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10.8 Notification Center occasionally freezes system
My Mac Pro 5,1 sometimes freezes when I open the Notification Center, and it usually recovers by itself about 10 minutes later. I'd like to know why and how to fix it.
When this happens, the ...
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2010 Mac Pro beachballing/freezing
My machine is a 2010 Mac Pro 2 x 2.66 6-core intel xeon with 32 GBs of ram running Mac OS X 10.8.3. Just the other day it started to beach ball after about an hour of use. It doesn't make any ...
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Momentary freeze in Mac OS X on USB device atachment
This seems to have only started recently, but every time I attach a USB device or removable media (SD Card) to my Mac Book Pro running OS X 10.8.3 there is a freeze in the mouse cursor for a few ...
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Time machine freezes mac?
I had just installed new SSD on main bay and move HDD instead of SuperDrive on my 2011 MBP. All works perfectly but Time Machine. It freezes entire mac when I trying open Options on Time machine ...
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Freeze issue after installing an optical bay drive
I am having issues after I installed another drive in the optical bay. When I wake the computer from sleep, it randomly freezes within 0-5 minutes. I cannot do anything, the mouse won't move, trackpad ...
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Is it a bad practice to mount network/slow shares under `/Volumes`?
I'm using curlftpfs with macfuse to mount some ftp sites through automount. The mount directories for each share is in /Volumes folder. Now iTunes on each startup tries to read ...
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How can I dismiss a frozen “Deleting Trash” dialog box?
I have the trash dialog box up, and it's frozen. What process needs to be killed in order to remove it, without having to restart?
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Cannot open Mail Preferences in Mountain Lion
I have a user that whenever she tries to open mail preferences it consistently locks up with the pinwheel icon and requires her to force quit mail. Mac mail was fine until a gmail account was added to ...
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What might cause mouse and keyboard freezes after updating to OSX 10.8.2?
After the 10.8.2 update, keyboard and mouse input is hanging intermittently on my 2011 MacBook Air. It occurs in several applications (have tested with Safari and App Store). The keyboard input and ...
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Time Machine Backup freezing computer
Time Machine on my computer is trying to backup onto a external hard drive, but the only thing I get is the famous beach ball of death which makes my computer extremely slow.
When I go to cosole.app ...
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MacBook frozen immediately after logging in
I've had an ongoing issue (since Snow Leopard and now on Lion) with my MacBook Air. After a restart or when I boot the machine up, I type in my password to login, and then about 25% of the time it ...
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OSX able to throttle down CPU on heavy usage?
I have a company macbook with a 4 core 2,8Ghz i7 (to much power for a "laptop" if you ask me, whatever). Sadly the cooler seems not to be able to handle 100% cpu usage. Sometimes filevault stresses ...
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Operating System becomes unstable after prolonged use
My setup
uname -a prints:
Darwin Jutsu.local 11.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 11.2.0: Tue Aug 9 20:54:00 PDT 2011;
root:xnu-1699.24.8~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
Mac OS X Version: 10.7.3 as of this post
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3 finger select and drag freezes Finder
Using the 3 finger drag to swipe across document icons and then dragging from one finder window to another (say drag and dropping to an external drive) freezes the icons in their position on the ...
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How do I determine what is locking up my machine?
My MBP is suddenly locking up to the point that only a power down will fix it. Neither command+alt+esc or command+alt+shift+esc do anything. It started by getting some nice screens in multiple ...
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Why does Safari freeze on YouTube HTML5 videos?
I'm in YouTube HTML5 trial, and the experience is terrible with Safari.
Every video is lagging severely, and the browser gets unresponsive constantly.
I have zero problems with the Flash version, ...
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How can I get my MacBook to stop freezing after I switch back to Mac OS from Windows 7 in Bootcamp
I have a problem I could not find anywhere else. Maybe somebody here has an idea on how to solve it.
I have a MacBook Pro, early 2011, 2.2 GHz i7 with the AMD Radeon HD 6750M and 1680 x 1050 display. ...
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How to fix a hanging Logic Pro 9.1.5 on Snow Leopard?
I'm using Logic Pro 9.1.5 on my MacBook Pro (2.4 Ghz CPU, 7200 RPM HDD). I have Snow Leopard.
When I'm doing nothing special, working on my project, Logic sometimes freezes and I'm stuck with a ...
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SecurityAgent causing a freeze
Intermittently, I witness a freeze with my MacPro and I was wondering if anyone has had a similar freeze and found a cure. Some background: I have my screen saver turned off. I have Energy Star set to ...
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Lion hangs on boot with empty progress bar and then switches off
Today as I was working on my MacBook Pro, it became incredibly slow and almost impossible to work with. I spent five minutes trying to restart it from the system menu, and eventually I did.
It took ...
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iMac shows frozen at bootup, but computer running normally in background
I'm on an Intel iMac running Lion.
I'm having major issues with my iMac. The iMac froze whilst using Chrome, and I was forced to reset it.
After the reset the screen seemed to freeze on the apple ...
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MacBook Pro constantly freezing/pausing for fractions of a second
I've got a 2008 MacBook Pro (Late 2008/Unibody, MB471LL/A, MacBookPro5,1, A1286) with 6GB of memory and a 160GB OCZ Vertex 2 SSD running 10.6.7 (1OJ869). Around a month ago I noticed the machine is ...
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MacOS & finder hang to beach ball after a couple of hard resets, won't go away
I had to do a couple of hard resets (holding power button until it shuts off) because MacOS became unresponsive.
Now it's happenning every time, when opening a pdf with preview, or apps that used to ...
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Diagnose periodic slowdowns/freezes
When I am watching a YouTube video, the video will pause and freeze for about one second, every 10 seconds on the dot. I've timed it. I have also tried watching activity monitor but it doesn't show ...
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snow leopard(10.6.5)freezes on startup with bootcamp and windows7
Help! I've installed boot camp and Windows 7 on my black Macbook Santa Rosa (2.4Ghz, 4GB RAM) and have a serious problem where I can no longer boot into OSX.
OSX freezes with the apple logo and timer, ...
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What does it mean when a %CPU exceeds (# of cores) x 100%?
Several responses to a question I asked earlier suggested I try Opera kiosk mode, so I decided to download it and give it a try. Once the download had completed and the disk image was being verified, ...
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Why does Safari always hang?
I use Safari as my browser, but I've found that it frequently hangs for 20, 30 seconds (sometimes longer), often times when I wake it up from sleep and/or when I open a new tab.
Though I'm not sure ...
