Q: Spinning wheel of death - should I assume my HD is toast?
3.5-year old MacBook suddenly spinning beachball all the time. Performance was perfect until recently, when Chrome began crashing regularly. Is this the HD? It seems like it is but what is eating all the virtual memory?
I've already repaired what I could in Disk Utility and ordered a new hard drive (1TB). I plan to clone this one if necessary - is there anything else to do at this point?
EtreCheck version: 2.9.6 (256)
Report generated 2016-02-26 17:13:39
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Runtime 54:38
Performance: Poor
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Problem: Beachballing
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012)
[Technical Specifications] - [User Guide] - [Warranty & Service]
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro9,1
1 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 4-core
8 GB RAM Upgradeable - [Instructions]
BANK 0/DIMM0
4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok
BANK 1/DIMM0
4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok
Bluetooth: Good - Handoff/Airdrop2 supported
Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
Battery: Health = Normal - Cycle count = 27
Intel HD Graphics 4000
Color LCD 1280 x 800
NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M - VRAM: 1024 MB
OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 (14F1605) - Time since boot: about one day
APPLE HDD TOSHIBA MK7559GSXF disk0 : (750.16 GB) (Rotational)
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
Macintosh HD (disk1) / : 748.93 GB (66.73 GB free)
Core Storage: disk0s2 749.30 GB Online
HL-DT-ST DVDRW GS31N ()
Primax Electronics Apple Optical USB Mouse
Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
Apple, Inc. Keyboard Hub
Apple Inc. Apple Keyboard
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
/etc/hosts - Count: 1 - Corrupt!
Mac App Store and identified developers
/Library/Extensions
[not loaded] org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxDrv (4.2.4 - 2016-02-25) [Support]
[not loaded] org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetAdp (4.2.4 - 2016-02-25) [Support]
[not loaded] org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetFlt (4.2.4 - 2016-02-25) [Support]
[not loaded] org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxUSB (4.2.4 - 2016-02-25) [Support]
/Library/Extensions/VyprVPN
[loaded] foo.tap (1.0 - 2016-02-25) [Support]
[loaded] foo.tun (1.0 - 2016-02-25) [Support]
VirtualBox: Path: /Library/StartupItems/VirtualBox
Startup items are obsolete in OS X Yosemite
[loaded] 152 Apple tasks
[running] 61 Apple tasks
[loaded] 183 Apple tasks
[running] 80 Apple tasks
[loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist (2012-09-28) [Support]
[loaded] com.divx.dms.agent.plist (2015-12-08) [Support]
[loaded] com.divx.update.agent.plist (2015-11-30) [Support]
[loaded] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist (2013-04-17) [Support]
[loaded] org.macosforge.xquartz.startx.plist (2014-08-11) [Support]
[loaded] com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist (2012-09-28) [Support]
[failed] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist (2015-12-23) [Support]
[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist (2010-08-25) [Support]
[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensingV2.helper.plist (2015-07-01) [Support]
[loaded] com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist (2013-04-17) [Support]
[running] com.sonos.SonosLibraryServer.plist (2016-02-19) [Support]
[loaded] org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx.plist (2014-08-11) [Support]
[running] vyprvpnservice.plist (2015-11-08) [Support]
[loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist (2012-10-10) [Support]
[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist (2015-12-14) [Support]
[loaded] com.iobit.AMCUpdate.plist (2016-01-04) [Support]
[loaded] com.iobit.MacBoosterMini.plist (2016-01-04) [Support]
[failed] com.jdibackup.ZipCloud.autostart.plist (2015-10-01) [Support]
[failed] com.jdibackup.ZipCloud.backupstart.plist (2015-10-01) [Support]
[failed] com.jdibackup.ZipCloud.notify.plist (2015-10-22) [Support]
[loaded] org.virtualbox.vboxwebsrv.plist (2012-12-16) [Support]
[running] One Apple task
iTunesHelper Application (/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app)
CrossOver CD Helper Application (/Applications/CrossOver.app/Contents/Resources/CrossOver CD Helper.app)
Octoshape Application (~/Library/Octoshape/Octoshape.app)
AdobeResourceSynchronizer Application Hidden (/Applications/Adobe Acrobat X Pro/Adobe Acrobat Pro.app/Contents/Support/AdobeResourceSynchronizer.app)
Dropbox Application (/Applications/Dropbox.app)
[running] com.apple.xpc.launchd.oneshot.0x10000006.EtreCheck (2016-02-20)
[running] com.codeweavers.CrossOverCDHelper.8268 (2016-02-25)
[running] com.getdropbox.dropbox.16788 (2016-02-16)
[running] com.google.Chrome.114484 (2016-02-17)
[running] com.octoshape.client.10256 (2016-02-25)
JavaAppletPlugin: Java 8 Update 73 build 02 (2016-02-07) Check version
OVSHelper: 1.1 (2016-01-03) [Support]
Default Browser: 600 - SDK 10.10 (2015-07-16)
Flip4Mac WMV Plugin: 3.2.0.16 - SDK 10.8 (2014-04-04) [Support]
PrintDialogExt: 3.5 (2006-03-10) [Support]
AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: 10.1.16 (2015-11-19) [Support]
FlashPlayer-10.6: 20.0.0.267 - SDK 10.6 (2016-01-07) [Support]
DivX Web Player: 3.5.0.5 - SDK 10.10 (2015-12-16) [Support]
Silverlight: 5.1.40416.0 - SDK 10.6 (2015-08-10) [Support]
QuickTime Plugin: 7.7.3 (2015-10-26)
Flash Player: 20.0.0.267 - SDK 10.6 (2016-01-07) Outdated! Update
SharePointBrowserPlugin: 14.0.0 (2010-08-25) [Support]
AdobePDFViewer: 10.1.16 (2015-11-19) [Support]
NPDjVu: Unknown (2006-03-10) [Support]
OctoshapeWeb: 1.0 - SDK 10.8 (2014-10-22) [Support]
AllMyTube (2015-07-16)
3rd Party Preference Panes: ⓘ
Flash Player (2015-12-23) [Support]
Flip4Mac WMV (2014-04-04) [Support]
FUSE for OS X (OSXFUSE) (2013-07-18) [Support]
Hosts (2012-09-11) [Support]
Java (2016-02-07) [Support]
Perian (2011-07-23) [Support]
Time Machine not configured!
16% fontd
11% DivXUpdate
4% kernel_task
4% WindowServer
2% Dropbox
844 MB repair_packages
769 MB kernel_task
459 MB Google Chrome
401 MB Google Chrome Helper(4)
393 MB Finder
Virtual Memory Information: ⓘ
155 MB Free RAM
7.84 GB Used RAM (1016 MB Cached)
0 B Swap Used
Feb 25, 2016, 08:37:30 PM Self test - passed
Feb 25, 2016, 01:27:17 AM ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/soffice_2016-02-25-012717_[redacted].crash
org.openoffice.script - /Applications/OpenOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice
Feb 24, 2016, 11:54:12 PM ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/BitTorrent_2016-02-24-235412_[redacted].crash
com.bittorrent.BitTorrent - /Applications/BitTorrent.app/Contents/MacOS/BitTorrent
Feb 23, 2016, 11:55:53 PM ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/BitTorrent_2016-02-23-235553_[redacted].crash
Feb 19, 2016, 08:50:45 AM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Kernel_2016-02-19-085045_[redacted].panic [Details]
Posted on Feb 26, 2016 4:27 PM