my late 2011 mbp running 10.7.5 with 2.4 GHz i5 and 4GB which I bought last September is getting the spinning wheel. It only started recently and it makes my mbp lag for 3-5 seconds. If I click on anything or type, nothing would happena dn I would have to wait then everything would happen later. I don't see why this should be happening to a mbp which is over a year old. Can anyone help me?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5)
Back up your documents and everything else important to you, not that there is any reason to believe your hard disk may be failing, but the symptoms you describe may presage an impending disk failure, and you should have backups anyway.
Boot OS X Recoveryby holding ⌘ and r (two fingers) while you start your Mac. At the Mac OS X Utilities screen, select Disk Utility. Select your startup volume (usually named "Macintosh HD") and click the Repair Disk button. Describe any errors it reports in red.
When it finishes restart your Mac and test again for operation. If it's still not behaving as you expect it should, please post the results of EtreCheck in accordance with the following instructions:
Apple Support Communities contributor etresoft wrote a very useful app to quickly gather certain system information that may help point to a cause of this problem. Go to his website, download and run EtreCheck:
http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck
Etrecheck will be in your Downloads folder. Open it from there. You may see the following dialog box:
Click Open - etresoft contributes to this forum frequently and can be considered a trustworthy developer.
It will take a moment to run as it collects its data.
Copy and paste its output in a reply.
Do not be concerned about anything that says "Problem" or "failed".
EtreCheck was designed to remove any personal information (such as your computer's name and serial numbers) but if you see anything that looks like an email address or any other personal information that should not be divulged to others, please delete or obscure that information when you post the reply.
When you are finished with EtreCheck, quit the program. It occupies very little space, and you can keep it or drag it to the Trash as you wish.
There was nothing red that came up from the first part.
The lag has been getting worse. If my mbp lags then it does all of the commands at least 3-5 seconds late with the spinning wheel. I have to force quit my applications at times.
Here is the output from EtreCheck:
Hardware Information:
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2011)
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,1
1 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2 cores
4 GB RAM
Video Information:
Intel HD Graphics 3000 - VRAM: 384 MB
System Software:
Mac OS X 10.7.5 (11G63) - Uptime: 0 days 0:3:53
Disk Information:
TOSHIBA MK5065GSXF disk0 : (500.11 GB)
disk0s1 (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) /: 499.25 GB (455.02 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
MATSHITADVD-R UJ-8A8
USB Information:
Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
Apple Inc. iPhone
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
FireWire Information:
Thunderbolt Information:
Apple, Inc. MacBook Pro
Kernel Extensions:
Problem System Launch Daemons:
[not loaded] ftp-proxy.plist
Problem System Launch Agents:
Launch Daemons:
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist
[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist
Launch Agents:
User Launch Agents:
User Login Items:
iTunesHelper
3rd Party Preference Panes:
Flash Player
Internet Plug-ins:
Flash Player.plugin
FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin
JavaAppletPlugin.plugin
QuickTime Plugin.plugin
SharePointBrowserPlugin.plugin
User Internet Plug-ins:
Bad Fonts:
None
Top Processes by CPU:
78% iTunes
5% WindowServer
2% mdworker
2% mds
1% hidd
1% SystemUIServer
1% EtreCheck
1% fontd
0% Microsoft PowerPoint
0% coreaudiod
Top Processes by Memory:
168 MB Microsoft PowerPoint
143 MB WebProcess
86 MB Safari
74 MB iTunes
57 MB WindowServer
41 MB Dock
41 MB mds
33 MB ReportCrash
25 MB SystemUIServer
20 MB Image Capture Extension
Virtual Memory Statistics
1.90 GB Free RAM
1.03 GB Active RAM
177 MB Inactive RAM
915 MB Wired RAM
302 MB Page-ins
0 B Page-outs
I also had to just hold my power button since I tried to force quit safari and nothing pooped up.
Thank you.
Possible issues. (disconenct all other hardware and reboot to check if one of those is responsible)
1: You have a corrpted cache file(s).
2: You have some other OS X or program corruption issue. Your browser plug-ins appear to be outdated.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/
3: You incured shock to your boot drive moving it while it was operating and the heads damaged data on the platters and OS X is having a hard time reading it.
4: You have some sort of hardware issue, including a dying drive. (they can go within the first year if they are factory defective in some manner, 1 year warranty will cover buy AppleCare for 3 years of coverage)
For 1-2 run through this list of fixes.
..Step by Step to fix your Mac
For #3, will require backing up just your files off the machine (you should have done that already) to a external storage drive (do not only use TimeMachine!) and require holding command r booting up into RecoveryHD and using Disk Utility to 3x Secure Erase your MacintoshHD parittion, reinstall OS X and programs then return your files only from the storage drive. (restore not from TimeMachine as it's corrupted data)
For #4 if #3 didn't work or froze while 3X secure erasing, then take it into Apple.
Spinning wheel on late 2011 mbp
