Spontaneous eject

A few weeks ago I had to restore my jam-packed iPod (160GB, about 1 yr old) as iTunes claimed to be unable to read it, yet my virus scan was plowing through it just fine. A few days later, in the middle of refilling the bugger, "unable to sync" messages kept popping up. So, I quit everything and restarted the computer. Now the iPod spontaneously ejects as soon as it appears on the desktop. A manual reset has no effect. How can I convince it to stay connected?

No idea off the top of my head of anything specific, but a few questions which might help someone think of something.
Have you tried a different Sync cord?
Have you noticed this happens when you are holding or otherwise moving the iPod? Or does it happen when the iPod and cord are laying untouched on the desk?
Are you plugging in directly to your computer or via a USB hub? I have had bad hubs spontaneously disconnect external hard drives before.
Patrick

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    For references see:
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    and
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    Dennis

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    I am not a daily time machine backup-er, as I don't have much to backup on a daily basis (and I weekly backup to an alternative disk using Super Duper). What I had noticed with the time machine disk, is that the preparation prior to the backup beginning was a massive 40+GB, certainly not the amount of data which would have been 'new'.
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    Anyone know what the above error message refers to, am I able to reformat the disk using the 'zero function', or has the disk failed and become unrecoverable?
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    Welcome to Apple Discussions.
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  • Time Machine "read-only" error across multiple drives

    Hello,
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    The problem is, this has happened with three separate backup drives. They are all G-Tech 2TB 4th Generation G-Drive external hard drives. So I'm wondering if there may be a Mac OS software problem, or perhaps a hardware problem.
    There's a lot to this story, so if you're game, read on.
    First, about a year ago, I noticed that my Mac Pro frequently spontaneously ejected the backup drive, for no apparent reason. I didn't deal with the problem right away because I was having other, pressing troubles with my display (which took forever to solve).
    In early-mid 2013, I tried a few disk repairs of my backup disk, as well as erasing the disk (and correctly formatting as Mac OS Extended Journaled). The disk was failing to mount at that point, so G-Tech sent me a replacement drive (a refurbished drive of exactly the same type).
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    So I was sent yet another replacement drive. I experienced the same problems, and in addtion, I once got a message saying the backup drive was full when it actually wasn't. So I tried a) using a different firewire cable, b) using this different cable on a different port. Same problems.
    In the meantime, I did some backups with an old Glyph drive, using the same FW800 port, and the same cable (the 2nd cable), and I had no problems. The reason I don't use this Glyph drive as my normal backup drive is that it is only 500 GB and not large enough to back up all three of my MP internal drives.
    A couple other items of note: back in August of 2013, one of my MP's internal hard drives had to be replaced (it was determined to be having multiple input/output errors). Also, I've had a intermittent problem with the MP spontaneoulsy ejecting a couple different Lexar USB flash drives, even after I reformatted them repeatedly (but this has never happened with my ADATA flash drives). I suppose these things may be unrelated, but for the sake of completeness, I thought I'd include them.
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    Hello,
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    The problem is, this has happened with three separate backup drives. They are all G-Tech 2TB 4th Generation G-Drive external hard drives. So I'm wondering if there may be a Mac OS software problem, or perhaps a hardware problem.
    There's a lot to this story, so if you're game, read on.
    First, about a year ago, I noticed that my Mac Pro frequently spontaneously ejected the backup drive, for no apparent reason. I didn't deal with the problem right away because I was having other, pressing troubles with my display (which took forever to solve).
    In early-mid 2013, I tried a few disk repairs of my backup disk, as well as erasing the disk (and correctly formatting as Mac OS Extended Journaled). The disk was failing to mount at that point, so G-Tech sent me a replacement drive (a refurbished drive of exactly the same type).
    With the replacement drive, I was getting the same "read-only" message. So I tried a few times erasing/reformatting/repartitioning this drive. No luck.
    So I was sent yet another replacement drive. I experienced the same problems, and in addtion, I once got a message saying the backup drive was full when it actually wasn't. So I tried a) using a different firewire cable, b) using this different cable on a different port. Same problems.
    In the meantime, I did some backups with an old Glyph drive, using the same FW800 port, and the same cable (the 2nd cable), and I had no problems. The reason I don't use this Glyph drive as my normal backup drive is that it is only 500 GB and not large enough to back up all three of my MP internal drives.
    A couple other items of note: back in August of 2013, one of my MP's internal hard drives had to be replaced (it was determined to be having multiple input/output errors). Also, I've had a intermittent problem with the MP spontaneoulsy ejecting a couple different Lexar USB flash drives, even after I reformatted them repeatedly (but this has never happened with my ADATA flash drives). I suppose these things may be unrelated, but for the sake of completeness, I thought I'd include them.
    So it seems like maybe it's a compatibility issue the G-Tech Drives? I'd be surprised...but I'm stumped. Anyone have any ideas?
    Thanks.

  • Kanguru Flash Drives

    I'm thinking of buying an 8GB flash drive for use on the firewire port. I can't use ExpressCard since my Verizon aircard uses it, and I find USB flash drives to be slow.
