file selection

Hardware Information:

iMac (27-inch, Mid 2011)

iMac - model: iMac12,2

1 3.1 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 4 cores

12 GB RAM

Video Information:

AMD Radeon HD 6970M - VRAM: 1024 MB

Audio Plug-ins:

BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0

AirPlay: Version: 1.9

AppleAVBAudio: Version: 2.0.0

iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3

Startup Items:

esets_daemon_si - Path: /Library/StartupItems/esets_daemon_si

HP Trap Monitor - Path: /Library/StartupItems/HP Trap Monitor

ProTec6b - Path: /Library/StartupItems/ProTec6b

System Software:

OS X 10.9 (13A603) - Uptime: 18 days 0:37:51

Disk Information:

FUJITSU MJA2160BH FFS G1 disk1 : (160.04 GB)

EFI (disk1s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB

Macintosh HD (disk1s2) /Volumes/Macintosh HD 1: 159.7 GB (91.94 GB free)

ST31000528AS disk0 : (1 TB)

EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB

Macintosh HD (disk0s2) /: 999.35 GB (349.72 GB free)

Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB

OPTIARC DVD RW AD-5690H

USB Information:

Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)

Datacolor Datacolor Spyder4

Apple Inc. BRCM2046 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

composite_device 500.11 GB

EFI (disk8s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB

Macbook Pro (disk8s2) /Volumes/Macbook Pro: 479 GB (44.15 GB free)

Recovery HD (disk8s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB

BOOTCAMP (disk8s4) /Volumes/BOOTCAMP: 20.25 GB (3.31 GB free)

Apple Internal Memory Card Reader

Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver

Wacom Co.,Ltd. CTH-670

SanDisk SDDR-189 7.97 GB

NIKON D40X (disk9s1) /Volumes/NIKON D40X: 7.96 GB (6.54 GB free)

SMI Corporation USB DISK

Wacom Co.,Ltd. Wacom Wireless Receiver

Western Digital Ext HDD 1021 2 TB

EFI (disk3s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB

System Back Up (disk3s2) /Volumes/System Back Up: 2 TB (695.61 GB free)

Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Display)

Apple Inc. Display Audio

Apple Inc. Apple Thunderbolt Display

FireWire Information:

WD My Book 1112 800mbit - 800mbit max

disk7s1 (disk7s1) <not mounted>: 32 KB

Silver Image Drive (disk7s3) /Volumes/Silver Image Drive: 2 TB (784.77 GB free)

WD My Book 400mbit - 400mbit max

EFI (disk2s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB

Big Disc (disk2s2) /Volumes/Big Disc: 999.86 GB (651.87 GB free)

Thunderbolt Information:

Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus

Seagate GoFlex Adapter Thunderbolt

Apple Inc. Thunderbolt Display

Kernel Extensions:

com.avatron.AVExVideo (1.7)

com.avatron.AVExFramebuffer (1.7)

com.eset.kext.esets_kac (1.0.0d1)

Problem System Launch Daemons:

Problem System Launch Agents:

Launch Daemons:

[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist

[loaded] com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist

[not loaded] com.gopro.stereomodestatus.plist

[loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2.Agent.plist

[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist

[loaded] com.wdc.WDDMservice.plist

[loaded] com.WesternDigital.WDSmartWareD.plist

Launch Agents:

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

[loaded] com.adobe.CS5ServiceManager.plist

[loaded] com.hp.help.tocgenerator.plist

[loaded] com.hp.messagecenter.launcher.plist

[loaded] com.wacom.pentablet.plist

User Launch Agents:

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

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

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

[not loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist

[not loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac.helperTool.plist

[not loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac.trashSizeWatcher.plist

[not loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac.volumeWatcher.plist

[loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2Helper.diskSpaceWatcher.plist

[loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2Helper.scheduledScan.plist

[loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2Helper.trashWatcher.plist

User Login Items:

SpyderUtility

ScreenCapture

SpyderGallery Desktop

Garmin ANT Agent

Canon IJ Network Scanner Selector EX

Google Drive

ESET Cybersecurity

WDQuickView

BambooCore

3rd Party Preference Panes:

