Spinning Cursor of Death on all actions and apps
I now have the spinning cursor of death on all apps all finder actions in snow leopard
over last 3 months, OS periodically dumped bluetooth, resetting the Sys management controller fixed this, also zapped the pram twice in this time. in the last 10 days had to do this every 5 days.
All actions are extremely slow, spinning ball cursor on all apps and icons bouncing in dock for long time, all apps slow in operation, the command F is also very slow, if backing up to usb drive doing any other tasks is almost impossible
1. booted from external HD (Backup'd with Chronosync) drive and ran disk utility to repair permissions 3 times. Although it states the permissions are repaired on the 3rd time it was a repeat of the first. So it appears it is not repairing the permissions at all
2. reset system management controller
3. zapped pram
account - admin ( only used for installing apps). My user ac and a 2nd user account set up for family visitors. This ac hadn't been opened for 9 months and I found couldn't log in - froze twice forced restart - also to log out and login to any other ac took 3 min, normal 15 secs. Deleted the family ac and login returned to normal on other ac's
4. booted from installer disk and ran disk repair, aok, and then permissions repair twice.
5. booted from installer disk 2 and ran apple hardware test aok
Been thru the apps folder and deleted any app no longer required and deleted prefs from the prefs folder as well as well an any other orphan files.
appeared to be working ok until boot next day same problems, re-booted in safe mode and tried using firefox and then opening excel, same problem, deleted firefox and all accompanying files. Rebooted and problem worse than ever. OS is unusable. Currently working from chronosync bootable HD from last bootable backup 12 days ago. ( files backed up daily)
I would like to avoid erasing the HD and clean instal if possible I have 400 GB of data - The latest updates are installed on everything
Any help as to what to do next would be appreciated
Lhadis
lahdis wrote:
I now have the spinning cursor of death on all apps all finder actions in snow leopard
over last 3 months, OS periodically dumped bluetooth, resetting the Sys management controller fixed this, also zapped the pram twice in this time. in the last 10 days had to do this every 5 days.
All actions are extremely slow, spinning ball cursor on all apps and icons bouncing in dock for long time, all apps slow in operation, the command F is also very slow, if backing up to usb drive doing any other tasks is almost impossible
Sounds like malware, boot drive failing, bad sectors or OS x is messed up.
Although it states the permissions are repaired on the 3rd time it was a repeat of the first. So it appears it is not repairing the permissions at all
Apple changed some things under the hood, so it's going to show certain Disk Uitlity permisisons fixes over and over, that you can ignore.
2. reset system management controller
3. zapped pram
not applicable in your case, but it doesn't hurt.
I would like to avoid erasing the HD and clean instal if possible I have 400 GB of data - The latest updates are installed on everything
Well copy that 400GB of User Data to another drive, as to fix your issue may require a erase and install to fix the bad sectors issue.
Run through this list of fixes, wipe and install is last and if that still gives you problems then it's a bad drive.
..Step by Step to fix your Mac
This will fix the bad sector issue if you just want to jump and do that.
Erase, formatting, OS X installs on Mac's
I also suspect because your using Chronosych, that it's not doing something right and/or OS X is getting confused with the two boot drives.
Once your fixed up, use Carbon Copy Cloner instead and make sure to name the clone something differnet.
Most commonly used backup methods
Read this to max your Snow Leopards performacne, you may juat want to do that then CCC clone it and be sweet and fast again.
For Snow Leopard Speed Freaks
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