Maverick almost all applications are slow to open, and frequently many 'spinning ball' interruptions. Repaired disk permissions - no help.
I'm running the latest OS 10.9.1 Mavericks (late 2009 iMac). 8 gigs of RAM. 150 gigs free space on computer. Since upgrading to Mavericks, apps are slow to open, with frequent "spinning ball" interruptions. Repaired Disk Permissions - no help. Repaired disk - no problems indicated. Did notice in going to Utilities/Console that there are 4000 messages over a 3 day period. Any suggesstions how to correct this sudden slow down, other than psychiatric help?
Yes. Many messages show up when I try to use Office for Mac 08. Here's a sample (and one that repeats over and over again):
2/11/14 1:01:16.577 PM Microsoft Word[1912]: OTAtomicAdd32 is deprecated and will be removed soon. Please stop using it.
Also getting many msgs when I use Chrome.
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just update my iMac from Mountain Lion to Mavericks and the application are slow to open. The same happens to opening webpages . Please help
Resetting your Mac's PRAM and NVRAM
Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)
Restart the computer in Safe Mode, then restart again, normally. If this doesn't help, then:
Reinstalling Mavericks, Lion/Mountain Lion Without Erasing the Drive
Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the main menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows.
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion, Mavericks: Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion, Mavericks and click on the Continue button.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless. -
After installing Mavericks, computer is slow and applications are slow to open
Mavericks has slowed my IMAC to a crawl. Applications are slow to open. Disc burning is slow as well as photo editing. Any Idea's
We need more info about your iMac other than "My iMac is running slow."
What year, screen size, CPU speed and amount of RAM installed?
To find out info about your system, click on the Apple symbol in the upper left of the OS X main menu bar. A drop down menu appears. Click About this Mac. A smaller popup window appears. This gives you basic info like what version of OS X your iMac is running, the speed of your iMac's CPU and how much RAM is installed. Click on the button that says More Info. A larger window appears giving you a complete overview of your iMac's hardware specs. Highlight all of this info and copy/paste all of this into another reply to this post, editing out your iMac's serial number before actually posting the reply. This will tell us everything about your iMac so we may begin to help with your iMac issues.
How full is your Mac's hard drive?
Locate your iMac's hard drive icon on the OS X desktop. Click the icon once, then use the keyboard key combination Command-I. This will give you additonal info about your iMac's internal hard drive.
How many applications do you run simultaneously in the background while working in another application?
Do you run any antivirus software on your Mac? Antivirus software can slow down the normal operation of OS X.
Conpletely uninstall any virus software you have installed following the anti-virus deveolper's instructions.
Do you run any "crapware" like Mackeeper or any other type of "crapware" like so called hard drive "cleaning" apps?
Another her possibilty is that some hardware, like your iMac's hard drive, could be failing. -
Trying to open youtube, QuickTime cannot open video.3gp, only a problem since upgrading to Mavericks
trying to open youtube, QuickTime cannot open video.3gp, only a problem since upgrading to Mavericks, what do I need to do please ?
You're right. It wasn't QuickTime itself. I solved all the problems myself.
The main reason why QuickTime files weren't working was because the newest audio driver from Creative released July 2007 (using their autoupdate) is apparently for Windows Vista (it has the name Vista in the update title). Why that update showed up on my Windows XP Pro system, I have no idea. So, I went to Creative's site and got the driver before the latest release, and all works well.
The Microsoft update (from June 2007, I noticed today, not July) is another issue. It's based around the file P17RunE.dll, which is something from Microsoft for the SoundBlaster. Not sure what it does, but I don't need it.
Sorry for wasting all your time on a non QuickTime issue, but thanks for the help. -
Problems since upgrading to Mavericks
I am experiencing problems with CC applications since upgrading to Mavericks. Mostly Screen and display issues.
In Photoshop, the top menu bar where the red, yellow , green window buttons normally sit has disappeared and it seems I cannot drag the window down to reveal (if that is the problem)
In Indesign, The program opens but I cannot see any workspace at all, even when I open an existing ID file.
Premiere Pro, Bridge, appear to work OK
After effects and Muse indicated both required upgrades, yet the CC application Manager does not indicate any upgrades required or available.
I have not tried other apps.
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Once it turns magenta or green, that's when I have to boot the system. I can still work with the glitchy display before it turns colors and if I'm still able to quit InDesign while it's glitching, the display goes back to normal. Same on both computers and the 2011 one has a new logic board in it.
