Mavericks has ruined my Mac

Start your own thread and I will tell you there. Yawn.

Bye from here

Your friend Pete

Name calling isn't neccessary.

I will politely explain so you better understand how these forums work.

"Thread jumping" or "thread hijacking" is the act of posting your own issues in a thread that has been started by other poster or user that is looking for a solution to their own problems without other users or posters interrupting that process of helping out one, individual user in a post at one time.

This "jumping" into a specific conversation of a specific user or poster issue is considered, impolite and, somewhat, rude as this makes users here, who volunteer their help and experience, harder to help that particular user when other multiple users "jump into the middle of another user's issues expecting even other helpful volunteer users to help either the orignal user or subsequent other user's who do not post their own individual thread to specifically help with their individual issues.

It becomes a confusing mess for everyone as both the user with issues and the technical user volunteers get confused as to who/m they are addressing the help and troubleshooting advice to.

Something to keep in mind next time you need to either use these technical support forums or any other type of technical support forums.

These types of forums have specific protocols to follow.

These types of technical sites do not work like other public, social media sites.

So, I now hope you understand.

Thank you.

Thank you for the clarification.

I just thought that because my symptoms were identical (upgraded to Mavericks and Mac and became very slooow), that it belonged here. Why would we want to create two threads for the same problem?

I do cause mapping in my work and you never start a new cause map for the same problem, - you always add on to the cause map that was created last time the incident occurred.

Starting a new post makes it possible to be more visible and to offer individualized technical support.

It, also, helps us as the points system used here for crediting users who have helped or solved a user's issue/s are given the proper credit that they are due for working with an individual user's technical issues.

Also, if a particular post has been solved and you have added to thiis solved thread! your issues may never get addressed or ignored.

It is just better, all around for everyone who comes here for help, to just start a new post/discussion of the technical issues that, specifically, apply to your own situation and not tack on to an older posting just because it might be similar.

Ol\' Mitch wrote:

... Why would we want to create two threads for the same problem?

Your problem was iBooks, since remedied.

The OP's problem was a failing hard disk drive, since remedied.

I'm not finding the Venn in that diagram.

If you have more questions about using Apple Support Communities, please start your own discussion in Using Apple Support Communities.

"I'm not finding the Venn in that diagram"

Logic Humor!! I love that!!!

Wow, you guys are really harsh. The origional post said the guy upgraded to mavericks and his computer was slow.

That's what happened to me.

I solved the problem (for me). Thought other would be interested...

Have to be otherwise everybody with a slow running Mac under Mavericks will think that updating iBooks will cure everything.

Pete

Okay, I'm just saying that it worked for me. Keep looking for a more complex answer to your problem and and I'm sure you will find it.

I'm out. Sorry to have tread on your sacred "public" territory.

I don't have any problems with Mavericks.

Cheers

Pete

Ol\' Mitch wrote:

I wouldn't even know what "threadjumping" is

Threadjumping is when a poster, unwilling or unable to ask a question of his own freeloads on someone elses question, even though the problems are not connected.

For an example please read this thread.

I have to say I am on Ol/' Mitch's side here. This is why it is soooOOOO hard to find a solution to problems!!! You want a new thread for everything! Same symtoms sometime have differnet remedies. Doesn't mean you dont follow the same cure path!

I had the same symptoms here at the start, followed this thread. Came to repairing disk permisisons, and guess what the number one issue that it repaired about 500 or more times in the list....IBOOKS....so give it a rest.

Thought or suggestion here, instead of getting testy everytime someone comments on, as Mitch noted, a PUBLIC thread, either you start a new 'private' thread where you can invite your own people to and never find a solution, or accept and try all suggestions.

Thank you Mitch, my machine is running better now.

PS the only person here I see with a problem is Pete trying to be snarky. If you dont have an issue with Mavericks, then why are you searching forums for problems....you're comments are not helping. And by the way, as noted, iBooks was the problem in my case too.....

ericrain wrote:

I have to say I am on Ol/' Mitch's side here. This is why it is soooOOOO hard to find a solution to problems!!! You want a new thread for everything! Same symtoms sometime have differnet remedies. Doesn't mean you dont follow the same cure path!

I had the same symptoms here at the start, followed this thread. Came to repairing disk permisisons, and guess what the number one issue that it repaired about 500 or more times in the list....IBOOKS....so give it a rest.

Thought or suggestion here, instead of getting testy everytime someone comments on, as Mitch noted, a PUBLIC thread, either you start a new 'private' thread where you can invite your own people to and never find a solution, or accept and try all suggestions.

Thank you Mitch, my machine is running better now.

PS the only person here I see with a problem is Pete trying to be snarky. If you dont have an issue with Mavericks, then why are you searching forums for problems....you're comments are not helping. And by the way, as noted, iBooks was the problem in my case too.....

Another example of threadjumping, thanks

Threads on a public forum don't belong to "people".

They belong to "problems".

Think about it...

I did

And I noticed how rude it is to assume that your problem should take precedence over the problem of the person who had the capability of starting their own thread.