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Snow Leopard Ruined My MacBook
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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1384236"><p>Another possibility (just a possibility):</p><p></p><p>Sometimes doing major operations like system updates, I've noticed, exacerbates little drive problems into big ones. A bad sector that was not a big deal is now a dying hard drive because the OS forced the drive to overwrite the bad sector ... that sort of thing.</p><p></p><p>His description of the problems since then sound a lot like a dying HD to me, so I'm not sure that going back to Leopard even if he could would fix things.</p><p></p><p>This also (no offence to the OP) doesn't sound like a user who did routine maintenance or backups, or he would have rolled back to Leopard a long time ago. I think this lends support to my theory.</p><p></p><p>In short, I'm skeptical that it was just Snow Leopard. Yeah, the outdated software (to the OP: it's really important to keep mission-critical software up-to-date as you've discovered) may be the culprit at least for Cubase, but I'm not so sure there's no mechanical issues at the root of this.</p><p></p><p>I'd suggest a fresh hard drive (the old one is, by the OP's own statement, at least five years old) and reinstall of OS, apps and data, I would bet things will be mostly humming after that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1384236"] Another possibility (just a possibility): Sometimes doing major operations like system updates, I've noticed, exacerbates little drive problems into big ones. A bad sector that was not a big deal is now a dying hard drive because the OS forced the drive to overwrite the bad sector ... that sort of thing. His description of the problems since then sound a lot like a dying HD to me, so I'm not sure that going back to Leopard even if he could would fix things. This also (no offence to the OP) doesn't sound like a user who did routine maintenance or backups, or he would have rolled back to Leopard a long time ago. I think this lends support to my theory. In short, I'm skeptical that it was just Snow Leopard. Yeah, the outdated software (to the OP: it's really important to keep mission-critical software up-to-date as you've discovered) may be the culprit at least for Cubase, but I'm not so sure there's no mechanical issues at the root of this. I'd suggest a fresh hard drive (the old one is, by the OP's own statement, at least five years old) and reinstall of OS, apps and data, I would bet things will be mostly humming after that. [/QUOTE]
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