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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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MBP with Mountain Lion 10.8.3 loses connection to system SSD at random times and freezes
So, out of nowhere my 2009 MacBook (2,66 GHz Core 2 Duo, 8 GByte aftermarket ram) started freezing after 200+ days of uptime (sleep time included of course). I had installed a Crucial CT256M4SSD2 ...
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Any way to use ssh to recover a Mac from spinning beach ball of death
On Linux, I can get to a ssh or Ctrl-Alt-F1 console and type in a command to restart the window manager.
Is there any equivalent for Mac Mountain Lion?
I tried ssh'ing to a frozen Mac, and I could ...
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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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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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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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How do I know which process is causing my computer to hang?
My computer is a 15" Macbook Pro with Retina display, and I'm on OS X version 10.8.2. I have had this my computer for several months.
In the past few days, the computer has been completely ...
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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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Keyboard and Mouse freeze after deep sleep (Mountain Lion)
I got a mid 2011 MacBook Air 13.6" and its keyboard and mouse freezes very often after I leave it in sleep mode for some time and it wakes up. Only the power key and the lid detector are still ...
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Mountain Lion System Freeze - Poor Memory Handling?
Useful details: Core2Duo mid 2010 Macbook Air, 128Gb SSD, 2Gb RAM.
Since I upgraded to Mountain Lion I've had this occur a few times. I'll be running my system and it'll completely freeze, no ...
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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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Can't get past the login screen even with a correct password
I recently upgraded a 2010 MacBook Pro to Mountain Lion, and it's worked fine for the most part. Today, however, upon waking up from sleep, the laptop won't go past the login screen. I enter the ...
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How to stop MacBook Pro (Retina) from freezing/locking at the login/authentication dialogue, after wake?
Steps to reproduce:
Be doing anything
Close the lid of the computer
Wait around for a while
Open the lid of the computer
Login prompt for last logged in user appears, battery and time MAY update, ...
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How to solve stuttering after upgrade to Mountain Lion?
After upgrading to Mountain Lion, audio playback in iTunes stutters, as well as video playback and other minor system hangs.
How can I solve this without a downgrade?
Is there confirmation of it ...
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Mountain Lion sometimes hangs when mouse enters Dock – pointer is movable, but the MacBook Air seems otherwise frozen
I have a mid-2011 13" MacBook Air (MacBookAir4,2 with Intel HD Graphics 3000).
Since installing Mountain Lion I sometimes encounter a problem when I move the mouse cursor over the dock to click ...
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MacBook Pro with Mountain Lion freezes frequently (full screen Flash in Chrome, Messages, HTC on USB)
Problems following an upgrade to Mountain Lion on a 13-inch, Early 2011 MacBook Pro (MacBookPro8,1 with Intel HD Graphics 3000).
With Google Chrome, I was watching YouTube video fullscreen – Flash ...
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With Firefox Aurora, Mountain Lion hung - but the mouse still worked
I've just had my first Mountain Lion lockup. The screen was entirely frozen in place (I have seconds displayed on my clock in iStat Menu and even that wasn't moving) BUT the mouse still worked. I ...
