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Everything freezing suddenly. beachball. random. for no reason at all
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<blockquote data-quote="weintrw" data-source="post: 1332761" data-attributes="member: 221357"><p>Sounds like the problem is solved but thought I would add a comment.</p><p></p><p>My grown daughter uses her pre Intel G5 daily for her home business. She is fabulous on the software but doesn't know the computer. She was told her hard drive was going. I got her a new iMac 27" i7 3.4 gH 8 GB. and brought it to her home for Thanksgiving. Her G5 would barely respond. Mostly Beachball. I setup the new iMac and got ready for Migration Assistant. BUT after a day on the phone with Apple. I could not get control of the G5 Finder to get control of her machine. Applecare was certain the HD was dead. We drove an hour to the nearest Apple store and after a couple of hours they declared the HD dead but found a way to "target it' and started Migration Assistant. The next day we picked the computers up. The 'new' user was there! But now on the brand new big machine I got the beachball, slow response, but has some response at maybe 3 second delay.</p><p></p><p>Now for the statement. How could this be. Well I stumbled on it. My daughter had over 22,000 (twenty two thousand) files on the desktop!! On her G5 it looked like 50 on the screen, but somehow all everything for 6 years was saved to the desktop. It was not easy, but slowly doable to move the files to a few folders and the speed of the machine returned to normal. I had to leave her home after the weekend and was having trouble moving the files on the old G5, but she now has an old machine she can use for watching DVDs or something.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="weintrw, post: 1332761, member: 221357"] Sounds like the problem is solved but thought I would add a comment. My grown daughter uses her pre Intel G5 daily for her home business. She is fabulous on the software but doesn't know the computer. She was told her hard drive was going. I got her a new iMac 27" i7 3.4 gH 8 GB. and brought it to her home for Thanksgiving. Her G5 would barely respond. Mostly Beachball. I setup the new iMac and got ready for Migration Assistant. BUT after a day on the phone with Apple. I could not get control of the G5 Finder to get control of her machine. Applecare was certain the HD was dead. We drove an hour to the nearest Apple store and after a couple of hours they declared the HD dead but found a way to "target it' and started Migration Assistant. The next day we picked the computers up. The 'new' user was there! But now on the brand new big machine I got the beachball, slow response, but has some response at maybe 3 second delay. Now for the statement. How could this be. Well I stumbled on it. My daughter had over 22,000 (twenty two thousand) files on the desktop!! On her G5 it looked like 50 on the screen, but somehow all everything for 6 years was saved to the desktop. It was not easy, but slowly doable to move the files to a few folders and the speed of the machine returned to normal. I had to leave her home after the weekend and was having trouble moving the files on the old G5, but she now has an old machine she can use for watching DVDs or something. [/QUOTE]
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