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.
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.
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.
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?
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.