Thomas Schaller
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Mac OS X

Q: Dreaded beach ball on everything

My wife's laptop (MacBook Pro Mid 2010) has Yosemite loaded and lately it takes 10-20 seconds for everything she does with the beach ball spinning.

We ran Disk Utility, Disk Warrior and nothing really bad going on.

In the console I get the following error messages almost by the minute, and definitely when the beach ball is doing its spin:

11:47:44 AM systemstatsd:

assertion failed: 14F1912: systemstatsd = 3297 [934DD34F-EAF0-3DE6-B4A9-gDD9985 96D75]: 0xa

 

and sometimes it's:

assertion failed: 14F1912: systemstatsd = 3258 [934DD34F-EAF0-3DE6-B4A9-gDD9985 96D75]: 0xa

 

Any clues?

Thanks!

MacBook Pro, iOS 10, 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5, 8GB RAM

Posted on Sep 30, 2016 10:02 AM

by PLKids,Apple recommended
PLKids PLKids
Level 1 (49 points)
Notebooks
A:

Have you tried:

Reset the System Management Controller (SMC) on your Mac - Apple Support

 

Otherwise,

*Free disk space - you can't do much without memory.

*Check for unusual background processes in Activity Monitor

*If you haven't already, verify the disk in Disk Utility.

 

These all all non-third party solutions. If you opt for other fixes, there are many other things you could try, though I would try these first.

 

Feel free to ask questions. Good luck.

Posted on Sep 30, 2016 10:13 AM

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  • by Lexiepex,

    Lexiepex Lexiepex Oct 5, 2016 10:32 AM in response to Thomas Schaller
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    Oct 5, 2016 10:32 AM in response to Thomas Schaller

    Dying disk, the etrecheck list is not a warning, the HD indeed is dying!

    DiskWarrior is not necessary, waste of money (see John Galt's post).

    Do nothing before your backup is ready. Then change the disk.

    DiskUtility: SmartStatus "verified": only means that the smart data can still be read from the disk, so you can read these with an appropriate tool to read and (sometimes) interpret these. Tools like DriveDX or Smartsat.

  • by Thomas Schaller,

    Thomas Schaller Thomas Schaller Oct 5, 2016 10:31 AM in response to Lexiepex
    Level 1 (110 points)
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    Oct 5, 2016 10:31 AM in response to Lexiepex

    I did indeed buy a new hard drive, installed it with ifixit help - peace of cake and now I'm happy to report no more beach ball (way too cold already anyway) and etrecheck says everything is excellent.

    Thanks again guys!!

  • by PLKids,

    PLKids PLKids Oct 5, 2016 10:34 AM in response to Thomas Schaller
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    Oct 5, 2016 10:34 AM in response to Thomas Schaller

    Glad to hear it's working! Remember to keep frequent backups. Just yesterday I had another OS I was running accidentally replace my disk and went to internet recovery. Glad I made backups. Good luck with the new drive!

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