Re: Cannot get gimp app running

2014-11-02 Thread Eric A. Borisch
On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Gregory Seidman gsslist+macpo...@anthropohedron.net wrote: This is a known, upstream bug: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/45309 --Greg On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 06:45:55PM -0500, Eric A. Borisch wrote: Are you able to open something that uses a plugin, like

The crazy thing I did to fix Yosemite performance

2014-11-02 Thread Jeff Singleton
Hi, So after much frustration, much stress, and of course, I broke my Mac in the process. Backed up my user folder from single-user mode (since my mac would not boot all the way). Then I wiped and reinstalled Mavericks, upgraded to Yosemite, and then restored my user folder. Back story: In

Re: The crazy thing I did to fix Yosemite performance

2014-11-02 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Sunday November 02 2014 12:06:35 Jeff Singleton wrote: Back story: In an attempt to figure out why the services mds and mdworker were running away with my CPU. Nothing I did resolved this, including putting every single folder except /Applications in the exception list for Spotlight.

Re: The crazy thing I did to fix Yosemite performance

2014-11-02 Thread William H. Magill
On Nov 2, 2014, at 1:57 PM, René J.V. Bertin rjvber...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday November 02 2014 12:06:35 Jeff Singleton wrote: Back story: In an attempt to figure out why the services mds and mdworker were running away with my CPU. Nothing I did resolved this, including putting every

Re: The crazy thing I did to fix Yosemite performance

2014-11-02 Thread Jeff Singleton
On 11/2/14 12:57 PM, René J.V. Bertin wrote: On Sunday November 02 2014 12:06:35 Jeff Singleton wrote: Back story: In an attempt to figure out why the services mds and mdworker were running away with my CPU. Nothing I did resolved this, including putting every single folder except

Re: The crazy thing I did to fix Yosemite performance

2014-11-02 Thread Michael Crawford
Your user folder from your original installation will include a lot of settings, preferences and the like from applications that were part of your older OS install. Potentially that might not be what you want, I don't really know. Recent versions of OS X hide your ~/Library folder in the Finder,