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Q: all applications quit unexpectedly within minutes of launch

I'm honestly at the end of my rope. I'm running a late 2011 mbp, and this problem started two days ago. Every application I open quits unexpectedly after launching if I do anything with it--for example, if I try to search in Finder or go too in-depth into folders, Finder will relaunch itself. Or if I try to type something into TextEdit, the spinning wheel comes up & then TextEdit quits, or if I try to load a webpage with Google Chrome then it will quit after a few minutes; sometimes it even causes the whole computer to freeze up & I have had to force restart several times. Same with virtually all other applications at this point other than Terminal. On top of that, everything is also extremely slow--it's gotten to the point where I can do virtually nothing on my computer. I booted up in Safe Mode & things worked more smoothly, so I'm suspecting that it has something to do with my account's preferences/bootup things, whatever those are. I've had a long-standing problem with Powerpoint involving this issue, but I don't use Powerpoint often so I didn't see fit to fix the issue, since I could just log into another user account to use it. Another problem that started really only yesterday was that I can no longer type in Chinese--when I type, the spinning wheel comes up for several seconds & then either nothing happens at all or just the English letters appear, which is also frustrating.

 

Things I've tried already:

Disk Utility - verified disk & it was fine, however when I was repairing permissions these stuck out to me:

Warning: SUID file “System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent” has been modified and will not be repaired.

Open error 1: “Operation not permitted” on System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.10/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/DBI/DBI.bundle

 

Entered the "syslog -k Sender kernel -k Message CReq 'Channel t|GPU D|I/O|n Cause: -' | tail | open -ef" command into Terminal, these were my results:

May 29 19:23:53 unknownb88d12351884 kernel[0] <Debug>: disk0s2: I/O error.

--- last message repeated 4 times ---

May 30 09:06:23 Olivias-MacBook-Pro-2 kernel[0] <Debug>: disk0s2: I/O error.

--- last message repeated 2 times ---

May 30 16:13:36 unknownb88d12351884 kernel[0] <Debug>: disk0s2: I/O error.

--- last message repeated 129 times ---

May 31 18:01:00 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: disk0s2: I/O error.

--- last message repeated 2 times ---

May 31 18:03:43 unknownb88d12351884 kernel[0] <Debug>: disk0s2: I/O error.

--- last message repeated 67 times ---

 

I really don't know what to do at this point. I'm not sure if it's a hard drive/hardware problem, which is what a few internet searches have suggested. The slowness of the laptop is not due to it running low on storage, since I have at least 50gb free. I'm preparing for the worst-case scenario and buying an external hard drive to back up my laptop's contents within the week, but I'm really hoping it doesn't come to that. Does anyone have any idea about what I can do?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on May 31, 2014 9:19 PM

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  • by Carolyn Samit,

    Carolyn Samit Carolyn Samit Jun 1, 2014 4:11 AM in response to luhans
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    Jun 1, 2014 4:11 AM in response to luhans

    50GB's free could be an issue depending on the size of the hard drive.

     

    Click your Apple menu  top left in your screen. From the drop down menu click About This Mac > More Info > Storage

     

    Make sure there's at least 15% free disk space.

     

     

     

    The startup disk may need repairing. Not the same as permissons.


     

    Launch Disk Utility located in HD > Applications > Utillities

     

    Select the startup disk on the left then select the First Aid tab.

     

    Click:  Verify Disk  (not Verify Disk Permissions)

     

    If DU reports errors, restart your Mac while holding down the Command + R keys. From there you should be able to access the built in utilities in OS X Recovery to repair the startup disk.

     

    Make sure to back up all important data first before using OS X Recovery.

     

     

    SUID messages can be ignored > Mac OS X: Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions messages that you can safely ignore

  • by andyBall_uk,Solvedanswer

    andyBall_uk andyBall_uk Jun 1, 2014 8:51 AM in response to luhans
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    Jun 1, 2014 8:51 AM in response to luhans

    >>I'm preparing for the worst-case scenario and buying an external hard drive to back up my laptop's contents within the week, but I'm really hoping it doesn't come to that. Does anyone have any idea about what I can do?

     

    Get that external & backup as soon as possible; your drive is failing.

  • by luhans,

    luhans luhans Jun 1, 2014 10:06 AM in response to andyBall_uk
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    Jun 1, 2014 10:06 AM in response to andyBall_uk

    Okay, so my hard drive is failing. I'm lost as to what I should do next. What's my next step? Do I need to take it to Apple to get it replaced, or should I do a DIY (if that's even possible)? Do you know approximately how expensive it would be to replace the hard drive? I'm not exactly drowning in money so I'd like to get this problem fixed without having to spend a lot of money, though realistically I know that might not always be the case, especially with Apple products.

  • by WZZZ,

    WZZZ WZZZ Jun 1, 2014 11:53 AM in response to luhans
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    Jun 1, 2014 11:53 AM in response to luhans

    If you clone your current system to an external drive--if it's not too late to do that--you can just keep booting from that until you get around to replacing the internal. Of course, if you do that you want to have that external eventually backed up to another external as well, but for the time being you can probably get by just on the one external.

     

    Google Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper. You can also do a backup using Disk Utility>Restore.