Q: El Capitan freezing forces hard reboot Mail wrong
I recently upgraded to El Capitan due tot he fact that the new QB2016 wouldn't work on Mavericks. I have had nothing but problems since doing so. Indesign and Illustrator CS^ keep crashing, My computer freezes with the beach ball of death and I have to do a hard restart, my new message window in apple mail goes off the screen and I have tried every trick that I know from the internet to get it to resize, nothing doing. I don't want ot reformat and install Mavericks due to my investment into QB and don't know if Yosemite is as buggy as El Cap. I wish someone had some suggestions that I haven't seen while prowling this community discussion
I ran an etrecheck and this is the report. It says everythign is fine. It IS NOT.
EtreCheck version: 2.9.13 (267)
Report generated 2016-08-09 18:00:44
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Runtime 3:04
Performance: Good
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Problem: Beachballing
iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2010)
[Technical Specifications] - [User Guide] - [Warranty & Service]
iMac - model: iMac11,2
1 3.06 GHz Intel Core i3 CPU: 2-core
8 GB RAM Upgradeable - [Instructions]
BANK 0/DIMM0
2 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok
BANK 1/DIMM0
2 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok
BANK 0/DIMM1
2 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok
BANK 1/DIMM1
2 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok
Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported
Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
ATI Radeon HD 4670 - VRAM: 256 MB
iMac 1920 x 1080
OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 (15G31) - Time since boot: about one day
ST3500418AS disk0 : (500.11 GB) (Rotational)
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
Big Mac (disk0s2) / : 499.25 GB (198.62 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
OPTIARC DVD RW AD-5680H ()
Apple, Inc. Keyboard Hub
Apple Inc. Apple Keyboard
EPSON EPSON Scanner
Seagate Backup+ Desk 3 TB
EFI (disk1s1) <not mounted> : 315 MB
Seagate Backup Plus Drive (disk1s2) /Volumes/Seagate Backup Plus Drive : 3.00 TB (2.28 TB free)
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Apple Inc. Built-in iSight
Mitsumi Electric Apple Optical USB Mouse
Apple Card Reader
Apple Inc. BRCM2046 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Mac App Store and identified developers
/Applications/Toast 10 Titanium/Toast Titanium.app
[not loaded] com.roxio.BluRaySupport (1.1.6 - 2016-04-06) [Support]
/Library/Extensions
[loaded] com.AmbrosiaSW.AudioSupport (4.1.4 - SDK 10.11 - 2016-08-01) [Support]
~/Library/Services/ToastIt.service/Contents/MacOS
[not loaded] com.roxio.TDIXController (2.0 - 2011-02-05) [Support]
ProTec6b: Path: /Library/StartupItems/ProTec6b
Startup items are obsolete in OS X Yosemite
[not loaded] 9 Apple tasks
[loaded] 158 Apple tasks
[running] 71 Apple tasks
[not loaded] 46 Apple tasks
[loaded] 158 Apple tasks
[running] 86 Apple tasks
[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist (2016-06-13) [Support]
[running] com.adobe.AdobeCreativeCloud.plist (2016-04-12) [Support]
[loaded] com.coupons.coupond.plist (2014-02-19) [Support]
[loaded] com.epson.esua.launcher.plist (2016-03-28) [Support]
[loaded] com.googlecode.munki.ManagedSoftwareCenter.plist (2015-08-20) [Support]
[not loaded] com.googlecode.munki.MunkiStatus.plist (2015-08-20) [Support]
[not loaded] com.googlecode.munki.managedsoftwareupdate-loginwindow.plist (2015-08-20) [Support]
[running] com.monitoringclient.cmhelperd.plist (2015-11-17) [Support]
[loaded] org.macosforge.xquartz.startx.plist (2014-08-11) [Support]
[running] com.adobe.adobeupdatedaemon.plist (2016-06-13) [Support]
[loaded] com.adobe.agsservice.plist (2015-09-21) [Support]
[failed] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist (2016-04-15) [Support]
