yes thank you Kay, actually these are the first places I looked, the usual suspects. Something deeper might be going on, including the fact that I was using a developer preview when I first installed Lion, and it never let me upgrade beyond .0
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Actually missed a big one off the list. > > Spotlight - which would show up as mdworker in Activity Monitor. If you've > added a 'new' HD, internal or external and haven't set Spotlight to ignore > it then Spotlight may take forever to process it and you will definitely > end up with the beachball. > > New in this case would mean something like moving your 1.75TB of backups to > a new 3TB drive. Spotlight will spend forever doing it's thing to the > 1.75TB already on the drive. > > I always add Backup/Archive HDs to Spotlight's Privacy list - but many > times I forget with upgrades and it isn't until I'm left with an > unresponsive system that I crack open AM and find the culprit. > > Also, what Sharing services have you set up. Is it possible someone is > accessing iTunes, iPhoto or large files - you turned it on and forgot to > turn it off? What about iCloud, are you snap happy and is iPhoto constantly > updating your last 1000 photos to iCloud? Again, AM should help you pin > point it. > > HTH > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb <http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar> _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode