Time Machine very slow, Safari and iTunes have to Force Quit
Anyone else having these issues after Mavericks "upgrade"?
Time Machine is so slow as to be ineffective of useless, symtoms:
- takes hours to prepare and run a backup of a couple of GB to the Time Capsule, anything up to 20 hrs!
- constantly revising the amount to be backed up, up and down
- seems to freeze periodically ad stick part way through with no change to the backed amount for hours, then speeds up, freezes, speeds up
- time remaining estimate alternates between "casculating, estimates of hours and seconds! wildly inaccurate
- it's been saying 5 seconds remaining for the last 2 hrs.
- have done two backup verifications to check for Time Capsule problems - none
- only two successful backups achieved since the Maverisks "upgrade" due to the time it takes
- both Time Capsule and Airport Express have the latest firmware and software
Coincident with this, both Safari and iTunes (the latest Mavericks compatible versions) both freeze when trying to quit them - have to force quit. Both experience random slow downs and with the spinning rainbow beachball.
Looks like a Mavericks problem with the Wifi and Timemachine?
Using a late 2008 aluminium unibody Macbook with 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD, 100Gb of free space o the SSD. Connecting via Wifi to Time Capsule (2TB, with 1.8TB free) and Airport Express (both n Wifi).
Check whether there is a crash report:
Go to your Applications Folder and open your Utilities Folder. Open the application Console.
In the left-hand column, click on Crash Reporter.
Click on the small triangle under Crash Reporter in the l/h column and they will all be listed.
Scroll down to the latest Safari report and click on it.
Now click on the r/h column (which now only shows THAT crash report and then Command-a to copy it all.
Come back here and Command-v it to post it here!
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