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Screen Saver freezes black and unresponsive, Spinning Beachball of Death

Recently, I have not been able to wake my 'puter up from the black when it goes into screensaver mode. The screensaver is also just a black screen. When I go to system preferences and look at the screen saver controls I get the spinning beachball and have to force quit out of system preferences to get back to work. I am unable to address any changes through the preferences panel at all because of the spinning beachball. I've run DiskWarrior and it tells me there is an error with a iphotomosaic.plist file (don't know if thats the exact name) and I have tried removing it but this action is no help and the problem continues.

Any helpful suggestions greatly appreciated!

iMac G5, Mac OS X (10.5.6), It's a nice 'puter

Posted on Mar 10, 2009 4:22 AM

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Posted on Mar 10, 2009 4:37 AM

If DiskWarrior is reporting problems, you need to repair your hard drive, and you need to do so as soon as possible. Reboot from your Mac OS X install disk. When the installer appears, switch to Disk Utility through one of the menus, then choose your hard drive and click the Repair Drive button.
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Mar 10, 2009 4:37 AM in response to Kailua

If DiskWarrior is reporting problems, you need to repair your hard drive, and you need to do so as soon as possible. Reboot from your Mac OS X install disk. When the installer appears, switch to Disk Utility through one of the menus, then choose your hard drive and click the Repair Drive button.

Mar 10, 2009 1:42 PM in response to thomas_r.

I just did a repair permissions task from DiskWarrior and the screen saver issue appears to be resolved as I don't get the beachball spin in system preference/screensaver and it looks like the screensaver controls are working properly as seen by the test button.

As far as using Disk Utility from the Mac OS X install disk goes, I believe the DiskWarrior folks state in their readme file that their program should be used in place of the apple disk.

I wonder if there is any issues with using Diskwarrior instead of the Mac OS X disk. Can I use them interchangeably or not?

Mar 10, 2009 3:47 PM in response to Kailua

Last time I used DiskWarrior (back in the old pre-X days), it was a "one-hit wonder." It did one thing -- rebuild disk directories -- but did it really well. If that is still the case, I don't think that it is reasonable to say that you should use it *instead of* Apple's Disk Utility, which does many other things. Especially for routine maintenance... I wouldn't want to be rebuilding a disk directory all the time.

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