Well, if you have no solution, I'll take your sympathy. Regards,
Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design On Sep 12, 2012, at 9:16 PM, Terry Judd <terry.j...@unimelb.edu.au> wrote: > > On 13/09/2012, at 02:02 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > >> Hi List: >> >> Apologies for posting something other than a EULA opinion, but I'm wondering >> if someone might have some experience with an OS X system that is throwing >> random beachballs all over the place (10.6.8). Scroll a list of files in >> the Finder = beachball; launch an application = beachball; create a new >> email message = beachball. I've used Disk Utility to repair the disk and >> permissions (nothing major appeared to be found). I've run a test on RAM >> using MemTest, with apparently no problems found. I've been watching >> Activity Monitor to see if there's anything sucking up processor use -- >> nothing appears to be out of the ordinary (that I know of). I'm now trying >> an app called Onyx to see if it will find anything worth addressing. >> >> Short of reinstalling the system (days worth of labor), I'm at a loss for >> what else to try. The one thing I found online is that the Spotlight >> indexing process can sometimes go crazy and intermittently bog down the >> processor -- Onyx supposedly allows you to disable this but I'm not certain >> this is the problem (not a regular culprit in Activity Monitor). >> >> Not sure if this means anything but apparently I can't reset PRAM on the >> system (Intel Mac Mini). I've tried several times with multiple keyboards, >> without success. I believe with Lion and above maybe this is supposed to be >> unnecessary, but it's supposed to work with Snow Leopard and earlier, yes? >> >> Anybody have any ideas for something else to look for? I know some of you >> do more low level tinkering than I. Restarts help for a while, but I can >> only restart the system so many times... >> > > Sounds bad. In my experience Disk Utility seems incapable of recognising, let > alone diagnosing or fixing, lots of major system level problems. I had 5 hard > disks, a logic board and a replacement battery fail within 12 months on my > MacBook Pro and not once did it tell me that anything was wrong (kernel > panic, what kernel panic). > > There are probably better diagnostic tools out there but I'm not really in a > position to recommend any of them (anyone?). I'd be leaning towards a > reinstall but let's face it there's no guarantee that that will fix your > problem. > > Sorry, that didn't really help at all did it? > > Good luck! > > Terry... > >> Thanks for any suggestions. >> >> Best Regards, >> >> Scott Rossi >> Creative Director >> Tactile Media, UX Design >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> > > Dr Terry Judd > Senior Lecturer in Medical Education > Medical Eduction Unit > Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences > The University of Melbourne > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