Air Display Preferences

BrowserPlus

Cineform

Flash Player

Java

VLC Streamer

PenTablet

WDQuickView

Internet Plug-ins:

AdobeExManDetect.plugin

AdobePDFViewer.plugin

AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin

Default Browser.plugin

Flash Player.plugin

FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin

GarminGpsControl.plugin

Google Earth Web Plug-in.plugin

iPhotoPhotocast.plugin

JavaAppletPlugin.plugin

OfficeLiveBrowserPlugin.plugin

QuickTime Plugin.plugin

SharePointBrowserPlugin.plugin

Silverlight.plugin

WacomNetscape.plugin

WacomTabletPlugin.plugin

User Internet Plug-ins:

BrowserPlus_2.9.8.plugin

Bad Fonts:

None

Time Machine:

Skip System Files: NO

Mobile backups: OFF

Auto backup: YES

Volumes being backed up:

Macintosh HD: Disk size: 999.35 GB Disk used: 649.63 GB

Destinations:

System Back Up [Local] (Last used)

Total size: 2 TB

Total number of backups: 68

Oldest backup: 2013-03-19 05:30:08 +0000

Last backup: 2013-10-30 19:58:24 +0000

Size of backup disk: Adequate

Backup size 2 TB > (Disk used 649.63 GB X 3)

Time Machine details may not be accurate.

All volumes being backed up may not be listed.

Top Processes by CPU:

4% Garmin ANT Agent

2% WindowServer

1% EtreCheck

0% esets_gui

0% ocspd

0% plugin-container

0% SpyderGallery Desktop

0% fontd

0% AdobeCrashDaemon

0% softwareupdated

Top Processes by Memory:

2.10 GB
Adobe Photoshop CS6

1.21 GB
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4

922 MB
firefox

344 MB
com.apple.IconServicesAgent

209 MB
WindowServer

197 MB
Finder

172 MB
mds_stores

135 MB
softwareupdated

86 MB mds

86 MB Google Drive

Virtual Memory Statistics:

315 MB
Free RAM

5.47 GB
Active RAM

4.82 GB
Inactive RAM

1.35 GB
Wired RAM

5.27 GB
Page-ins

210 MB
Page-outs

Uninstalled everything that I could find, killed off all of the login items, killed the process for others and no change.

I did boot from a Mavricks USB drive and ran verify disk permissions and then fixed them. While in there, I tried to navigate it to a new image and it actually worked - it let me move around on the HDD to different folders.

Rebooted and the same problem is back in all applications and websites.

Here's the latest etresoft info.

Hardware Information:

iMac (27-inch, Mid 2011)

iMac - model: iMac12,2

1 3.1 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 4 cores

12 GB RAM

Video Information:

AMD Radeon HD 6970M - VRAM: 1024 MB

Audio Plug-ins:

BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0

AirPlay: Version: 1.9

AppleAVBAudio: Version: 2.0.0

iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3

Startup Items:

esets_daemon_si - Path: /Library/StartupItems/esets_daemon_si

HP Trap Monitor - Path: /Library/StartupItems/HP Trap Monitor

ProTec6b - Path: /Library/StartupItems/ProTec6b

System Software:

OS X 10.9 (13A603) - Uptime: 0 days 0:4:23

Disk Information:

ST31000528AS disk0 : (1 TB)

EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB

Macintosh HD (disk0s2) /: 999.35 GB (357.85 GB free)

Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB

OPTIARC DVD RW AD-5690H

FUJITSU MJA2160BH FFS G1 disk1 : (160.04 GB)

EFI (disk1s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB

Macintosh HD (disk1s2) <not mounted>: 159.7 GB

USB Information:

Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)

Datacolor Datacolor Spyder4

Apple Inc. BRCM2046 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

SMI Corporation USB DISK

Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver

Apple Internal Memory Card Reader

Wacom Co.,Ltd. Wacom Wireless Receiver

Western Digital Ext HDD 1021 2 TB

EFI (disk5s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB

System Back Up (disk5s2) <not mounted>: 2 TB

Apple Inc. Apple Thunderbolt Display

Apple Inc. Display Audio

Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Display)

FireWire Information:

