Sudden performance issues, crashing and beach ball

The last week or so Safari slowed down dramatically, and kept giving me the spinning beach ball. Now this is happening throughout my system, after a restart it seems to work ok for a few minutes, then will barely funciton at all in any application, usually resulting in a spinning beach ball that never stops, or the sytem freezes completely.
I'm running 10.8.4, have the RAM maxed out, plenty of free HD space. I'm done some basic troubleshotting inlcuding verifying the disc, and also ran DiscWarrior from an external DVD.
Still having the same issues.
I work at home and this is my main computer so I'm trying to get it fixed soon.
thanks in advance!
Jeff

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I have a macbook pro 13" bought in July 2009 with the 160Gb Hitachi 5400 rpm hardrive and 2Gb Ram. I also have the beach ball lag problem and have been reading many posts about it on this and other forums. However, I noticed today that in my System Profiler - Hardware overview, my sudden motion sensor (sms) is indicated as State: Disabled. I look at the state of the sms through the terminal window (sudo pmset -g) and is says sms 1!!! Something is wrong there! Then I executed "sudo dmesg | grep -i error | grep -i sms" to check whether there are any errors about SMS. and I get the following line:
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Help please! - Hard disk Volume Header problems and 'Beach Ball' hangs

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When the beach ball appears I can hear the hard disk making a scraping sound if this helps at all.
Please help me! Its driving me nuts! I am also currently working abroad hence I don't have my Mac OS X Tiger install disks on me otherwise I'd just do an archive and reinstall.
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It sounds as if you've attempted the appropriate fixes for your drive... Disk Utility, Disk Warrior, TechTool Pro and Onyx. If none of these utilities have repaired the problem then perhaps there is a hardware failure of some sort... perhaps a head crash has done some physical damage.
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It's unfortunate that you don't have your Tiger install discs as a reinstall of the OS might relieve the problem. But I doubt it since, as you say, "the disc makes a scraping sound". That suggests to me the problem may be physical damage or wear of the hard drive.
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I'd replace the drive, and probably buy an external enclosure (USB or Firewire) for the old drive to allow for data retrieval until it failed.
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This is a recent issue and I don't recall installing anything recently to cause a change. I have 2GB of RAM and 167GB available on my HD, so it shouldn't be a memory issue. I just cleared the cache and history, but it didn't seem to help.
Can anyone help me - I'd prefer to use an Apple product (Safari), but don't understand why it is failing me.
Thanks.

Hi,
It might be an idea to verify the hard drive with Disk Utility just to make sure the disk thrashing isn't a sign of some damage on the drive.
If the disk gets the all clear, try using Onyx and the settings shown on this page to see if it helps:
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Mail crashes with beach ball on composing email

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was an existing users email that had been previously drafted with content ( no attachemnts) in the message body.
Had to force quit mail and then restarted computer.
the previous email draft was then reopened and the beach ball appared immediately, all of this is ultimately ineracting with an IMAP server.
was able to copy the text from the message body and quit mail then ended up using a webmail application..
Mail is sending and receiving no problems.
I would like to look into some logs to get some clues on this one but not sure where to look ? As although I describe it as a crash I don't believe the system agrees - I can't see any thing under:
~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Mail.crash.log

I think I've diagnosed the problem. It was (I think) being caused by GrowlMail - a plugin installed by Growl. It seems to have started happening after the most recent Quicktime update, so that points to a possible incompatibility there....

Saving with Logic crashes (spinni9ng beach ball for EVER!)

The last couple of days have elapsed and ive been doing some heavy recording, i came back today to resume and every time i try to save my work, change any setting, or do practically anything, even record (toggling record button i mean) just brings up the spinning beach ball of death and it doesnt recover. Ive tried re-installing logic with no success. I can still transfer files between arrange pages so there is still some functionality.......
Now last night i was very very drunk and i messed about with a few thing i shouldnt have, but pretty much have no memeory of exactly what those things were. I figured a fresh install of the program would just revert me back to factory settings but im still having the same problems.
Any one got any ideas with this? Apart from 'dont drink and record' any suggestions will be taken on board very gratefully.
Ewan.

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Hello all,
I having an issue, or should I say issues with Premiere CS4 on a networked Mac, and mac drive. Everytime I go to open a project premiere generates new peak files, which makes opening a 2 minute proj take like 20 minutes. And also it places a bunch of peak files in the folder which takes up space.
Also, everytime I switch programs (like say go from Premiere to Safari, and back to Premiere) or the computer sits for a bit of time, I get the beach ball (of death) for like 5+ minutes before I can do anything with the project. This only happens on my computer, of which we have 4 networked and 1 is connected direct to the network drive which is a Lacie brand Quadra.
PLEASE HELP!!!!!! Hahaha.
Thanks,
Greg

Greg,
As you know, the .PEK files are the Waveform Display. The .CFA files are the Conformed Audio. These are necessary for PrPro to edit, and to have the Waveform displayed.
My guess would be that PrPro is loosing these, because of the networked environment. I'd try with the Assets copied to the local HDD, and make sure that all Scratch Disks are located locally, as well. If this works, once PrPro has gone through the process of .PEK and .CFA writing, so long as these files are not moved, that should be it, and PrPro should be able to find these files and use them, without additional Conforming and PEK generation.
I've had similar occur on mapped network drives, and just doing the copy and redirecting PrPro to those copies (Relink Media) has cured it. I now only use network drives as storage for Assets, and not to provide same to PrPro for editing.
Good luck,
Hunt

Printers and beach balls on Macbook

Whenever I attempt to print anything all I get is beachballs. I cannot delete the printers and reinstall becasue I get beachballs when I go into the settings. No recent software updates and no recent changes to my network or anything like that. Any thoughts?

Hi @AugieMom!
I understand your getting a beach ball on your Mac when attempting to print. I would recommend running a repair disk permission. A repair disk permission will speed up the Mac and resolve issues like beach balling.
I have located a quick YouTube tutorial regarding Clean/Speed Up Your Mac "Repair Permissions" - Mac Speed
Once the repair disk permissions is complete just close the window and restart the Mac. After the computer reboots check to see if you are able to print without getting the beach ball.
Hope that helps and thanks again for posting on the HP Forums.
Let me know how it goes!
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