While moving HD icon I placed it on top of or near the xcode icon on desktop. now xcode won't run. All hardware tested fine at apple and we reinstalled operating system. also HD icon removed from desk. Activity monitor %150 from xcode. Xcode removed and reinstalled twice. Girl at Genius bar stumped too.
Mac Air OsX 10.8.2
MacBook Air, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)
First of all, back up your system.
Try uninstalling any Affinegy products from your user account and restarting. Test Xcode.
I don't see much else in your user acount, but as an aside I'd also take a look at that Silex driver. Have you updated it for Mountain Lion? If not, do so. If you don't use it anymore, remove it.
After updating or uninstalling anything, restart the mac and test.
Kob khun krap Softwater, I'm embarrassed to say I don't have any thing to back up my hard drive (time machine probably would have save my butt already). But maybe I can use my imac or ipad to do it? Otherwise, I'll have to wait a few days to get a back up HD.
ไม่เป็นไรครับเป็นคนไทยรึเปล่าครับ You can't back up your Air with an iPad, but if your iMac has more free disk space than your entire MB Air, you could create a partition on its HDD and clone your MBA to it.
Sawa dee krap softwater, I'll order the HD back up sometime this week and let you know when I get it (it sounds like the best way to go).
With your help and a little "chok di" I think I can get my MB going again just in time for school.
Sorry I can't read Thai and only know a few phrases but I have many Thai friends who love teaching me.
Kob khun krap!
Sawa dee softwater, I finally recieved the backup HD and am patiently waiting for your next command.
Tim
Plug in the disk, turn on Time Machine in
 > System Preferences... Time Machine
and backup your system.
While you're in that System Prefs panel, what's that 'Total Access' at the bottom (in the 'Other' row)?
Do you or did you once have an internet service provider called 'Earthlink' and is that something you installed in your OS prior to 10.7?
If yes, get rid of it (AFTER the Time Machine backup is finished!) - It looks like a strong candidate for the problem. Follow the instructions here if you don't have uninstall instructions from the developer:
http://jamesce.com/2012/05/manually-removing-earthlink-totalaccess-2005-for-mac/
Did the back up and removed the Earthlink icon from Total access ( it was used prior to 10.7). I tried following
manual removal link and couldn't find any of the items to remove? Was removing the icon enough and what do I
do now?
Thanks
Tim
Did you restart the mac and test Xcode yet after doing that?
Sadly Xcode is still frozen. Should I try a clean sweep and reload?
Xcode only fails to run in your account, it runs ok from a differemt user account?
If so have you tried removing your xcode preference file? ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Xcode.plist
Thanks Frank,
Yes, it runs fine in the other account.
I can't open xcode peferences in the frozen account. I tried the command in Terminal but it says access denied.
What command did you try in the terminal?
To move the preference file do:
Make sure Xcode is not running.
In Finder select Go from the top menu, Hold down the option key and your home Library folder will be visible in the list of folders, select it. In the Finder window that opens select Preferences. Find the com.apple.Xcode.plist file and move it to the Desktop or Trash.
Restart Xcode.
thanks Frank, sorry I thought( ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Xcode.plist) was a terminal command.
I gave up and went to apple yesterday to try a "clean and reinstall" but one of the techs found an errant file
and now xcode finally seems to be running fine. The trashed items are below (~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Xcode.plist is in there). Would you mind letting me know if it's ok to trash all of these.
Java
com.apple.dt.Xcode.plist
Preferences
Autosave
com.apple.recentitems.plist
ByHost
com.apple.spaces.plist
com.apple.AddressBook.plist
com.apple.dock.plist
com.apple.ServicesMenu.Services.plist
com.apple.ubd.plist
com.apple.desktop.plist
com.apple.LaunchServices.plist
com.apple.quicklookconfig.plist
com.apple.spotlight.plist
com.apple.systemuiserver.plist
com.apple.CoreGraphics.plist
com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad.plist
com.apple.facetime.bag.plist
com.apple.iLifeAssetManagement.crash.plist
com.apple.universalaccess.plist
com.apple.iLifePhotoStream.importstatus.plist
com.apple.BezelServices.plist
com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.mouse.plist
com.apple.driver.AppleHIDMouse.plist
com.apple.SetupAssistant.plist
com.apple.CalendarAgent.plist
com.apple.iCal.plist
com.apple.appstore.plist
com.apple.loginwindow.plist
com.apple.storeagent.plist
UserEventAgent.plist
com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist
loginwindow.plist
SAS
com.apple.nsservicescache.plist
com.apple.AddressBookSourceSync
com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent
DocSetAccess
com.apple.dt.Xcode
com.apple.QuickLookDaemon
com.apple.dt.Xcode.savedState
Shared
Xcode
Thank all of you for your help and patience. You guys are great.
Tim
Assuming those all came out of your Library/Preference folder you should be OK )you might have to re-create some of your preferences however).
They really did a whole sale slaughter!
I'm sorry I wasn;t clearer about the the preference file com.apple.Xcode.plist, if I had you might have saved yourself all this 😉
glad it's working for you
regards
I'm confused.
There is no such thing as
com.apple.Xcode.plist
in my user prefs (or in the list above), and the instruction to remove
com.apple.dt.Xcode.plist
was given at the beginning of the thread, twice...
xcode won't run.
