I've had this computer for about 4 years, no problems with it. I have had Yosemite for 8 months without any trouble. Yesterday, my laptop started freezing about every 20 minutes for like 3 minutes at a time. It's been pretty consistent with this. I checked my usage and nothing stood out to me. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
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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 one 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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The Etrecheck report gives every indication that the HDD is failing. I suggest that you backup your data as your first priority. After that you might try to repair it via the recovery partition, Disk Utility>First Aid. In all probability a replacement HDD will be needed.
Ciao.
Hello cbeutel97,
Your hard drive is failing and you don't have a backup. You should buy an external hard drive and make a Time Machine backup today. Then get your hard drive replaced. We have lots of suggestions on how and where you can replace the hard drive and other upgrades you might want to make. But those discussions can wait until your machine is properly backed up.
This string of text has occurs whenever my computer gets slow or there is beach balling. It's always the first two lines and sometimes the last two.
1/31/16 7:11:01.261 PM ReportCrash[380]: Saved crash report for cfprefsd[383] version 1151.16 to /Users/NAME/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/cfprefsd_2016-01-31-191101_NAME-MacB ook-Pro.crash
1/31/16 7:11:01.264 PM ReportCrash[380]: Removing excessive log: file:///Users/NAME/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/cfprefsd_2016-01-31-190456_NA ME-MacBook-Pro.crash
1/31/16 7:11:10.106 PM sharingd[233]: 19:11:10.105 : Stopping Handoff advertising
1/31/16 7:11:18.000 PM kernel[0]: CoreStorageGroup::completeIORequest - error 0xe00002ca detected for LVG "Macintosh HD" (2C8720B2-CA98-4E16-9A5D-24EC687214B1), pv F03EF17E-B876-4035-BE89-9DE6630E8D09, near LV byte offset = 233861611520.
1/31/16 7:11:18.000 PM kernel[0]: disk1: I/O error.
When I tried to set up a Time Machine Back up I got a message saying there is no configured AirPort base stations and I had no other option of a back-up disk. What should I do?
Do you have any suggestions for HDD replacement and whats the typical price range, because I am afraid to dump a lot of money into a computer that will continue to fail due to its age. I know I could probably look this up on my own, but I don't know much about computers and it's difficult for me to even get my computer running right now, much less search online.
cbeutel97 wrote:
When I tried to set up a Time Machine Back up I got a message saying there is no configured AirPort base stations and I had no other option of a back-up disk. What should I do?
Hello again cbeutel97,
Where you trying to setup a Time Capsule or something? All you need to do is plug in an external hard drive. It will ask if you want to use it as a Time Machine backup. You click "yes".
The startup drive is failing, or there is some other internal hardware fault.
Back up all data on the drive immediately if you don't already have a current backup. There are ways to back up a computer that isn't fully functional—ask if you need guidance.
Make a "Genius" appointment at an Apple Store, or go to another authorized service provider.
If privacy is a concern, erase the data partition(s) with the option to write zeros* (do this only if you have at least two complete, independent backups, and you know how to restore to an empty drive from any of them.) Don’t erase the recovery partition, if present.
Keeping your confidential data secure during hardware repair
Apple also recommends that you deauthorize a device in the iTunes Store before having it serviced.
*An SSD doesn't need to be zeroed.
I moved all my important files to a flash drive, as I do not have an external hard drive. Sorry I didn't know i needed a hard drive for time machine.
Thank you so much! I set up an appointment for tomorrow.
cbeutel97 wrote:
Do you have any suggestions for HDD replacement and whats the typical price range, because I am afraid to dump a lot of money into a computer that will continue to fail due to its age. I know I could probably look this up on my own, but I don't know much about computers and it's difficult for me to even get my computer running right now, much less search online.
This link will show you a multitude of compatible HDDs:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&IsNodeId=1&N=100007637 %20600003490
There are other vendors as well.
Ciao.
2012 Macbook Pro w/ Yosemite 10.10.1 keeps freezing