At first I thought it had something to do with connecting my hard drive or my external display, but the display issues happened with both computers with nothing hooked up. Those are ruled out now. I took my 2012 computer to Apple and they told me it was a software issue and all my hardware is ok. Obviously they didn't fix the software issue because it's still happening.
This is not normal and needs to be fixed soon! -
Unable to open downloaded game. Says need to be administrator/I am. Repair disk permissions w/disk utility no help...what do I do?
This is what popped up after i typed all that in :
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:676)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:124)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:260)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:56)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:195)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:317)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:280)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:375) -
Display problem since upgrading to Mavericks on my Macbook pro
I have an early 2011 Macbook Pro 13" and I have just upgraded to Mavericks and since I have the screen has not been right
Inconsistency across the screen with purple flickering
Any idea how I can fix this
It works fine but not ideal as this is my portable Photography MacI would take it in for diagnosis. The problem is probably not related to OS X 10.9.
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Computer problems after upgrading to Mavericks
SO many problems. I cleared out a ton of old stuff that I saw might be causing problems, and I've verified and repaired the disc, and uninstalled and reinstalled a couple of programs that I was seeing problems with in the console, but now I'm just flummoxed. It's behaving better than it was earlier, and isn't giving me the beach ball nearly so often, but it still seems like it's taking too long for a lot of things. I just reinstalled Avast and am currently letting a game update through Steam. I have the console and the activity monitor open to one side. Since I opened the console, it's been spitting out one or two messages every second, and all I can find through some internet searching is that it's something to do with the wireless connection. There's some other stuff periodically mixed in that doesn't sound good either, involving either sandboxd or mdworker. But for the most part it's along these lines:
Nov 5 00:59:52 kate-lenthalls-macbook-pro kernel[0]: 1516.810543: vap-0: connection_sm_roam_check_timer_handler: roam check cur rssi 22 rssi thresh 23 policy 3 last_scan_rssi 23 rssi_change_thresh 7 ignore_thresholds 0
Nov 5 00:59:53 kate-lenthalls-macbook-pro kernel[0]: 1517.811065: vap-0: connection_sm_roam_check_timer_handler: roam check cur rssi 22 rssi thresh 23 policy 3 last_scan_rssi 23 rssi_change_thresh 7 ignore_thresholds 0
Nov 5 00:59:54 kate-lenthalls-macbook-pro kernel[0]: 1518.811534: vap-0: connection_sm_roam_check_timer_handler: roam check cur rssi 22 rssi thresh 23 policy 3 last_scan_rssi 23 rssi_change_thresh 7 ignore_thresholds 0
Nov 5 00:59:55 kate-lenthalls-macbook-pro kernel[0]: 1519.811686: vap-0: connection_sm_roam_check_timer_handler: roam check cur rssi 22 rssi thresh 23 policy 3 last_scan_rssi 23 rssi_change_thresh 7 ignore_thresholds 0
Nov 5 00:59:56 kate-lenthalls-macbook-pro kernel[0]: 1520.812774: vap-0: connection_sm_roam_check_timer_handler: roam check cur rssi 23 rssi thresh 23 policy 3 last_scan_rssi 23 rssi_change_thresh 7 ignore_thresholds 0
Nov 5 00:59:58 kate-lenthalls-macbook-pro kernel[0]: com.avast.AvastFileShield Warning: Unable to retrieve file path. Skipping. [22]
Nov 5 01:00:27 --- last message repeated 208 times ---
Here's my report from EtreCheck:
Hardware Information:
MacBook Pro (17-inch 2.4GHZ)
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro3,1
1 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2 cores
4 GB RAM
Video Information:
GeForce 8600M GT - VRAM: 256 MB
Audio Plug-ins:
BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0
AirPlay: Version: 1.9
AppleAVBAudio: Version: 2.0.0
iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3
System Software:
OS X 10.9 (13A603) - Uptime: 0 days 0:30:19
Disk Information:
ST9500420AS disk0 : (500.11 GB)
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) /: 413.49 GB (122.62 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
BOOTCAMP (disk0s4) /Volumes/BOOTCAMP: 85.76 GB (28.21 GB free)
USB Information:
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Apple Inc. Built-in iSight
Apple Computer Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
FireWire Information:
Thunderbolt Information:
Kernel Extensions:
com.eltima.ElmediaPlayer.kext (1.58)
com.bresink.driver.BRESINKx86Monitoring (8.0)
com.avast.PacketForwarder (1.3)
com.avast.AvastFileShield (2.0.0)
Problem System Launch Daemons:
Problem System Launch Agents:
Launch Daemons:
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist
[loaded] com.eltima.ElmediaPlayer.daemon.plist
[failed] com.google.GoogleML.plist
[loaded] net.sourceforge.MonolingualHelper.plist
Launch Agents:
[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
[loaded] com.adobe.CS5ServiceManager.plist
[loaded] com.wacom.pentablet.plist
User Launch Agents:
[not loaded] com.avast.home.userinit.plist
[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist
[loaded] com.markdouma.SourceFinaglerAgent.Portal.plist
[loaded] com.valvesoftware.steamclean.plist
[not loaded] org.virtualbox.vboxwebsrv.plist
User Login Items:
Flux
smcFanControl
GrowlHelperApp
Google Notifier
FreeMemory
TrashMeHelper
Cloud
sidenote
Temperature Monitor
avast!