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    Most important question: does anyone know if the Kanguru drives will run not just on Mac OS X, but also under Windows Vista running on the MacBook Pro? (Note I run Vista natively on a separate partition, not through Parallels or another emulator.)
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    Check whether the drive is listed in Conmputer Management->Disk Management. If so, add a drive letter to it:
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    Balaji Kundalam

  • Why can't I get the Mac to accept a dvd which it did yesterday evening?

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    Hi a brody,
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  • Why does my WD drive eject spontaneously then remount soon afterwards?

    My WD external drive ejects spontaneously then remounts soon afterwards.  I will receive the standard message "This drive was not ejected properly...blah blah blah"  I've checked out the drive with disk utility and everything seems to be OK.  The drive seems to have no problems, it stores data just fine.  I've got another WD drive mounted and it doesn't have this behavior.  Any suggestions?

    webweave,
    Welcome to the Apple discussions!
    Generally, as discussed above, having 2 mount points for the same disk in the volumes folder won't prevent a successful backup. But in your case (#15!), that's a problem. More often than not, they are being created by Time Machine because you already have one or more instances of the Time Capsule disk mounted on your desktop. Ejecting the TC disk when it is not needed is the best way to avoid creating multiple mount points.
    If you have any further questions, please post them in a new thread. You can refer back to this discussion with a link if necessary.
    Cheers!

  • Why does my MacBook spontaneously crash/restart?

    My MacBook is suddenly restarting for no apparent reason.  What follows is a detailed description of the issue and surrounding circumstances, various elements of which may or may not be relevant.
    Several months ago I noticed my trackpad button had stopped clicking reliably.  About two months ago I realized that the replacement laptop battery I was using (purchased on Amazon as genuine Apple product, but probably not really made by Apple) had begun to swell just enough to press up from the underside of the trackpad and prevent it from functioning properly.  I removed the battery and have been using the machine with AC power so that the trackpad will work right.  I intend to replace the battery with a new one directly from Apple, but given the cost I would like to make sure I can resolve my other issues first.  I have included the above because it was roughly around the time I began using my MacBook without a battery that the symptoms below began.  Using the computer without a battery may or may not be related these issues, but it is the only thing I can think of that changed anywhere near when the problems began.
    Around this time, the backlight on the built-in display began to regularly (1-5 times per hour of use) shut itself off.  The LCD stays on and can still be seen faintly in ambient light, but the backlight turns itself off as if I had turned the brightness all the way down using the F1 key.  The brightness control itself seems to stay up, however, as the temporary fix I was able to find by researching the issue online is to turn the brightness all the way down (using the F1 key) and then back up again (using F2) and display brightness rises with my pressing the F2 display-brighter button.  This would last anywhere from 1-1000 minutes (approximate) of use before shutting off (backlight) again and I would have to do the same thing.  The length of time until the next shutoff seems to be shorter the brighter I have the display brightness set, but the symptom comes and goes in fits and spurts.  Sometimes I can't keep it on more than 15 seconds and I just give up and drag whatever windows I'm working on to my external monitor (which functions fine throughout - I use the external and built-in displays side-by-side with a mini-DVI to DVI adapter), but other times it will go for a week just fine.  This may or may not be related to my more serious issue below, but it began just in advance of the below and has continued to the present.
    About the same time I stopped using the battery and started experiencing display backlight shutoffs, my computer began spontaneously crashing and restarting itself.   The first time it happened I was attempting to play a video (MP4 I think) from the hard drive in QuickTime Player.  The video played for a few minutes, and then my computer crashed and began to restart itself.  I let it restart and tried playing the video several more times, even using VLC instead of QuickTime as the player, but each time the computer would play a few seconds to a few minutes before dying and restarting.  In the hours and days that followed, the machine would randomly restart every 1-100 (approximately) minutes of use.  The shutdowns seemed more likely to occur when attempting to play video of any format, local or online, and for a while I couldn't even play a YouTube vid without the computer shutting down.  Sometimes the machine would restart to my login screen, but then if I logged in right away it would begin the login process but then die and restart again.  If I waited a while before logging in it seemed to "calm down" and would login successfully.  The restarts were more likely during video playback, but not exclusive to this task.
    I noticed that the restarts seemed to especially come in "clumps," and that allowing the machine a rest seemed to help.  I also noticed that the fan frequently (but not always) sounded like it was running at full power at the time of restart.  I concluded that the restarts were likely the result of overheating.  I disassembled the machine in order to clean out the fan and heat sink.  I didn't find much lint / blockage, but I thoroughly cleaned out what was there and did a cursory look around the internals for anything that might appear to be out of order, but I didn't find anything remarkable.  The restarts continued, together with high fan speeds just before, so I downloaded iStat Pro to monitor internal temperatures in my status bar.  I watched temps pretty closely, especially when I heard the fan, but the highest I ever saw was 80 degrees celsius on the CPU die.  I don't know a lot about CPU temperature ranges, but from some cursory research it looks like that is way below the cutoff for an automatic shutdown (and besides, it seems like it should shutdown rather than restart for overheating).  I watched to see if the restarts happened at the same temperature every time, but they varied widely, sometimes even occurring below 65 C, with or without high fan noise.
