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repairing disk permissions daily what is wrong with my macbook pro

repairing disk permissions daily what is wrong with my macbook pro

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Sep 2, 2013 3:01 AM

15 replies

Sep 2, 2013 3:39 AM in response to clintonfrombirmingham

been having so many problems with my mac lately - applications dont launch, freezes, won't start up, you name it and getting worse, started months ago but has been a daily occurance lately I have reformatted the drive, reinstalled all software and repairing the disk and permissions is the only thing that works - though not for long

Sep 2, 2013 4:54 AM in response to Community User

It may be - and your problems are indicative of this problem - that your hard drive is failing. If you've completed a 'clean' install, either your hard drive is failing or you've installed third-party apps that are causing your problems. To eliminate third-party applications that may be causing problems, please download and run EtreCheck and copy and paste the results in a reply.


Clinton

Sep 2, 2013 9:19 PM in response to Community User

Thanks Clinton - that is what I was afraid of so I have backed up to another hard drive and I ran that program the results are posted below


Hardware Information:

MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010)

MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro6,2

1 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 2 cores

4 GB RAM


Video Information:

NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M - VRAM: 512 MB

Intel HD Graphics - VRAM: 288 MB


System Software:

Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549) - Uptime: 0 days 0:8:24


Disk Information:

Hitachi HTS545050B9SA02 disk0 : (465.76 GB)

(null) (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 200 MB

Macintosh HD (disk0s2) /: 434 GB (16.5 GB free)

BOOTCAMP (disk0s3) /Volumes/BOOTCAMP: 31.44 GB (2.06 GB free)


MATSHITADVD-R
UJ-898


USB Information:

Western Digital Ext HDD 1021 1.82 TB

(null) (disk1s1) <not mounted>: 200 MB

Elements (disk1s2) /Volumes/Elements: 1.82 TB (944.25 GB free)


Western Digital
My Book 465.76 GB

(null) (disk2s1) <not mounted>: 200 MB

Time Machine Backups (disk2s2) /Volumes/Time Machine Backups: 465.44 GB (32.37 GB free)


EPSON EPSON Scanner


Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad


Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller


Apple Internal Memory Card Reader


Microsoft
Compact Optical Mouse 500


Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver


Apple Inc. Built-in iSight


FireWire Information:


Thunderbolt Information:


Kernel Extensions:


Problem System Launch Daemons:

[not loaded] org.samba.winbindd.plist


Problem System Launch Agents:

[failed] com.apple.Kerberos.renew.plist


Launch Daemons:

[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist

[loaded] com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist

[loaded] com.smithmicro.schedulerdaemon.plist


Launch Agents:

[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist

[loaded] com.adobe.CS5ServiceManager.plist


User Launch Agents:

[loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist

[loaded] com.adobe.ARM.930da3ce175de4e82bd3cdf1dd8571f74bd3b6a7236bc94bfc00f6e9.plist

[failed] com.apple.CSConfigDotMacCert-[redacted]@me.com-SharedServices.Agent.plist

[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist

[not loaded] com.smithmicro.cleaning.schedulermailer.plist


User Login Items:

iTunesHelper

EEventManager

FontAgent Activator

Aimersoft Helper Compact


3rd Party Preference Panes:

Flash Player

Flip4Mac WMV

FAPPreferences

Growl


Internet Plug-ins:

AdobeAAMDetect.plugin

AdobePDFViewer.plugin

Flash Player.plugin

FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin

Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.plugin

Google Earth Web Plug-in.plugin

iPhotoPhotocast.plugin

JavaAppletPlugin.plugin

NPRoblox.plugin

QuickTime Plugin.plugin

Silverlight.plugin

Unity Web Player.plugin


User Internet Plug-ins:


Bad Fonts:

None


Top Processes by CPU:

5% EtreCheck

3% syslogd

2% WindowServer

1% fontd

0% LaunchCFMApp

0% EPSON Scanner

0% ODSAgent


Top Processes by Memory:

102 MB
mds

53 MB WindowServer

53 MB Mail

37 MB Finder

20 MB coreservicesd

20 MB FontAgent Activator

20 MB EtreCheck

16 MB Dock

16 MB mdworker

12 MB Aimersoft Helper Compact


Virtual Memory Statistics

2.26 GB
Free RAM

531 MB
Active RAM

420 MB
Inactive RAM

702 MB
Wired RAM

284 MB
Page-ins

0 B Page-outs

Sep 2, 2013 10:21 PM in response to Community User

I don't see much that's unusual - do you use the Smith Micro apps regularly? If not, try uninstalling according to the developer's instructions. Same goes for the samba kext.


Other than that, I don't see anything that would be causing the problems that you describe. Try creating a new user account and see if you have the same problems.


Good luck,


Clinton

Feb 21, 2014 4:00 PM in response to Community User

I also wonder too, I spent more than a day erasing 35 times doing every kind of test and repair then Partitioning the HD and installing 10.6 registering and turning on Vile fault and stealth mood then Updating everthing shutting down booting safe moood everthing possible to have a clean in install no file completely like factory condition.


Then opening up DU and a lot of repairs need doing to permissions 5 times repeating repair ( howcome we can not have Loop enabled sp that it will never stop repairing until they are repaired ?) I then went to Verfy and there were not so many to repair great ! ,but when i went to repair they multiplied and seemed it never repairs but I can see all of them state ' This is this and should be this ' so it is already confirming that they need to be changed or repaired.

Feb 21, 2014 6:23 PM in response to BobRz

Well no but I got this MBP 2009 version in 2011 very cheap it had no Disks and Track pad was not working I installed 10.6 and Lion and ML and various times it was the memory not enough and then I called apple to verify what OSX it was shipped with they offered to sell a original replacement of 10.5 when partitioned it I installed it 10.5 ,10.6 then lion then the battery stated it needs service so I took out the battery and there was a lot of dust between the track pad and the battery and I cleaned it and the track pad was working fine but the battery was still dead then I called Apple and they said it is the cold so I warmed it up and it started to work fine then the track pad stopped so I decided to just try the Original 10.5 partition and install 10.6 retail and do all the Checks before installing Lion ,I even installed Teq tool delooqs and it stated you need to install updates but it failed then I just tried it with out surface scan and it stated ok I wonder if there is a conflict with the Original replacement disks and 10.6 Because this and another MBP 2009 is just the time when the 10.6 came out and Apple were confused because they sent me a Replacement set of 10.5 when my 10.6 scratched on the other MBP and they could not work out why I had 10.6 in the first place there are some strange goings on at Apple They sent me 2 cloned copies of 10.5 replacement disks from Taiwon for my other MBshould hP which was shipped with 10.6 and said you can use it for your number 2 MBP is almost the same but it rejected it. so inthe end I paid for a replacement set but they

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