Dropbox
Alfred 2
Activity Monitor
3rd Party Preference Panes:
avast! Preferences
PenTablet
Flash Player
GeekTool
Growl
MultiBrowser
Shades Preferences
Internet Plug-ins:
Default Browser.plugin
DirectorShockwave.plugin
DivX Web Player.plugin
Flash Player.plugin
FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin
JavaAppletPlugin.plugin
QuickTime Plugin.plugin
Silverlight.plugin
Unity Web Player.plugin
WacomNetscape.plugin
WacomTabletPlugin.plugin
User Internet Plug-ins:
Picasa.plugin
Bad Fonts:
None
Time Machine:
Skip System Files: YES
Auto backup: NO
Time Machine not configured!
Top Processes by CPU:
24% Console
10% WindowServer
9% LotroLauncher
2% steam
1% EtreCheck
1% mds_stores
1% mds
1% com.avast.proxy
1% Activity Monitor
0% empdaemon
Top Processes by Memory:
180 MB steam
156 MB Safari
152 MB LotroLauncher
150 MB mdworker
147 MB mds_stores
139 MB com.apple.IconServicesAgent
70 MB Dropbox
70 MB Console
66 MB com.apple.WebKit.WebContent
61 MB Finder
Virtual Memory Statistics:
207 MB Free RAM
1.81 GB Active RAM
1.46 GB Inactive RAM
513 MB Wired RAM
2.39 GB Page-ins
3 MB Page-outsI just reinstalled Avast
"Avast" is perhaps the worst of the whole wretched lot of commercial "security" products for the Mac. It's worse than the imaginary "viruses" you were worried about when you installed it. Not only does it fail to protect you, it throws false warnings, destabilizes and slows down your computer, and sometimes or always corrupts the network settings and the permissions of files in your home folder. Removing it may not repair all the damage, and neither will Disk Utility or even reinstalling OS X.
Back up all data, then remove "Avast" according to the developer's instructions. Reboot.
If you tried to remove Avast by dragging an application to the Trash, you'll have to reinstall it and follow the instructions linked above.
If you still have problems after following those instructions, post again. -
Hello all,
im fairly new to the macbook and have been reading up on repairing disk permissions as the mac has started to slow down in time
the problem i have is i opened disk utility
and ran verrify disk permisions, it found problems, so i restarted and held comand and r and booted into the recovery console
from there, i chose disk utilities and ran verify disk again, again it found problems, so i ran repair disk permisons, that came back and repaired succefull,
so just to check i then vefried the permisons again, and once again it found the same problems, so i then re - repaired the permisions, and again it cam back succefull
again i double checked and once again it found the same problems , so im going round in a loop here the problems arnt actually properly fixing?
how can i sort this out?
any help would be appreciated!
regardsThose messages are in fact quite similar to the ones Apple mention in the KB.
All the examples you posted are instances of the same symptom: the BOM states a given path is supposed to be a directory but it actually is a symlink to a directory.
A possible cause of this is when something was installed that did not foresee upgrades that would leave multiple versions installed at the same time, then the development team eventually decided that a new version would be needed to co-exist with the old one and such a new version has been installed. The old BOM file still report the directories (or files) as not being symlinks but the new installation actually moved the old data to a directory specific for the old version, installed a new version and then changed the old directory (aka the "unversioned" or "current" path) to a symlink to the latest installation.