WD My Book 1112 800mbit - 800mbit max

disk2s1 (disk2s1) <not mounted>: 32 KB

Silver Image Drive (disk2s3) <not mounted>: 2 TB

WD My Book 400mbit - 400mbit max

EFI (disk4s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB

Big Disc (disk4s2) <not mounted>: 999.86 GB

Thunderbolt Information:

Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus

Seagate GoFlex Adapter Thunderbolt

Apple Inc. Thunderbolt Display

Kernel Extensions:

Problem System Launch Daemons:

Problem System Launch Agents:

Launch Daemons:

[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist

[loaded] com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist

[not loaded] com.gopro.stereomodestatus.plist

[loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2.Agent.plist

[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist

[loaded] com.wdc.WDDMservice.plist

[loaded] com.WesternDigital.WDSmartWareD.plist

Launch Agents:

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

[loaded] com.adobe.CS5ServiceManager.plist

[loaded] com.hp.help.tocgenerator.plist

[loaded] com.hp.messagecenter.launcher.plist

[loaded] com.wacom.pentablet.plist

User Launch Agents:

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

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

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

[loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2Helper.diskSpaceWatcher.plist

[loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2Helper.scheduledScan.plist

[loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2Helper.trashWatcher.plist

User Login Items:

None

3rd Party Preference Panes:

BrowserPlus

Cineform

Flash Player

Java

VLC Streamer

PenTablet

WDQuickView

Internet Plug-ins:

AdobeExManDetect.plugin

AdobePDFViewer.plugin

AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin

Default Browser.plugin

Flash Player.plugin

FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin

GarminGpsControl.plugin

Google Earth Web Plug-in.plugin

iPhotoPhotocast.plugin

JavaAppletPlugin.plugin

OfficeLiveBrowserPlugin.plugin

QuickTime Plugin.plugin

SharePointBrowserPlugin.plugin

Silverlight.plugin

WacomNetscape.plugin

WacomTabletPlugin.plugin

User Internet Plug-ins:

BrowserPlus_2.9.8.plugin

Bad Fonts:

None

Time Machine:

Skip System Files: NO

Mobile backups: OFF

Auto backup: YES

Volumes being backed up:

Macintosh HD: Disk size: 999.35 GB Disk used: 641.5 GB

Destinations:

System Back Up [Local] (Last used)

Total size: 2 TB

Total number of backups: 68

Oldest backup: 2013-03-19 05:30:08 +0000

Last backup: 2013-10-30 19:58:24 +0000

Size of backup disk: Adequate

Backup size 2 TB > (Disk used 641.5 GB X 3)

Time Machine details may not be accurate.

All volumes being backed up may not be listed.

Top Processes by CPU:

16% mdworker

1% WindowServer

1% fontd

1% EtreCheck

0% firefox

0% dpd

Top Processes by Memory:

369 MB
firefox

172 MB
com.apple.IconServicesAgent

74 MB WindowServer

74 MB Dock

61 MB mds_stores

49 MB Finder

49 MB PenTabletDriver

37 MB mds

37 MB plugin-container

25 MB SystemUIServer

Virtual Memory Statistics:

9.44 GB
Free RAM

1.17 GB
Active RAM

348 MB
Inactive RAM

1.05 GB
Wired RAM

254 MB
Page-ins

0 B Page-outs

Thanks for the suggestion Linc.

I unplugged all external devices, including the thunderbolt display.

I have no aftermarket expansion cards.

All USB, Firewire and Thunderbolt ports were open (clear, nothing plugged in)

Mouse and Keyboard are coordless/Bluetooth

As you indicated, I had to enter my PW to log in.

Yep, same problem.

Rebooted system normally with everything still disconnected.

Same problem.

I actually consider this progress as now, I know for certain that it's nothing that's plugged into the iMac.

If this information helps, prior to updating to Mavricks, this system did have infrequent problems with the UIsystemserver getting hinky and I'd have to quit the process so it would restart. That problem manifested itself in overall system slowdown and the system apps on the upper right (time, time machine, etc., etc.,) would show a spinning beachball.

Here are the results from the console - three different applications.

