Nora, Been watching the thread on this but was out and couldn't respond. Yes you may have a problem with Firefox, you may have a hardware problem developing but your symptoms I experience quite often on the one machine that is the work horse.
To cure the problem it is like Lee says, it's not repair permissions it is rebuilding the DIRECTORY. You need to BOOT from your DiskWarrior disk and then do a rebuilding of the directory and you will be simply amazed (unless one of the other problems is the culprit) but you have to boot from the disk. This can take a good while but it will get there. IF you have an external drive attached unmount and turn it off before you try to boot from the DiskWarrior DVD. If not mine will never boot for it sees other systems out there and I guess gets confused. Once it has booted to the disk then you can turn the external drives on and rebuild the directories on each of the drives after you have completed your Mac. It's like a new machine, whisk fast and none of the many problems I had been experiencing. I also only use Safari, I figure Apple will try to keep it close to being updated as changes in the operating system are updated. John On Jul 20, 2011, at 12:09 PM, Nora Probasco wrote: > I have an odd situation with my Mac. In the past couple of days it has been > running VERY slow. I know that usually means that I need to fix permissions. > So when I ran Disk Utility, it said it would take 1 day and 6 hours to do it. > I left it on over night and part of an afternoon and it didn't seem to do > much. So I closed out of that and ran Diskwarrior having it check files as > well as fix permissions. I left it on over night and the next afternoon it > seemed to be stuck about 4/5ths through. I closed out and decided to run it > again last night. It did the same thing. Otherwise I can do what I want on > the computer. What concerns me is that I am afraid this may be a virus. Never > having had one I just don't know. I had another strange incident where > someone from China hacked into my gmail account and sent many spam email from > my account. Gmail froze the account, made me change my password and stopped > emails from being sent from that account for 24 hrs. I am wondering if I may > have also gotten some virus or something from that as it happened around the > same time. I have Virus Barrier which I could activate again, however, I want > to make sure that is what it may be. > > Nora > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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