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    Here is what I have tried, in total:
    - Restarted the machine
    - Disassembled laptop and cleaned out the fan / heat sink
    - Watched temperatures (no apparent correlation)
    - Replaced HDD and reinstalled OSX from scratch (by download from Apple)
    - Ran Apple Hardware Test (no problems found)
    - Software Update ("your software is up to date")
    - Checked for System Diagnostic Reports in Console following spontaneous restarts, found none present
    - Reset NVRAM / PRAM
    - Reset SMC
    Those last two resets I did just prior to posting and so far I haven't seen the crash/restart, although I have seen the dead backlight.  It hasn't been long though so we'll see. . .
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    MacBook 3,1
    13-inch Late 2007
    2.2 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo
    Graphics: Intel GMA X3100 144MB
    OS X Lion 10.7.5
    4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
    Seagate STL1000LM014 1TB SSHD (my upgrade)
    Other:
    Disk Usage: 22GB out of 1TB
    No antivirus installed
    No MacKeeper installed
    kextstat is empty
    Processes:
      PID TTY           TIME CMD
        1 ??         0:00.48 /sbin/launchd
       10 ??         0:00.77 /usr/libexec/kextd
       11 ??         0:00.69 /usr/libexec/UserEventAgent -l System
       12 ??         0:00.19 /usr/sbin/notifyd
       13 ??         0:00.07 /usr/sbin/diskarbitrationd
       14 ??         0:00.70 /usr/libexec/configd
       15 ??         0:00.09 /usr/sbin/syslogd
       16 ??         0:00.16 /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CarbonC ore.framework/Versions/A/Support/fseventsd
       17 ??         0:00.08 /usr/sbin/distnoted daemon
       18 ??         0:01.77 /usr/libexec/opendirectoryd
       19 ??         0:00.33 /System/Library/CoreServices/powerd.bundle/powerd
       20 ??         0:00.32 /usr/sbin/blued
       22 ??         0:00.45 /usr/sbin/securityd -i
       24 ??         0:00.96 /System/Library/CoreServices/coreservicesd
       33 ??         0:00.10 /usr/sbin/ntpd -c /private/etc/ntp-restrict.conf -n -g -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -f /var/db/ntp.drift
       36 ??         0:00.08 /usr/libexec/warmd
       37 ??         0:00.08 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MobileDevice.framework/Versions/A/Resources/u sbmuxd -launchd
       40 ??         0:00.02 /usr/libexec/stackshot -t
       43 ??         0:00.08 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/GenerationalStorage.framework/Versions/A/Supp ort/revisiond
       47 ??         0:05.09 /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/Metadata.framework /Support/mds
       48 ??         0:00.24 /usr/sbin/mDNSResponder -launchd
       50 ??         0:00.93 /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow console
       52 ??         0:00.02 /usr/sbin/KernelEventAgent
       54 ??         0:00.02 /usr/libexec/hidd
       56 ??         0:00.01 /sbin/dynamic_pager -F /private/var/vm/swapfile
       61 ??         0:00.04 autofsd
       63 ??         0:00.34 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ApplePushService.framework/applepushserviced
       64 ??         0:00.17 /usr/libexec/taskgated -p -s
       85 ??         0:00.07 /usr/sbin/netbiosd
       87 ??         0:10.46 /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/CoreGraphic s.framework/Resources/WindowServer -daemon
       88 ??         0:00.02 /System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/CVMServer
       95 ??         0:00.03 /System/Library/CoreServices/logind
      102 ??         0:00.02 /sbin/launchd
      104 ??         0:00.25 /System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/CVMCompiler 1
      106 ??         0:00.37 /usr/sbin/coreaudiod
      108 ??         0:00.02 /sbin/launchd
      116 ??         0:00.11 /sbin/launchd
      119 ??         0:00.47 /usr/libexec/UserEventAgent -l Aqua
      120 ??         0:00.14 /usr/sbin/distnoted agent
      122 ??         0:00.43 /usr/libexec/xpchelper
      127 ??         0:04.22 /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit -psn_0_20485
      130 ??         0:16.36 /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari -psn_0_32776
      131 ??         0:02.46 /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/MacOS/Dock
      132 ??         0:00.30 /System/Library/CoreServices/talagent
      133 ??         0:03.83 /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/MacOS/SystemUIServer
      134 ??         0:01.12 /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder
      140 ??         0:00.51 /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/ATS.framewo rk/Support/fontd
      142 ??         0:00.42 /System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/CVMCompiler 1
      143 ??         0:00.08 /usr/libexec/lsboxd
      144 ??         0:00.04 /usr/sbin/filecoordinationd
      146 ??         0:00.07 /usr/sbin/cupsd -l
      147 ??         0:00.02 /usr/sbin/pboard
      149 ??         0:00.38 com.apple.dock.extra
      155 ??         0:00.23 /usr/sbin/ocspd
      156 ??         0:02.35 /usr/libexec/activitymonitord
      157 ??         0:23.68 /System/Library/StagedFrameworks/Safari/WebKit2.framework/WebProcess.app/Conten ts/MacOS/WebProcess /System/Library/StagedFrameworks/Safari/WebKit2.framework/WebKit2 -type webprocess -servicename com.apple.WebKit.WebProcess-130-0x10cc85280 -localization en_US -client-identifier com.apple.Safari -ui-process-name Safari
      159 ??         0:00.45 /System/Library/Services/AppleSpell.service/Contents/MacOS/AppleSpell
      160 ??         0:00.12 /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CFNetwo rk.framework/Versions/A/Support/cookied
      164 ??         0:00.03 /usr/libexec/warmd_agent
      169 ??         0:00.10 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/IMCore.framework/imagent.app/Contents/MacOS/i magent
      170 ??         0:01.32 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/HelpData.framework/Versions/A/Resources/helpd