Just to throw another little mystery into this - using Safari, the file selection window doesnt "go away", everything works normally.

Photoshop CS6 Opening file:

11/17/13 7:36:05.537 AM Adobe Photoshop CS6[746]: -[NSProcessInfo enableSuddenTermination] has been invoked more times than necessary to balance invocations of -[NSProcessInfo disableSuddenTermination]. Ignoring.

Adobe Lightroom 4.4 Opening catalog:

11/17/13 7:37:24.158 AM Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4[943]: An uncaught exception was raised

11/17/13 7:37:24.158 AM Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4[943]: *** -[__NSArrayM objectAtIndex:]: index 95 beyond bounds [0 .. 44]

11/17/13 7:37:24.185 AM Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4[943]: (

0 CoreFoundation 0x00000001022be41c __exceptionPreprocess + 172

1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x0000000101fabe75 objc_exception_throw + 43

2 CoreFoundation 0x000000010219c935 -[__NSArrayM objectAtIndex:] + 245

3 ImageKit 0x00000001092d11e3 -[IKImageFlowView _reloadCellDataAtIndex:] + 48

4 ImageKit 0x00000001092d127e -[IKImageFlowView reloadCellDataAtIndex:] + 29

5 FinderKit 0x000000011e15f221 -[FI_TFlowViewController(DataSource) reloadNodes:forNode:] + 275

6 FinderKit 0x000000011e113d9f -[FI_TBrowserViewController(DataSource) updatePropertiesForNodes:inContainerNode:] + 811

7 FinderKit 0x000000011e13063b -[FI_TListViewController updatePropertiesForNodes:inContainerNode:] + 116

8 FinderKit 0x000000011e21b6fd _ZN11TNodeEngine20NodesChangedCallbackERK7TFENodeRKNSt3__16vectorINS3_4pairIS0_ jEENS3_9allocatorIS6_EEEERK13TFENodeVectorSE_ + 29

9 FinderKit 0x000000011e21a77b _ZN11TNodeEngine17ProcessCompletionEP30TNodeEngineNotificationHandler + 71

10 FinderKit 0x000000011e0c3033 _ZN22IAsynchronousOperation29PerformSecondStepOnMainThreadEv + 41

11 FinderKit 0x000000011e0c326c ___ZN22IAsynchronousOperation30ScheduleSecondStepOnMainThreadEv_block_invoke + 24

12 libdispatch.dylib 0x0000000102d811d7 _dispatch_call_block_and_release + 12

13 libdispatch.dylib 0x0000000102d7e2ad _dispatch_client_callout + 8

14 libdispatch.dylib 0x0000000102d85f03 _dispatch_main_queue_callback_4CF + 333

15 CoreFoundation 0x0000000102225839 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_SERVICING_THE_MAIN_DISPATCH_QUEUE__ + 9