[loaded] com.ambrosiasw.ambrosiaaudiosupporthelper.daemon.plist (2015-09-10) [Support]
[loaded] com.apple.installer.osmessagetracing.plist
[loaded] com.googlecode.munki.logouthelper.plist (2015-08-20) [Support]
[running] com.googlecode.munki.managedsoftwareupdate-check.plist (2015-08-20) [Support]
[loaded] com.googlecode.munki.managedsoftwareupdate-install.plist (2015-08-20) [Support]
[loaded] com.googlecode.munki.managedsoftwareupdate-manualcheck.plist (2015-08-20) [Support]
[loaded] com.monitoringclient.client.plist (2015-11-17) [Support]
[running] com.monitoringclient.diskjournald.plist (2015-11-17) [Support]
[loaded] com.monitoringclient.updater.plist (2015-11-17) [Support]
[loaded] org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx.plist (2014-08-11) [Support]
[loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist (2013-02-28) [Support]
[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist (2016-07-12) [Support]
iTunesHelper Application (/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app)
Dropbox Application (/Applications/Dropbox.app)
Google Chrome Application (/Applications/Google Chrome.app)
CricutLauncher Application (~/Library/Application Support/CricutDesignSpace/BRIDGE/CricutLauncher.app)
[running] N4RA379GBW.com.busymac.busycal3.alarm
[running] com.ProvoCraft.CricutLauncher.118752
[running] com.adobe.CCLibrary.173792
[running] com.adobe.CCXProcess.173472
[running] com.adobe.acc.AdobeDesktopService.122912.1A917485-46EE-461B-B47D-4695D5E88B09
[running] com.adobe.accmac.170592
[loaded] com.ambrosiasw.SnapzLoginHelper
[running] com.epson.scanner.ica.120992.08453DAF-B4C5-468B-8EC6-18173AA40771
[running] com.getdropbox.dropbox.57632
[loaded] com.google.Chrome.68192
[loaded] 414 Apple tasks
[running] 205 Apple tasks
Default Browser: 601 - SDK 10.11 (2016-07-08)
AdobeExManDetect: AdobeExManDetect 1.1.0.0 - SDK 10.7 (2014-01-03) [Support]
AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: 10.1.16 (2015-11-09) [Support]
FlashPlayer-10.6: 21.0.0.226 - SDK 10.6 (2016-04-22) [Support]
Silverlight: 4.1.10329.0 (2012-10-26) [Support]
QuickTime Plugin: 7.7.3 (2016-07-08)
Flash Player: 21.0.0.226 - SDK 10.6 (2016-04-22) Outdated! Update
iPhotoPhotocast: 7.0 - SDK 10.8 (2013-04-18)
SharePointBrowserPlugin: 14.6.6 - SDK 10.6 (2016-08-05) [Support]
AdobePDFViewer: 10.1.16 (2015-11-09) [Support]
CouponPrinter-FireFox_v2: 5.0.3 - SDK 10.6 (2014-02-19) [Support]
npCricutR: Unknown
JavaAppletPlugin: 15.0.1 - SDK 10.7 (2013-10-24) Check version
CitrixOnlineWebDeploymentPlugin: 1.0.105 (2013-04-25) [Support]
Bing Highlights - Microsoft - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=198222 (2011-09-06)
Add To Amazon Wish List - Amazon.com - https://www.amazon.com/wishlist?ref=cm_wl_saf_ext (2013-01-18)
Akamai NetSession Preferences (2013-01-09) [Support]
Flash Player (2016-04-15) [Support]
Growl (2013-01-07) [Support]
StrongCare HealthCheck (2016-08-01) [Support]
Mobile backups: OFF
Auto backup: YES
Volumes being backed up:
Big Mac: Disk size: 499.25 GB Disk used: 300.63 GB
Destinations:
Seagate Backup Plus Drive [Local]
Total size: 3.00 TB
Total number of backups: 135
Oldest backup: 8/31/14, 1:11 PM
Last backup: 8/9/16, 5:46 PM
Size of backup disk: Excellent
Backup size 3.00 TB > (Disk size 499.25 GB X 3)
13% mds
6% Adobe InDesign CS6
4% mdworker(20)
2% Google Chrome
2% Google Chrome Helper(8)
1.03 GB Google Chrome Helper(9)
692 MB kernel_task
459 MB Adobe InDesign CS6
393 MB mdworker(20)
254 MB Google Chrome
1.19 GB Free RAM
6.81 GB Used RAM (2.94 GB Cached)
0 B Swap Used
Aug 8, 2016, 10:41:03 PM Self test - passed
Aug 6, 2016, 06:44:32 PM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Adobe Bridge CS6_2016-08-06-184432_[redacted].cpu_resource.diag [Details]
/Applications/Adobe Bridge CS6/Adobe Bridge CS6.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Bridge CS6
iMac G5 (20-inch iSight), OS X El Capitan (10.11.2)
Posted on Aug 9, 2016 6:13 PM