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Q: Mac OSX has been freezing since 2002

Have had my mac pro since 2008 - Snow Leopard since 2009  -- never experienced a freeze until November when I was cleaning up files and also adding text to pictures with Photoshop CS3.

 

I did al of the things apple and this help said to do with changing clock battery, resetting pram - etc - and still without doing much of anything problems on startup - finally found one poster who pretty much said let that frozen startup run.

 

I have an OSX book written by Bob LeVitus in 2002 -- with OSX freezing -- reset pram etc - but it did mention a Finder freeze (and after searching logs finder indexing did cause a memory leak)

 

In the End - let the slow powerups  run - then restart I pretty much shutdown Spotlight/indexing by moving my time machine drive into private along with my folders and my Cache in my Library -- and also deleting what turned out to be 1 corrupt Iphoto library from both the desktop and my time machine -- reselected the time machine drive.

 

In letting the long startups run and removing the iphoto libraries both my Time Machine and Hard drive are now less than 50% filled. - and only letting spotlight look at folders - nothing else -- my Mac is now totally back to a quick startup.

 

The problem as I see it with the freezes is somewhere in the base Unix and OSX handling of the disk drives and memory -- Finder/Spotlight if indexing everything can cause major freezing when you drive is getting filled (or possibly fragmented).    The more stuff you are running at the same time - the more likely you are to get a freeze and as you cannot see what is going on not much you can do about it -- so its up to those of you with the latest versions to start shouting at apple to start fixing the underpinnings.

Posted on Apr 2, 2016 12:22 PM

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    notcloudy notcloudy Jun 24, 2016 4:09 PM in response to notcloudy
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    Jun 24, 2016 4:09 PM in response to notcloudy

    Well - these freeze ups are definitely something in the part of the Operating System -- so are the slow wake ups and start ups -- had a wonderful month with no freezes since May 20th and surprise - it froze again on June 20th -- freezes only on a particular day of the month means its not hardware - its the operating system!!! 

     

    What I have learned -- when you power up - and probably when you start up - make sure everything loads that you want started before you touch the mouse/pointer/keyboard.    If its slow on startup or wakeup -- restart until clean - usually 3 times works -- if you have a job crash - or freeze - after force quit - relaunch the finder.  

     

    As to the 20th have not resolved it yet - but I think it has something to do with checking apple for updates even though I have auto update turned off.

     

    In general - the more stuff you run/activity on your system - the more likely you may be to have a freeze up if you shutdown or sleep without waiting for your system to settle down -- I am doing that by playing a few games of solitaire - about 10 minutes (forced to do it is a great way to not want to play games -- gee to I really have to)

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