Hi Alastair, If Disk Utility is unable to help you. If you have a Disk Warrior Disc that is compatible with your computer, run that to check for any problems with your hard drive.
Cheers, Ronni On 06/05/2010, at 7:36 AM, James / Hans Kunz wrote: > 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 >>>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