      176 ??         0:00.09 /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesH elper -psn_0_77843
      179 ??         0:00.11 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FindMyMac.framework/Resources/FindMyMacd
      186 ??         0:00.90 /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/Metadata.framework /Versions/A/Support/mdworker -s mdworker -c MDSImporterWorker -m com.apple.mdworker.pool.0
      187 ??         0:00.02 /sbin/launchd
      189 ??         0:00.44 /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/Metadata.framework /Versions/A/Support/mdworker -s mdworker -c MDSImporterWorker -m com.apple.mdworker.pool.0
      190 ??         0:00.02 /usr/sbin/distnoted agent
      192 ??         0:00.03 automountd
      193 ??         0:00.09 /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/Metadata.framework /Versions/A/Support/mdwrite
      194 ??         0:00.11 /usr/libexec/xpchelper
      203 ??         0:00.03 /usr/libexec/launchdadd
      204 ??         0:00.24 /System/Library/Frameworks/QuickLook.framework/Resources/quicklookd.app/Content s/MacOS/quicklookd
      205 ??         0:00.90 /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/MacOS/Terminal -psn_0_114716
      207 ttys000    0:00.06 login -pf Christopher
      208 ttys000    0:00.02 -bash
      213 ttys000    0:00.01 ps -A
    Preferences:
    total 1328
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -             712 Jan 21 00:07 .GlobalPreferences.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 20 20:36 .GlobalPreferences.plist.lockfile
    drwx------  42 501  20  -            1428 Jan 25 17:51 ByHost
    drwxr-xr-x   3 501  20  -             102 Jan 22 01:11 Macromedia
    drwxr-xr-x   3 501  20  -             102 Jan 24 13:39 Microsoft
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -            1768 Jan 25 12:56 MobileMeAccounts.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 20 20:38 MobileMeAccounts.plist.lockfile
    -rw-r--r--   1 501  20  -            8819 Jan 21 00:02 QuickTime Preferences
    drwxr-xr-x   5 501  20  -             170 Jan 20 20:42 SDMHelpData
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -             837 Jan 25 17:51 com.apple.ActivityMonitor.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 25 17:43 com.apple.ActivityMonitor.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -             198 Jan 25 13:02 com.apple.AddressBook.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 20 20:37 com.apple.AddressBook.plist.lockfile
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 20 20:38 com.apple.AddressBook.sync.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -              95 Jan 20 21:38 com.apple.AddressBookSourceSync.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 20 20:38 com.apple.AddressBookSourceSync.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -             131 Jan 20 20:37 com.apple.BezelServices.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 20 20:37 com.apple.BezelServices.plist.lockfile
    -rw-r--r--   1 501  20  -             350 Jan 25 17:47 com.apple.BluetoothAudio.plist
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -            6433 Jan 25 13:12 com.apple.Console.LSSharedFileList.plist
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              com.apple.quarantine              38
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              com.apple.quarantine              38
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    -rw-------   1 501  20  -            1950 Jan 25 12:56 com.apple.iCal.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 20 20:38 com.apple.iCal.plist.lockfile
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    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 21 00:03 com.apple.iPod.plist.lockfile
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    -rw-------   1 501  20  -          121565 Jan 25 16:39 com.apple.iTunes.plist
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    -rw-------   1 501  20  -              61 Jan 25 13:22 com.apple.iTunesHelper.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 25 13:22 com.apple.iTunesHelper.plist.lockfile
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    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 21 00:02 com.apple.loginitems.plist.lockfile
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    One final note - when the system spontaneously restarts, it doesn't properly shutdown as it would if I initiated a restart, it just suddenly dies, black screen, and then I hear the startup tone and it begins to restart.
    Obviously this is an older machine and I've gotten a lot of good use out of it, but I still need it and don't have the budget right now to replace it so any help you can offer would be much appreciated.  I'm pretty much stymied.
    Please let me know if anything is missing / unclear!

    My MacBook is suddenly restarting for no apparent reason.  What follows is a detailed description of the issue and surrounding circumstances, various elements of which may or may not be relevant.
    Several months ago I noticed my trackpad button had stopped clicking reliably.  About two months ago I realized that the replacement laptop battery I was using (purchased on Amazon as genuine Apple product, but probably not really made by Apple) had begun to swell just enough to press up from the underside of the trackpad and prevent it from functioning properly.  I removed the battery and have been using the machine with AC power so that the trackpad will work right.  I intend to replace the battery with a new one directly from Apple, but given the cost I would like to make sure I can resolve my other issues first.  I have included the above because it was roughly around the time I began using my MacBook without a battery that the symptoms below began.  Using the computer without a battery may or may not be related these issues, but it is the only thing I can think of that changed anywhere near when the problems began.