16 CoreFoundation 0x00000001021e0b14 __CFRunLoopRun + 1636

17 CoreFoundation 0x00000001021e0275 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 309

18 HIToolbox 0x0000000104344f0d RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 226

19 HIToolbox 0x0000000104344cb7 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 479

20 HIToolbox 0x0000000104344abc _BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInModeWithFilter + 65

21 AppKit 0x000000010057628e _DPSNextEvent + 1434

22 AppKit 0x00000001005758db -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 122

23 AppKit 0x00000001008d4c5e -[NSApplication _realDoModalLoop:peek:] + 642

24 AppKit 0x00000001008d336e -[NSApplication runModalForWindow:] + 117

25 AgUI 0x000000010191d925 AgColorUtils_sampleScreen_L + 5876

26 AppKit 0x0000000100ba0f3b -[NSSavePanel runModal] + 276

27 AppKit 0x0000000100a2130b -[NSDocumentController beginOpenPanel:forTypes:completionHandler:] + 272

28 AppKit 0x0000000100a21085 -[NSDocumentController beginOpenPanelWithCompletionHandler:] + 356

29 AppKit 0x0000000100a20afd -[NSDocumentController openDocument:] + 364

30 AppKit 0x00000001007943d0 -[NSApplication sendAction:to:from:] + 327

31 AppKit 0x00000001007af348 -[NSMenuItem _corePerformAction] + 394

32 AppKit 0x00000001007af084 -[NSCarbonMenuImpl performActionWithHighlightingForItemAtIndex:] + 117

33 AppKit 0x00000001007fe4dd -[NSMenu _internalPerformActionForItemAtIndex:] + 35

34 AppKit 0x00000001007fe359 -[NSCarbonMenuImpl _carbonCommandProcessEvent:handlerCallRef:] + 104

35 AppKit 0x00000001007a5176 NSSLMMenuEventHandler + 716

36 HIToolbox 0x000000010431e6d4 _ZL23DispatchEventToHandlersP14EventTargetRecP14OpaqueEventRefP14HandlerCallRec + 892

37 HIToolbox 0x000000010431dc87 _ZL30SendEventToEventTargetInternalP14OpaqueEventRefP20OpaqueEventTargetRefP14H andlerCallRec + 385

38 HIToolbox 0x0000000104331d90 SendEventToEventTarget + 40

39 HIToolbox 0x0000000104367a30 _ZL18SendHICommandEventjPK9HICommandjjhPKvP20OpaqueEventTargetRefS5_PP14OpaqueE ventRef + 420

40 HIToolbox 0x000000010439a618 SendMenuCommandWithContextAndModifiers + 59

41 HIToolbox 0x000000010439a5c4 SendMenuItemSelectedEvent + 178

42 HIToolbox 0x000000010439a4a5 _ZL19FinishMenuSelectionP13SelectionDataP10MenuResultS2_ + 94

43 HIToolbox 0x00000001043a2425 _ZL14MenuSelectCoreP8MenuData5PointdjPP13OpaqueMenuRefPt + 718

44 HIToolbox 0x00000001043a2051 _HandleMenuSelection2 + 446

45 AppKit 0x000000010071779c _NSHandleCarbonMenuEvent + 284

46 AppKit 0x000000010057656e _DPSNextEvent + 2170

47 AppKit 0x00000001005758db -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 122

48 AppKit 0x00000001005699cc -[NSApplication run] + 553

49 AppKit 0x0000000100554803 NSApplicationMain + 940

50 Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 0x0000000100001653 main + 1107

51 Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 0x00000001000011f8 start + 52

)

Mozilla Firefox (25.0.1) Attaching file to Gmail email:

11/17/13 7:41:12.900 AM com.apple.IconServicesAgent[276]: main Failed to composit image for binding VariantBinding [0x161] flags: 0x8 binding: FileInfoBinding [0x323] - extension: eps, UTI: com.adobe.encapsulated-postscript, fileType: ????.

11/17/13 7:41:12.901 AM quicklookd[941]: Warning: Cache image returned by the server has size range covering all valid image sizes. Binding: VariantBinding [0xa03] flags: 0x8 binding: FileInfoBinding [0x903] - extension: eps, UTI: com.adobe.encapsulated-postscript, fileType: ???? request size:16 scale: 1

11/17/13 7:41:13.727 AM firefox[755]: Mozilla has caught an Obj-C exception [NSRangeException: *** -[__NSArrayM objectAtIndex:]: index 31 beyond bounds [0 .. 30]]

Good morning and thanks Linc.

Anywhere, all of the time. For example - in Photoshop, I click on "File" and "Open" and I get a window to navigate to the file I want. 90% of the time, before I can do anything, that window flies away without any interaction. The other 10% of the time, I actually have a chance to click in the window and then it flies away. I don't get a chance to select any particular drive, device or location and it does the same thing in every application other than Safari.

Last night, I booted the system from a USB thumb drive and re-installed Mavricks. I haven't had a chance to check it yet but I'll do that when I get home from work this evening. My thinking is that the upgrade may have some corrupted files/permission and by booting from another device and installing the OS again, it could fix it.

If that doesn't work, I'm going to reformat the HD and do a clean install. I've got all of my applications ready to reinstall them if I have to go that far.

After upgrades to 10.7, 10.8, and 10.9, it's probably time to give this thing a fresh start.

It closes.

Linc,

Okay, I was able to log in with a guest account and use Photoshop. Everything worked as it should. I was able to select File, Open and then navigate to a drive and folder and select an image to open.