You can safely ignore these differences.
While in the past running permission repair used to be a very important periodic maintenance routine, nowadays it's rarely needed and even more rarely useful. It still is a good idea to run it right before and after an important operating system patch update, but it's not really necessary.
It's very common (and has been for a long time) for the tool to report differences, say they have been repaired, and then, if run again, to report the same differences. In those cases you can generally ignore those differences. Only if the repair tool says it failed to repair something you should be concerned. -
Messages App| connectivity issues since upgrading to Mavericks
is anyone having problems since upgrading to Mavericks with connectivity issues in the "Messages" app? Im on a 2011 MacBook Pro. I will start a desktop share session with my folks (IMAC) and within 2-3 minutes of having access to their desktop, I'm unable to control any longer and their system freezes.
HI,
When iChat 3 came out someone tested whether it would work on the platform that was running iChat 2 and also tested whether iChat 2 would work on the later OS.
This eventually led to the Reinstall procedure for iChat 3 up to the iChat 5 version.
Since then the app has required either a Backup version from when it was working, a copy on another machine running the same OS and app version numbers (the two go hand in hand) or you have to Reinstall the whole OS which will always update you to the latest version of the OS (and in the case of Messages any updates it has had).
8:01 pm Saturday; December 21, 2013
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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 -
Battery running down fast using Yosemite, running the latest update 10.10.2. I think there is bug in this update. Please help me out or is there a way can i switch back to mavericks and how
1. Check the cycle count of the battery against the rated life for your model. The battery may be due for replacement. If the power adapter is connected almost all the time, the battery may need replacing even though the cycle count is not too high.
2. Follow these instructions, or these for OS X 10.8 or earlier.
3. In the Energy Saver preference pane, uncheck the box marked
Enable Power Nap while on battery power
if it's shown (it may not be.)
4. You can also try resetting the SMC.
5. Make sure your system is up to date in Software Update.
6. Make a "Genius" appointment at an Apple Store, or go to another authorized service center. -
When run repair disk permissions?
I am going to upgrade from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion.
I have heard/read that you're supposed to run repair disk permissions beforehand.
1. Should I run repair disk permissions on my brand new backup disk (am planning to backup Snow Leopard and all apps and docs before upgrading to Mountain Lion - - so can restore Snow Leopard etc. if want/need to)? If so, do I run repair disk permissions on the new backup disk before or after I partition the backup disk [am planning to have two sections, one with all the Snow Leopard stuff, and one for iMac backups that will be made after have upgraded to Mountain Lion])
2. When's the best time to run repair disk permissions on my iMac - - before I download Mountain Lion or right before I do the installation of Mountain Lion?
Thanks.It's not a requirement, but it may help especially if you don't attend to the state of your running OS. I recommend doing this:
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your Snow Leopard Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
Then you can proceed to click on the Install button after the upgrade finishes downloading. I also suggest you make a bootable backup of your current Snow Leopard system on an external drive just in case things go badly. -
Continually get a message saying "We are experiencing technical difficulties, please try later" when trying to set up allowances. Not very helpful. Any ideas. I am running the latest itunes with Windows 7 Professional.
Not a solution yet, but received the following from one of the tech people I've been e-mailing back & forth with.
"I'm sorry that you have been unable to submit your podcast. The podcast submission form is currently offline. When trying to submit the podcast you will receive this message "We are Currently Experienced Technical Difficulties". Once the issue has been resolved, I would be glad to inform you.
Apple is currently working toward a resolution for the issue you have reported. You will receive an email after the matter has been investigated and further information is available."
Who knows, maybe the problem isn't with my feed after all. -
My itunes radio rebuffers every 8 seconds - is there any fix or help for this problem. I am running the latest itunes on a new Mac with 4MB download speed.
You need to update your Mac OS to at least 10.5.8.
Itunes 10+ requires Mac OS 10.5.8+ -
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I tried repairing the disk permissions and received the following error message:
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
Got the same error message when verifying the disk permissions. The verify disk option also failed.
Whenever I run this application to check for updates, it just bounces in the dock and disappears. Then I get this error box that says "The application Software Update quit unexpectedly". It then gives me 3 options to "ignore, report, and relaunch".
Any ideas would be appreciated.Thanks for the fast reply. I was able to run the disk utility using the disk. But I got the same errors when I booted back up and tried to run the "repair disk permissions". Plus the "Software Update" program still crashed.
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