    Around this time, the backlight on the built-in display began to regularly (1-5 times per hour of use) shut itself off.  The LCD stays on and can still be seen faintly in ambient light, but the backlight turns itself off as if I had turned the brightness all the way down using the F1 key.  The brightness control itself seems to stay up, however, as the temporary fix I was able to find by researching the issue online is to turn the brightness all the way down (using the F1 key) and then back up again (using F2) and display brightness rises with my pressing the F2 display-brighter button.  This would last anywhere from 1-1000 minutes (approximate) of use before shutting off (backlight) again and I would have to do the same thing.  The length of time until the next shutoff seems to be shorter the brighter I have the display brightness set, but the symptom comes and goes in fits and spurts.  Sometimes I can't keep it on more than 15 seconds and I just give up and drag whatever windows I'm working on to my external monitor (which functions fine throughout - I use the external and built-in displays side-by-side with a mini-DVI to DVI adapter), but other times it will go for a week just fine.  This may or may not be related to my more serious issue below, but it began just in advance of the below and has continued to the present.
    About the same time I stopped using the battery and started experiencing display backlight shutoffs, my computer began spontaneously crashing and restarting itself.   The first time it happened I was attempting to play a video (MP4 I think) from the hard drive in QuickTime Player.  The video played for a few minutes, and then my computer crashed and began to restart itself.  I let it restart and tried playing the video several more times, even using VLC instead of QuickTime as the player, but each time the computer would play a few seconds to a few minutes before dying and restarting.  In the hours and days that followed, the machine would randomly restart every 1-100 (approximately) minutes of use.  The shutdowns seemed more likely to occur when attempting to play video of any format, local or online, and for a while I couldn't even play a YouTube vid without the computer shutting down.  Sometimes the machine would restart to my login screen, but then if I logged in right away it would begin the login process but then die and restart again.  If I waited a while before logging in it seemed to "calm down" and would login successfully.  The restarts were more likely during video playback, but not exclusive to this task.
    I noticed that the restarts seemed to especially come in "clumps," and that allowing the machine a rest seemed to help.  I also noticed that the fan frequently (but not always) sounded like it was running at full power at the time of restart.  I concluded that the restarts were likely the result of overheating.  I disassembled the machine in order to clean out the fan and heat sink.  I didn't find much lint / blockage, but I thoroughly cleaned out what was there and did a cursory look around the internals for anything that might appear to be out of order, but I didn't find anything remarkable.  The restarts continued, together with high fan speeds just before, so I downloaded iStat Pro to monitor internal temperatures in my status bar.  I watched temps pretty closely, especially when I heard the fan, but the highest I ever saw was 80 degrees celsius on the CPU die.  I don't know a lot about CPU temperature ranges, but from some cursory research it looks like that is way below the cutoff for an automatic shutdown (and besides, it seems like it should shutdown rather than restart for overheating).  I watched to see if the restarts happened at the same temperature every time, but they varied widely, sometimes even occurring below 65 C, with or without high fan noise.
    The issue persisted and was becoming a real problem for me, and I already had a HDD I was planning to upgrade to, so I decided to do the HDD swap and follow with a clean install of OSX (via download from Apple) rather than migrate from my old drive because I figured that would take care of any software issues.  After I swapped out the HDD and did a clean install it was three days or so until the display backlight cut out as before, and about a week before the first sudden restart, which brings us to the present.  Since that first restart, I've seen another 6 or so in the last 4 hours.  I have also noticed an occasional failure to get past the grey screen on an intentional shutdown (not the sudden restarts) since replacing the HDD and reinstalling OSX, but that only happens on occasion.  The only things I have installed since replacing the HDD other than the OS are MS Office for Mac 2011 (from CD) and then Flash and Silverlight plug-ins for Safari.  I've also transferred over some files from my old HDD using a USB caddy and have opened some documents, but I haven't run any applications or installers besides the aforementioned.  I haven't been able to transfer everything from the old HDD though, because the old drive (in a USB caddy) drive seems to spontaneously unmount, giving me the "the disk was not ejected properly" message and causing Finder to freeze up with a spinwheel of death and not recover after relaunching finder in the Force Quit dialog.  This seems to lead to the manual shutdown stalling on the grey screen as well (when means I have to use the button to force full shutdown).  This could just be a problem with my caddy though.
    Here is what I have tried, in total:
    - Restarted the machine
    - Disassembled laptop and cleaned out the fan / heat sink
    - Watched temperatures (no apparent correlation)
    - Replaced HDD and reinstalled OSX from scratch (by download from Apple)
    - Ran Apple Hardware Test (no problems found)
    - Software Update ("your software is up to date")
    - Checked for System Diagnostic Reports in Console following spontaneous restarts, found none present
    - Reset NVRAM / PRAM
    - Reset SMC
    Those last two resets I did just prior to posting and so far I haven't seen the crash/restart, although I have seen the dead backlight.  It hasn't been long though so we'll see. . .
