The problem when your computer/device as a whole OR an individual application becomes unresponsive, "hanging" as it were, in mid air.
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Can't get Safenote to open; freezes on loading screen
I've had the Safenote app for quite a while now and have a lot of useful notes in there. But now it won't open—it's frozen on the loading screen. Is there any way of getting it working again?
I'm ...
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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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Login screen freezes after the Lion 10.7.1 update
After updating to 10.7.1 (the first Lion update) & restarting the system, it's not logging me in. As I give my password and press return it stays on the same login screen. I could move the mouse ...
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Built-In Trackpad and Keyboard Unresponsive after Sleep or Restart
I have a MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2008) that's currently running 10.7.3. I've been finding that it will intermittently freeze and then I have to shut down and restart the computer, but sometimes ...
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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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Why safari hangs right after installation on Windows XP?
I've just installed Safari on Windows XP SP3 and after succesful installation it starts and just hangs up. I also see process Webkit2Webprocess.exe which uses 100% of one core and nothing else ...
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Troublesome kext or driver causing system to hang
I have a late 2012 27" iMac with a relatively fresh install of OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2). I have been experiencing a pretty severe problem that I am convinced is software related, but I could use ...
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Macbook Pro 2007 Crashes
I have a macbook pro 2007 . 4gb of ram 320gb. i bought this macbook off eBay over the summer. it came with leopard , 2 months later then i upgrade to snow leopard, then to mountain lion. i currently ...
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What is writing to Disk causing eventual Beach-ball-of-death
What is running my machine down? This is iotop output...I still can't tell what is driving my system to a halt. Command+i on the SSD shows my "used space" slowly changing. It does this for about an ...
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iMessage freeze and crash
I am having this problem where I open up iMessage on my iPod Touch 4th Gen iOS 6.0.1 and it freezes after 3 seconds. There is a specific message that is causing this. This app opens up at this ...
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Dashboard or iCal hang with 100% CPU usage
Running on Mac OS X 10.7.4, issues list this seem to be riddled in Google searches but nothing like my issue, which persists even when I take all the steps. My story...
Brought up Dashboard today ...
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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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login screen hangs when I try to switch users without disconnecting VNC client
I'm fast-user switched to the login screen. However, when I start to type my user name and password the keyboard input freezes before I am finished and I get the spinning beach ball and can't log in. ...
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Macbook Pro hangs when booting into Boot Camp Windows 7
I have a 2011 Macbook Pro 15" 10.7.4 with Windows 7 installed in Boot Camp. A few days ago, I tried to boot into Windows 7 and it just froze after I selected the Boot Camp volume on the Select Drive ...
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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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ps on remote Mac doesn't work
I have a Mac Mini (latest model I believe) running OS X 10.7 at a remote location that I can only access via SSH.
The problem is that the ps command* does not work. When I run it in any form, from ...
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OSX freezes upon USB connect
On a new (end 2012) iMac 21" with OSX ML as delivered I performed a migration from a backup drive that contained a bootable clone of the old machine, OSX 10.6.x, Users, Application, Libraries, etc, ...
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Console Mode from Desktop
With most linux distros you can hit control + alt + F1 or the like, and get a Console. This is really useful when your X11 / display manager freezes, because you can restart that process / service in ...
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How do I unfreeze my iPod Nano 4th Gen?
tl;dr -- My iPod hangs on the boot screen (black background, silver apple logo). When I try to restore it (on both my Virtual Windows XP and on a Mac laptop), it'll restore fine, but when it reboots ...
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Retina Macbook pro freezes when Notification centre is triggered
Okay, so this is a really weird error. Every so often when I trigger the notification centre using the two finger swipe, the machine will freeze. The notification centre can't be dismissed and any ...
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iMac hanging on startup
I've got a 2011, 21.5" iMac with a 1TB hard drive (likely Seagate, although I don't think I can check right now). After it froze, I did a cold restart by holding down the power button for a few ...
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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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iMessage Conversation Freeze
I was messaging a friend then suddenly it gave me an error saying the message was not sent and I had to re-try sending the message. Since then, my iMessage freezes if I go into that same message. I ...
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Mountain Lion freezes for 20 seconds after waking up from suspend to disk
Is there any way to get a progress bar or whatever when waking up from suspend to disk?
I remember seeing other Macbooks with older versions of OS X which showed a nice little progress bar after ...
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iMac 2011 spinning beach ball after login
the following is the HW profile of my iMac:
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac12,1
Processor Name: Intel Core i5
Processor Speed: 2.5 GHz
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Ipod Classic 120 GB frozen when syncing with a new PC.
I am trying to sync my Ipod Classic with my new PC, and my iTunes account is the same username, login, etc. My iPod has frozen in the "Connected- Eject before disconnecting" screen. It isn't syncing, ...
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MBAir 13" 2011 blinks after open lid
I have a 2011 MBA (13", 10.7.2, 256 GB). Very often, when I open the lid (and the MacBook is sleeping) the system freezes for 2-3 seconds, then the display blinks; after that, the system waits 1-2 ...
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Why is my login screensaver freezing, instead of the display going to sleep?
I have an iMac running Mac OS 10.6.8 with fast user switching enabled, Vine VNC server running on one user account, and the login screen displayed. The screensaver on the iMac activates but then ...
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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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27" 2009 iMac screen occasionally freezes (mouse still moves) after upgrading RAM and SSD
I have a 2009 iMac that has been working fine (but slowly) until now. I decided to upgrade the hard drive to a 500 GB Intel SSD (MZ-7TD500BW) and put in 16 GB of RAM (PNY Optima PC3-8500). I've ...
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screen with “cloud” spots and freezes
I have a macbook pro that is getting some error, I can work with him for a while but then e freezes and some "cloud-like" spots appear on the screen.
What can be its problem?
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iPod touch not responding
My iPod touch 1st generation with iOS 3 has just spontaneously stopped responding. It's on the home screen, but won't react to touch, the home button or the power button. Holding down the power button ...
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MBP: MacOS 10.6 hangs up after login
I've got a MacBook pro with snow leopard installed. All worked fine, just now I had to install OpenAfs, which requires a reboot. When I tried to reboot, the pc stopped shutting down: All I could see ...
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Macbook Pro with 10.7.5 hanging when closing screen
I have some problems on my Macbook. Whenever I close the screen and I open it up again, the problem starts. Sometimes I am able to login, but once I am inside, the computer freezers. Other times I ...
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Xserver crashing, logs are incomplete as to why
We are currently running an OS X Server, and for the past month or two, it has been crashing around the same times. There is no rhyme or reason as to why, and the logs do not tell a full picture as to ...
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What is causing Lion's Mail to freeze for upwards of 45 seconds after launch?
This just started happening today. I have no idea what is causing it. No useful system.log information. I tried rebuilding the envelope files to no avail.
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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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Macbook Pro 13 mouse freezes after wake up
I have a Macbook Pro 13" bought in December which means it is the latest available version.
(MacBookPro8,1 , 2,4 Ghz Intel Core i5, 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3, Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB)
I have problems ...
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Cannot install Adobe CS5 - install hangs at calculating time
I am not able to install any of the Adobe CS5 software. The installer hangs when calculating time.
Here's what I found in the installer log:
[ 0] Mon Oct 3 21:22:13 2011 INFO
::START ...
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iTunes: long hangs when dragging files into app via File Sharing
On my Mac (OS X 10.6.7) using iTunes (10.2.2 (12)), if I drag a bunch of files into
my app via iTunes' File Sharing, the first dozen to four dozen files transfer
quickly ... then, sporadically, about ...
