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iphoto running slowly, Macbook Pro also very slow when running multiple apps

Iphoto has become almost impossible to use. I keep seeing the loading rainbow coloured circle every few seconds. Same with preview. Please help!

Problem description:

iPhoto runs very slowly, Macbook has also become slow while running apps simultaneously - loading circle shows up all the time.


EtreCheck version: 2.1.8 (121)

Report generated 29 March 2015 7:37:41 pm IST

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Hardware Information: ℹ️

MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2011) (Technical Specifications)

MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,2

1 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 4-core

4 GB RAM Upgradeable

BANK 0/DIMM0

2 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok

BANK 1/DIMM0

2 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok

Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported

Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n

Battery Health: Normal - Cycle count 822


Video Information: ℹ️

Intel HD Graphics 3000 - VRAM: 384 MB

Color LCD 1440 x 900

AMD Radeon HD 6750M - VRAM: 1024 MB


System Software: ℹ️

OS X 10.10.2 (14C109) - Time since boot: 1:5:22


Disk Information: ℹ️

TOSHIBA MK7559GSXF disk0 : (750.16 GB)

EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB

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

Macintosh HD (disk1) / : 748.93 GB (494.72 GB free)

Core Storage: disk0s2 749.30 GB Online


MATSHITADVD-R UJ-8A8


USB Information: ℹ️

Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)

Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad

Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

Apple Inc. iPhone

Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver


Thunderbolt Information: ℹ️

Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus


Gatekeeper: ℹ️

Mac App Store and identified developers


Kernel Extensions: ℹ️

/Applications/Toast 10 Titanium/Toast Titanium.app

[not loaded] com.roxio.BluRaySupport (1.1.6) [Click for support]

[not loaded] com.roxio.TDIXController (1.7) [Click for support]


/System/Library/Extensions

[not loaded] com.marvell.kext.USBGenericPrinterClass (1.0.0) [Click for support]


Startup Items: ℹ️

HWNetMgr: Path: /Library/StartupItems/HWNetMgr

HWPortDetect: Path: /Library/StartupItems/HWPortDetect

MobileBrServ: Path: /Library/StartupItems/MobileBrServ

Startup items are obsolete in OS X Yosemite


Launch Agents: ℹ️

[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.hp.help.tocgenerator.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist [Click for support]


Launch Daemons: ℹ️

[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.oracle.java.JavaUpdateHelper.plist [Click for support]


User Launch Agents: ℹ️

[running] com.hp.printerAgent.plist [Click for support]

[running] com.spotify.webhelper.plist [Click for support]


User Login Items: ℹ️

Flux Application (/Applications/Flux.app)

Dropbox Application (/Applications/Dropbox.app)


Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️

JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 7 Update 55 Check version

FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 16.0.0.305 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]

Default Browser: Version: 600 - SDK 10.10

Flash Player: Version: 16.0.0.305 - SDK 10.6 Outdated! Update

QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3

o1dbrowserplugin: Version: 5.40.2.0 - SDK 10.8 [Click for support]

googletalkbrowserplugin: Version: 5.40.2.0 - SDK 10.8 [Click for support]

iPhotoPhotocast: Version: 7.0 - SDK 10.8


User internet Plug-ins: ℹ️

WebEx64: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]

Google Earth Web Plug-in: Version: 7.0 [Click for support]


3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️

Flash Player [Click for support]

Java [Click for support]

VLC Streamer [Click for support]


Time Machine: ℹ️

Time Machine not configured!


Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️

22% WindowServer

14% mds

2% Activity Monitor

2% Dock

2% sysmond


Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️

387 MB firefox

159 MB mds_stores

107 MB Finder

107 MB WindowServer

99 MB com.apple.WebKit.WebContent


Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️

28 MB Free RAM

1.60 GB Active RAM

1.58 GB Inactive RAM

1.08 GB Wired RAM

4.89 GB Page-ins

9 MB Page-outs


Diagnostics Information: ℹ️

Mar 29, 2015, 06:30:27 PM Self test - passed

Mar 29, 2015, 04:05:49 PM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Preview_2015-03-29-160549_[redacted].hang

Mar 28, 2015, 06:31:45 PM /Users/[redacted]/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Adobe Flash Player Install Manager_2015-03-28-183145_[redacted].crash

Mar 27, 2015, 01:31:27 PM /Users/[redacted]/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Mail_2015-03-27-133127_[redact ed].crash

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)

Posted on Mar 29, 2015 7:16 AM

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User profile for user: Linc Davis
Linc Davis
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Posted on Mar 31, 2015 4:08 AM

When you see a beachball cursor or the slowness is especially bad, note the exact time: hour, minute, second.

These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:

☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)

☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.

☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.

The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select

SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages

from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select

View ▹ Show Log List

from the menu bar at the top of the screen.

Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Scroll back to the time you noted above.

Select the messages entered from then until the end of the episode, or until they start to repeat, whichever comes first.

Copy the messages to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.

The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of it useless for solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.

Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.

Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.

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User profile for user: Linc Davis
Linc Davis
User level: Level 10
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Mar 31, 2015 4:08 AM in response to Athu12

When you see a beachball cursor or the slowness is especially bad, note the exact time: hour, minute, second.

These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:

☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)

☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.

☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.

The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select

SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages

from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select

View ▹ Show Log List

from the menu bar at the top of the screen.

Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Scroll back to the time you noted above.

Select the messages entered from then until the end of the episode, or until they start to repeat, whichever comes first.

Copy the messages to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.

The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of it useless for solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.

Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.

Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.

Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

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Mar 30, 2015 5:51 AM in response to Linc Davis

Hi Linc Davis! Thanks for your suggestion, here's the text and it repeats multiple times:


30/03/15 6:19:18.968 pm Image Capture Extension[12126]: Unable to load nib file: MainMenu, exiting

30/03/15 6:19:18.970 pm com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.ImageCaptureExtension2.86936[12126]) Service exited with abnormal code: 1


I now realise that this may be because I removed the image capture extension because it was taking up too much RAM in my activity monitor. (Someone had suggested it as a solution on the support community..) So any solution to this problem? Thanks!

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Mar 30, 2015 6:20 AM in response to Athu12

If you don't already have a current backup, back up all data, then reinstall the OS.* You don't need to erase the startup volume, and you won't need the backup unless something goes wrong. If the system was upgraded from an older version of OS X, you may need the Apple ID and password you used.

There are ways to back up a computer that isn't fully functional. Ask if you need guidance.

If you installed the Java runtime distributed by Apple and still need it, you'll have to reinstall it. The same goes for Xcode. All other data will be preserved.

*The linked support article refers to OS X 10.10 ("Yosemite"), but the procedure is the same for OS X 10.7 ("Lion") and later.

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Mar 31, 2015 4:13 AM in response to Linc Davis

Thank you! I will do that as soon as I have my backup portable disk back.


Meanwhile, this error is showing up:


31/03/15 4:22:11.926 pm Finder[202]: CGContextRestoreGState: invalid context 0x0. This is a serious error. This application, or a library it uses, is using an invalid context and is thereby contributing to an overall degradation of system stability and reliability. This notice is a courtesy: please fix this problem. It will become a fatal error in an upcoming update.


Seems quite serious. What can I do to fix this? and what is this error about?

Also, in the etrecheck report.. is there anything I can fix? For example, it says:


Startup Items: ℹ️

HWNetMgr: Path: /Library/StartupItems/HWNetMgr

HWPortDetect: Path: /Library/StartupItems/HWPortDetect

MobileBrServ: Path: /Library/StartupItems/MobileBrServ

Startup items are obsolete in OS X Yosemite


If they are obsolete, should I remove them somehow?


Thanks again.

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iphoto running slowly, Macbook Pro also very slow when running multiple apps

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