    Here is what I am running:
    MacBook 3,1
    13-inch Late 2007
    2.2 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo
    Graphics: Intel GMA X3100 144MB
    OS X Lion 10.7.5
    4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
    Seagate STL1000LM014 1TB SSHD (my upgrade)
    Other:
    Disk Usage: 22GB out of 1TB
    No antivirus installed
    No MacKeeper installed
    kextstat is empty
    Processes:
      PID TTY           TIME CMD
        1 ??         0:00.48 /sbin/launchd
       10 ??         0:00.77 /usr/libexec/kextd
       11 ??         0:00.69 /usr/libexec/UserEventAgent -l System
       12 ??         0:00.19 /usr/sbin/notifyd
       13 ??         0:00.07 /usr/sbin/diskarbitrationd
       14 ??         0:00.70 /usr/libexec/configd
       15 ??         0:00.09 /usr/sbin/syslogd
       16 ??         0:00.16 /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CarbonC ore.framework/Versions/A/Support/fseventsd
       17 ??         0:00.08 /usr/sbin/distnoted daemon
       18 ??         0:01.77 /usr/libexec/opendirectoryd
       19 ??         0:00.33 /System/Library/CoreServices/powerd.bundle/powerd
       20 ??         0:00.32 /usr/sbin/blued
       22 ??         0:00.45 /usr/sbin/securityd -i
       24 ??         0:00.96 /System/Library/CoreServices/coreservicesd
       33 ??         0:00.10 /usr/sbin/ntpd -c /private/etc/ntp-restrict.conf -n -g -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -f /var/db/ntp.drift
       36 ??         0:00.08 /usr/libexec/warmd
       37 ??         0:00.08 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MobileDevice.framework/Versions/A/Resources/u sbmuxd -launchd
       40 ??         0:00.02 /usr/libexec/stackshot -t
       43 ??         0:00.08 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/GenerationalStorage.framework/Versions/A/Supp ort/revisiond
       47 ??         0:05.09 /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/Metadata.framework /Support/mds
       48 ??         0:00.24 /usr/sbin/mDNSResponder -launchd
       50 ??         0:00.93 /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow console
       52 ??         0:00.02 /usr/sbin/KernelEventAgent
       54 ??         0:00.02 /usr/libexec/hidd
       56 ??         0:00.01 /sbin/dynamic_pager -F /private/var/vm/swapfile
       61 ??         0:00.04 autofsd
       63 ??         0:00.34 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ApplePushService.framework/applepushserviced
       64 ??         0:00.17 /usr/libexec/taskgated -p -s
       85 ??         0:00.07 /usr/sbin/netbiosd
       87 ??         0:10.46 /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/CoreGraphic s.framework/Resources/WindowServer -daemon
       88 ??         0:00.02 /System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/CVMServer
       95 ??         0:00.03 /System/Library/CoreServices/logind
      102 ??         0:00.02 /sbin/launchd
      104 ??         0:00.25 /System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/CVMCompiler 1
      106 ??         0:00.37 /usr/sbin/coreaudiod
      108 ??         0:00.02 /sbin/launchd
      116 ??         0:00.11 /sbin/launchd
      119 ??         0:00.47 /usr/libexec/UserEventAgent -l Aqua
      120 ??         0:00.14 /usr/sbin/distnoted agent
      122 ??         0:00.43 /usr/libexec/xpchelper
      127 ??         0:04.22 /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit -psn_0_20485
      130 ??         0:16.36 /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari -psn_0_32776
      131 ??         0:02.46 /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/MacOS/Dock
      132 ??         0:00.30 /System/Library/CoreServices/talagent
      133 ??         0:03.83 /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/MacOS/SystemUIServer
      134 ??         0:01.12 /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder
      140 ??         0:00.51 /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/ATS.framewo rk/Support/fontd
      142 ??         0:00.42 /System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/CVMCompiler 1
      143 ??         0:00.08 /usr/libexec/lsboxd
      144 ??         0:00.04 /usr/sbin/filecoordinationd
      146 ??         0:00.07 /usr/sbin/cupsd -l
      147 ??         0:00.02 /usr/sbin/pboard
      149 ??         0:00.38 com.apple.dock.extra
      155 ??         0:00.23 /usr/sbin/ocspd
      156 ??         0:02.35 /usr/libexec/activitymonitord
      157 ??         0:23.68 /System/Library/StagedFrameworks/Safari/WebKit2.framework/WebProcess.app/Conten ts/MacOS/WebProcess /System/Library/StagedFrameworks/Safari/WebKit2.framework/WebKit2 -type webprocess -servicename com.apple.WebKit.WebProcess-130-0x10cc85280 -localization en_US -client-identifier com.apple.Safari -ui-process-name Safari
      159 ??         0:00.45 /System/Library/Services/AppleSpell.service/Contents/MacOS/AppleSpell
      160 ??         0:00.12 /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CFNetwo rk.framework/Versions/A/Support/cookied
      164 ??         0:00.03 /usr/libexec/warmd_agent
      169 ??         0:00.10 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/IMCore.framework/imagent.app/Contents/MacOS/i magent
      170 ??         0:01.32 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/HelpData.framework/Versions/A/Resources/helpd
      176 ??         0:00.09 /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesH elper -psn_0_77843
      179 ??         0:00.11 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FindMyMac.framework/Resources/FindMyMacd
      186 ??         0:00.90 /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/Metadata.framework /Versions/A/Support/mdworker -s mdworker -c MDSImporterWorker -m com.apple.mdworker.pool.0
      187 ??         0:00.02 /sbin/launchd
      189 ??         0:00.44 /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/Metadata.framework /Versions/A/Support/mdworker -s mdworker -c MDSImporterWorker -m com.apple.mdworker.pool.0
      190 ??         0:00.02 /usr/sbin/distnoted agent
      192 ??         0:00.03 automountd
      193 ??         0:00.09 /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/Metadata.framework /Versions/A/Support/mdwrite
      194 ??         0:00.11 /usr/libexec/xpchelper
      203 ??         0:00.03 /usr/libexec/launchdadd
      204 ??         0:00.24 /System/Library/Frameworks/QuickLook.framework/Resources/quicklookd.app/Content s/MacOS/quicklookd
      205 ??         0:00.90 /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/MacOS/Terminal -psn_0_114716
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      208 ttys000    0:00.02 -bash
      213 ttys000    0:00.01 ps -A
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    total 1328
