do a verify with disk utility, you may have underlaying problems
which may require reformatting the harddisk, corrupted spots on the
hd ........trying to open a file which is corrupted can take
time........
James
On 05/05/2010, at 18:43, mince and pud wrote:
Thanks Rob and Ray
No, my disc is a little over half full
Did the PRAM (after a couple of unexpected safe boots - you meant
command OPTION p r , Ray!!) and apart from the loss of my desktop
picture all is working so far. Except the large photoshop file I
was working on, and which I carefully saved before the pram
restart, has lost its end of file and is apparently irrecoverable.
Grrr
On 05/05/2010, at 11:04 AM, Rob Phillips wrote:
One possibility is that your system disk has less than 10% free
space.
On 5/05/10 5:26 PM, mince and pud wrote:
wah - would really appreciate help on this one; much work to do!
It's not so much a complete freeze as a gradual grind-to-a-halt.
Happened a few times a week or so back and always when my maxtor
external drive was doing something so that's now turned off
except at backup time and all was well until just now...
I've been having trouble updating a clone with superduper, taking
6 hours and counting to only update 4gb of files. Spotlight was
trying to index the disk image so told it not to. SD still slow.
Went into spotlight prefs and got a beach ball, tried to force
quit (it said not responding) got a box saying it quit while
unresponsive. It seems to be gone but its light is still on. An
application doing this - not always system prefs - has been
common to all the previous occurrences - and doing that terminal
thing to find its PID and killing it doesn't work as it's not in
the list. Can't try that this time as the finder is also not
responding (offers to relaunch but doesn't). Some apps unaffected
- mail fine, safari has always been immune. Pressing the power
key has done the trick before but I did that 5 mins ago and here
I am again.
Help appreciated!
kind regards
alastair
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