Hi Kris, Thanks for your reply. I just ran Disk Utility and got the report that everything is fine on my backup disk.
Having said that, I think you may be right about Time Capsule being responsible for the serious system slowdowns that I was experiencing. I also use MobileMe and MyDisk.se so that could explain some of it as well, but the odd thing was that only in the very beginning, when I started experiencing the system performance hit problem, was there any correlation between system slowdown and Time Capsule or MobileMe activity. There was no visible activity from either Time Capsule, MobileMe or anything in the Activity Monitor that revealed the slowdown at the end. I had even run Onyx at a point, to make sure that the daily, weekly and monthly chore scripts had been run recently, flushed the app and browser caches, etc. without any sign of improvement. Cheers, Brian On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Kris Tilford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 6, 2008, at 3:52 AM, Brian Durant wrote: > > > It seems to me at this point, since the memory tests checked out, to > > ask the following two questions: > > > > 1) What caused the original, massive performance hits that my system > > gradually started taking over a period of a week or so, and > > > > 2) Why my restored Time Machine/Capsule system won't boot. > > > > I think the answer to number two is that I had set the backup not to > > backup my applications folder, thus saving space. This probably also > > excluded the Finder. However, this doesn't explain why a reinstall > > of system 10.5.5 using "archive and install" stops with the message > > that it could not "prepare" the disk. > > > > Any ideas? > > I think it's Time Machine and specifically the Time Capsule. I think > Time Capsule has "problems" and the "massive performance hits that my > system gradually started taking over a period of a week or so" were > probably related to a failing Time Capsule/Time Machine? I'm thinking > your restored Time Machine/Capsule system won't boot because of > problems with Time Capsule. > > Have you run Disk Utility on the Time Capsule HD yet? If you get an > error message saying it "needs to be reformatted" you're hosed, just > like I was. I "lost" over 700 GB of backup data. I've since created a > normal clone backup of about 500 GB of the 700, and I've "got my > fingers crossed" for the other 200 which reside on several laptops. I > would have taken my Time Capsule back to Apple for warranty work > except that I'm using the router, and it's going to be a giant hassle > to return it. I'm very disappointed with Time Capsule. Great idea, > terrible execution. For all those considering a Time Capsule, having a > separate router & backup HD has BIG advantages if you have hardware > warranty issues. > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
