Problems with OS X 10.8.3 ? Solutions ?

If you don't restore from a backup, probably yes.

Erasing the volume and then restoring everything the way it is now will probably have no effect. You can reinstall the OS without erasing if you like, but that probably won't have any effect either. Either you have to troubleshoot your configuration to find out what's wrong with it, or else wipe it out and start over with nothing but your documents -- no settings and no third-party software. Then you add things back gradually, testing at each step to see whether the problem has been restored.

It can be useful, but it's really a last resort, and doesn't tell you what the problem was. And it's a lot of work.

If I were you I'd read this: Mac OS X: How to troubleshoot a software issue and then, roughly in this order:

1. create a test user account and see if the problem is fixed

2. start up in safe mode and see if the problem is fixed

3. start up in recovery mode and repair your hard disc and permissions, restart, and see if the problem is fixed.

4. try the disabling fonts suggestion in the article (but I've never had to do that).

If all that fails, then I'd probably go ahead and start from scratch, erase the HD, install ML from scratch, and reinstall my documents, and reinstall my apps from fresh copies (not from backups). And minimize the third party add-ons.

How do I do the troubleshoot?

Linc has been unsuccessfully trying to walk you through the process.

Pardon me, but I have to say that the responses here to this user's problem are blaming everything but the update itself on the problems he's having with his computer.

I JUST BOUGHT a new MacMini not a week ago. There is NOTHING on the computer but what it came with. No performance issues at all. As soon as I upgraded to the 10.8.3 update, it slowed down and hesitates.

If I wanted a Mac to do that, I would have stuck with my 5 year old Mac Mini.

The question that should be asked and answered is how to revert back to the previous version, not any of this other smoke and mirrors BS.

I appreciate the knowledge and effort you are all trying to exert here, but the simple fix would be to simply chuck this update until they fix whatever is wrong with it.

themillertest wrote:

Pardon me, but I have to say that the responses here to this user's problem are blaming everything but the update itself on the problems he's having with his computer.

I JUST BOUGHT a new MacMini not a week ago. There is NOTHING on the computer but what it came with. No performance issues at all. As soon as I upgraded to the 10.8.3 update, it slowed down and hesitates.

If I wanted a Mac to do that, I would have stuck with my 5 year old Mac Mini.

The question that should be asked and answered is how to revert back to the previous version, not any of this other smoke and mirrors BS.

I appreciate the knowledge and effort you are all trying to exert here, but the simple fix would be to simply chuck this update until they fix whatever is wrong with it.

Unless you have a full recent Time Machine backup or a bootable clone, you cannot just 'simply chuck it'. The extreme majority of users have had no issue with the update. Those few that have need to look at what the problemwith their software or hardware is. I don't know what soke and mirors you are refering to, but I have 5 Macs al trouble free with improved performance since applying the 10.8.3 Combo update. So please don't give such radical and terribly uninformed suggestions to people.

Good Luck

Pete

So then you're saying I should return my brand new MacMini because there is something wrong with it?

And of course I wouldn't suggest "just chucking it" -- that was pejorative... but I'm not sure how you can gauge the "extreme majority" of users don't have a problem with it when you see all the threads popping up here and elsewhere about it.

Cheers

themillertest wrote:

And of course I wouldn't suggest "just chucking it" -- that was pejorative... but I'm not sure how you can gauge the "extreme majority" of users don't have a problem with it when you see all the threads popping up here and elsewhere about it.

Cheers

You will rarely see one of the many many millions of users with no problems in a troubleshooting site.😉

Pete

themillertest wrote:

Pardon me, but I have to say that the responses here to this user's problem are blaming everything but the update itself on the problems he's having with his computer.

I JUST BOUGHT a new MacMini not a week ago. There is NOTHING on the computer but what it came with. No performance issues at all. As soon as I upgraded to the 10.8.3 update, it slowed down and hesitates.

I also have a very new Mac Mini (late 2012 version). It runs 10.8.3 like a dream.

If there was something wrong with the update, mine wouldn't work flawlessly, but it does. The problem is almost always third-party crapware.

To "chuck it," you would need to restore from a backup to a point prior to installing the update.

I am seeing the same problem with 10.8.3.

I have a 27" iMac, 3.4ghz i7, 3tb Fusion Drive, 16GB ram.

The issue is as reported slow performance and a number of beach balls, I can see it's not a processor issue, I run tray icons to monitor this and (Terminal > Top) shows 99% idle.

What I have found using BlackMagic drive speed test is that sometimes I'm seeing <5MB read/write, whereas normally it circa 300MB r/w.

Iv'e reset PRAM to no effect.

It's definitely an intermittent disk performance problem, e.g. opening a VM in Fusion from a frozen state used to be sub 1second and now the load bar crawls across.

I think I'll give it a couple more days to see if an fix is forthcoming, otherwise I'll flatten the machine restore from backup and go to 10.8.2

P.