Great news Nora, I can't stress this enough it has worked wonders for my machines. They get so flaky, have enough spinning balls to throw a beach party and after a directory rebuild they are like a new machine, it's unbelievable. There are always many errors found, and I have a TimeMachine backup, a SuperDuper backup and a 3tb backup drive where I move the many movies. All three need to be rebuilt as there are always bad directories in each.
John On Jul 20, 2011, at 9:39 PM, Nora Probasco wrote: > John, > > I rebuilt the directory as you suggested. I also turned off a couple of the > extensions in Firefox and everything is running really well now. I think that > may have done the trick. Will see how it does over the next few days. > > Nora > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 4:31 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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