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -             712 Jan 21 00:07 .GlobalPreferences.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 20 20:36 .GlobalPreferences.plist.lockfile
    drwx------  42 501  20  -            1428 Jan 25 17:51 ByHost
    drwxr-xr-x   3 501  20  -             102 Jan 22 01:11 Macromedia
    drwxr-xr-x   3 501  20  -             102 Jan 24 13:39 Microsoft
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -            1768 Jan 25 12:56 MobileMeAccounts.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 20 20:38 MobileMeAccounts.plist.lockfile
    -rw-r--r--   1 501  20  -            8819 Jan 21 00:02 QuickTime Preferences
    drwxr-xr-x   5 501  20  -             170 Jan 20 20:42 SDMHelpData
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -             837 Jan 25 17:51 com.apple.ActivityMonitor.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 25 17:43 com.apple.ActivityMonitor.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -             198 Jan 25 13:02 com.apple.AddressBook.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 20 20:37 com.apple.AddressBook.plist.lockfile
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 20 20:38 com.apple.AddressBook.sync.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -              95 Jan 20 21:38 com.apple.AddressBookSourceSync.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 20 20:38 com.apple.AddressBookSourceSync.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -             131 Jan 20 20:37 com.apple.BezelServices.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 20 20:37 com.apple.BezelServices.plist.lockfile
    -rw-r--r--   1 501  20  -             350 Jan 25 17:47 com.apple.BluetoothAudio.plist
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -            6433 Jan 25 13:12 com.apple.Console.LSSharedFileList.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 25 13:07 com.apple.Console.LSSharedFileList.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -            2011 Jan 25 17:50 com.apple.Console.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 25 12:57 com.apple.Console.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -            1678 Jan 25 12:56 com.apple.FontRegistry.user.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 25 12:56 com.apple.FontRegistry.user.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -             770 Jan 25 13:22 com.apple.Image_Capture.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 24 13:23 com.apple.Image_Capture.plist.lockfile
    -rw-r--r--   1 501  20  -           16384 Jan 24 22:00 com.apple.LaunchServices.QuarantineEventsV2
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -             375 Jan 25 12:56 com.apple.LaunchServices.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 20 20:36 com.apple.LaunchServices.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -             119 Jan 24 13:23 com.apple.PTPCamera.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 24 13:23 com.apple.PTPCamera.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -             623 Jan 25 17:14 com.apple.PreferenceSync.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 20 21:37 com.apple.PreferenceSync.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -             101 Jan 21 13:14 com.apple.PubSubAgent.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 20 21:07 com.apple.PubSubAgent.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------@  1 501  20  -             133 Jan 20 23:22 com.apple.Safari.RSS.plist
              com.apple.quarantine              38
    -rwxr-xr-x@  1 501  20  -               0 Jan 20 23:22 com.apple.Safari.RSS.plist.lockfile
              com.apple.quarantine              38
    -rw-------@  1 501  20  -            3947 Jan 25 17:47 com.apple.Safari.plist
              com.apple.quarantine              38
    -rwxr-xr-x@  1 501  20  -               0 Jan 20 23:22 com.apple.Safari.plist.lockfile
              com.apple.quarantine              38
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -           11489 Jan 25 17:47 com.apple.ServicesMenu.Services.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 20 20:37 com.apple.ServicesMenu.Services.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -             177 Jan 20 20:37 com.apple.SetupAssistant.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 20 20:36 com.apple.SetupAssistant.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -             390 Jan 25 13:15 com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 25 13:15 com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -             173 Jan 25 17:39 com.apple.SystemProfiler.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 25 17:33 com.apple.SystemProfiler.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -           15423 Jan 25 17:51 com.apple.Terminal.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 25 16:22 com.apple.Terminal.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -            4057 Jan 25 17:47 com.apple.TextEdit.LSSharedFileList.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 24 13:21 com.apple.TextEdit.LSSharedFileList.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -            2228 Jan 25 17:28 com.apple.TextEdit.SandboxedPersistentURLs.LSSharedFileList.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 22 13:43 com.apple.TextEdit.SandboxedPersistentURLs.LSSharedFileList.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -              81 Jan 25 17:16 com.apple.TextEdit.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 22 14:02 com.apple.TextEdit.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -            3618 Jan 21 23:32 com.apple.appstore.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 21 23:32 com.apple.appstore.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -            1024 Jan 22 01:04 com.apple.diskimages.fsck
