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- algarve in sunny southern Portugal,near the sea
- Your Mac's Specs
- intel 17'', 2Ghz I-Mac replaced under warranty by an alu 20'' iMac
hi everyone !
my computing knowledge is VERY basic & i only get anywhere through stubbornness, endless nagging of others in forums & googling stuff up…
my ''set-up'' : 2 year old alu Intel iMac - 2.66Ghz C2Duo, 4GB of RAM, Snow Leopard/all updates, it's on 24/7 & i didn't have my ADSL modem's firewall on but have corrected this recently…ooops !
on the 1st USB port of the iMac, through a self powered Logitech USB hub, are two 1TB + two 2TB W.Digital My Book USB drives : 1TB for Time Machine + 1TB video + 2TB iTunes + 2TB iTunes back up…
on the 2nd USB port i have an HP all in one C6180 printer
on the 3rd USB port & another powered Logitech hub : my iPhone 3GS + a Cambridge Audio DacMagic
EVERYTHING is plugged to an APC ups unit with enough power & that works flawlessly. finally i have a mini-port to HDMI cable feeding my 42'' plasma
i run a full Onix clean up routine twice a month but, something has crept up even before i got the firewall on :
symptom 1 - i'm in safari, 3, 4, 5 or + pages opened & suddenly everything but the mouse's cursor freezes. sometimes when over the dock to open another app, icons magnified & all….can't ''click back'' to Finder, dialog box for Force Quit doesn't open, nothing ! ½ minute/1 minute later it goes back to normal without me doing anything..
symptom 2 - i click to open Dictionary , it starts going through the motions yet it's window only opens MANY seconds later, AFTER the four USB drives start to spin !?…
symptom 3 - i open Dashboard, it comes up quickly but w/ blank widgets - they display info only MANY seconds later…
symptom 4 - every so often the ''beach ball of death'' comes up, regardless of app & what i'm doing in it, usually after 15 to 25 seconds all goes back to normal !!…
symptom 5 - i open iPhoto, open an event & when scrolling through, i see pics from other events which then change into the correct ones as i scroll
symptom 6 - in any app, when i click command+s to save something, the word ''File'' lights up in blue in the bar above & it takes quite a while for the save dialog box to open…
to add insult to injury, all this happens erratically which despite being apparently minor inconveniences, is driving me nuts !!...
softwares i have & how often i use them:
Firefox, Max, EasyWMA, RadioShift, Xilisoft DVD Copy, LogMeIn ( iPhone + other computers.. ), RealPlayer, RadioShift - little use
PhoneView, RealPlayer Downloader, AppZapper, Vuze, SpeedDownload, Transmission - sometimes
VLC, QuickTime Player 7 ( ex Pro ?.. ), Sutffit Expander , UnRarX, Home Design Studio Pro - regularly
DragThing - always on
then i have Perian, Flip4Mac, PowerChute ( APC ups unit's app… ) & SMC Fan Control - all are ALWAYS updated.
the iMac's drive is a 320GB w/ 255.3GB left in it, i've tried to eject all USB drives & even disconnected them to no avail, i have run Disk Utility on all drives, verified disks, repaired permissions & all that comes up is this from the iMac's own :
''….The volume iMac HD appears to be OK.
Repairing permissions for “iMac HD”
Permissions differ on "usr/share/derby", should be drwxr-xr-x , they are lrwxr-xr-x .
Repaired "usr/share/derby".
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAgent" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Permissions repair complete…''
can anyone tell me what's causing these ''stutterings'' ? point me in a general direction of plausible causes ? sorry for this post's length but i felt the more info i could provide, the easier it would be to assess what's up. any suggestions ? thank you VERY much
my computing knowledge is VERY basic & i only get anywhere through stubbornness, endless nagging of others in forums & googling stuff up…
my ''set-up'' : 2 year old alu Intel iMac - 2.66Ghz C2Duo, 4GB of RAM, Snow Leopard/all updates, it's on 24/7 & i didn't have my ADSL modem's firewall on but have corrected this recently…ooops !
on the 1st USB port of the iMac, through a self powered Logitech USB hub, are two 1TB + two 2TB W.Digital My Book USB drives : 1TB for Time Machine + 1TB video + 2TB iTunes + 2TB iTunes back up…
on the 2nd USB port i have an HP all in one C6180 printer
on the 3rd USB port & another powered Logitech hub : my iPhone 3GS + a Cambridge Audio DacMagic
EVERYTHING is plugged to an APC ups unit with enough power & that works flawlessly. finally i have a mini-port to HDMI cable feeding my 42'' plasma
i run a full Onix clean up routine twice a month but, something has crept up even before i got the firewall on :
symptom 1 - i'm in safari, 3, 4, 5 or + pages opened & suddenly everything but the mouse's cursor freezes. sometimes when over the dock to open another app, icons magnified & all….can't ''click back'' to Finder, dialog box for Force Quit doesn't open, nothing ! ½ minute/1 minute later it goes back to normal without me doing anything..
symptom 2 - i click to open Dictionary , it starts going through the motions yet it's window only opens MANY seconds later, AFTER the four USB drives start to spin !?…
symptom 3 - i open Dashboard, it comes up quickly but w/ blank widgets - they display info only MANY seconds later…
symptom 4 - every so often the ''beach ball of death'' comes up, regardless of app & what i'm doing in it, usually after 15 to 25 seconds all goes back to normal !!…
symptom 5 - i open iPhoto, open an event & when scrolling through, i see pics from other events which then change into the correct ones as i scroll
symptom 6 - in any app, when i click command+s to save something, the word ''File'' lights up in blue in the bar above & it takes quite a while for the save dialog box to open…
to add insult to injury, all this happens erratically which despite being apparently minor inconveniences, is driving me nuts !!...
softwares i have & how often i use them:
Firefox, Max, EasyWMA, RadioShift, Xilisoft DVD Copy, LogMeIn ( iPhone + other computers.. ), RealPlayer, RadioShift - little use
PhoneView, RealPlayer Downloader, AppZapper, Vuze, SpeedDownload, Transmission - sometimes
VLC, QuickTime Player 7 ( ex Pro ?.. ), Sutffit Expander , UnRarX, Home Design Studio Pro - regularly
DragThing - always on
then i have Perian, Flip4Mac, PowerChute ( APC ups unit's app… ) & SMC Fan Control - all are ALWAYS updated.
the iMac's drive is a 320GB w/ 255.3GB left in it, i've tried to eject all USB drives & even disconnected them to no avail, i have run Disk Utility on all drives, verified disks, repaired permissions & all that comes up is this from the iMac's own :
''….The volume iMac HD appears to be OK.
Repairing permissions for “iMac HD”
Permissions differ on "usr/share/derby", should be drwxr-xr-x , they are lrwxr-xr-x .
Repaired "usr/share/derby".
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAgent" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Permissions repair complete…''
can anyone tell me what's causing these ''stutterings'' ? point me in a general direction of plausible causes ? sorry for this post's length but i felt the more info i could provide, the easier it would be to assess what's up. any suggestions ? thank you VERY much