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -            7292 Jan 25 17:47 com.apple.dock.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 20 20:37 com.apple.dock.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -             787 Jan 20 20:37 com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 20 20:37 com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -           12375 Jan 25 17:47 com.apple.finder.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 20 20:37 com.apple.finder.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -             182 Jan 24 19:42 com.apple.frameworks.diskimages.uiagent.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 22 01:04 com.apple.frameworks.diskimages.uiagent.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -             393 Jan 25 16:39 com.apple.help.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 21 00:02 com.apple.help.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -             229 Jan 25 13:53 com.apple.iApps.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 21 00:08 com.apple.iApps.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -              95 Jan 25 17:47 com.apple.iCal.helper.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 20 20:37 com.apple.iCal.helper.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -            1950 Jan 25 12:56 com.apple.iCal.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 20 20:38 com.apple.iCal.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -            1058 Jan 25 16:39 com.apple.iPod.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 21 00:03 com.apple.iPod.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -           14702 Jan 21 00:08 com.apple.iTunes.eq.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 21 00:08 com.apple.iTunes.eq.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -          121565 Jan 25 16:39 com.apple.iTunes.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 21 00:02 com.apple.iTunes.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -              61 Jan 25 13:22 com.apple.iTunesHelper.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 25 13:22 com.apple.iTunesHelper.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -             457 Jan 25 13:21 com.apple.internetconfigpriv.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 21 21:48 com.apple.internetconfigpriv.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -            1104 Jan 25 12:56 com.apple.loginitems.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 21 00:02 com.apple.loginitems.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -             205 Jan 25 17:51 com.apple.loginwindow.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 20 20:38 com.apple.loginwindow.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -             138 Jan 22 01:10 com.apple.quicklookconfig.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 22 01:10 com.apple.quicklookconfig.plist.lockfile
    -rw-r--r--   1 501  20  -           20514 Jan 21 00:02 com.apple.quicktime.plugin.preferences.plist
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -           18328 Jan 25 17:50 com.apple.recentitems.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 20 20:39 com.apple.recentitems.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  compressed    326 Jan 20 20:36 com.apple.scheduler.plist
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -              63 Jan 20 20:36 com.apple.screensaver.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 20 20:36 com.apple.screensaver.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -           10038 Jan 25 17:47 com.apple.sidebarlists.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 20 20:38 com.apple.sidebarlists.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -              54 Jan 20 20:37 com.apple.spaces.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 20 20:37 com.apple.spaces.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -             194 Jan 21 23:32 com.apple.storeagent.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 21 23:32 com.apple.storeagent.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -             127 Jan 20 20:37 com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 20 20:37 com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist.lockfile
    -rwx------   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 20 20:37 com.apple.syncserver.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -             347 Jan 25 16:10 com.apple.systempreferences.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 20 20:37 com.apple.systempreferences.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -              82 Jan 25 17:47 com.apple.systemuiserver.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 20 20:37 com.apple.systemuiserver.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -             585 Jan 20 20:39 com.apple.ubd.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 20 20:38 com.apple.ubd.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -             370 Jan 20 20:37 com.apple.universalaccess.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 20 20:36 com.apple.universalaccess.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -           11908 Jan 25 13:21 com.microsoft.Word.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 24 13:35 com.microsoft.Word.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -            1461 Jan 25 13:42 com.microsoft.autoupdate2.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 24 13:30 com.microsoft.autoupdate2.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -              92 Jan 24 13:39 com.microsoft.error_reporting.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 24 13:39 com.microsoft.error_reporting.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -          163200 Jan 25 13:21 com.microsoft.office.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 24 13:39 com.microsoft.office.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -              81 Jan 24 13:34 com.microsoft.office.setupassistant.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 24 13:34 com.microsoft.office.setupassistant.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -              81 Jan 24 13:39 com.microsoft.outlook.database_daemon.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 24 13:39 com.microsoft.outlook.database_daemon.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -              59 Jan 24 13:34 com.microsoft.outlook.office_reminders.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 24 13:34 com.microsoft.outlook.office_reminders.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------@  1 501  20  -             151 Jan 24 22:03 com.microsoft.silverlight.plist
              com.apple.quarantine              59
    -rwxr-xr-x@  1 501  20  -               0 Jan 24 22:03 com.microsoft.silverlight.plist.lockfile
              com.apple.quarantine              59
    -rw-------   1 0    20  -             109 Jan 22 01:13 com.solidstatenetworks.awkhost.plist
    -rwxrwxrwx   1 0    20  -               0 Jan 22 01:10 com.solidstatenetworks.awkhost.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -             562 Jan 21 00:02 loginwindow.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 20 20:37 loginwindow.plist.lockfile
    -rw-------   1 501  20  -             122 Jan 25 17:47 pbs.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 501  20  -               0 Jan 20 20:37 pbs.plist.lockfile
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