[OT] Mac Beach Ball Party (or welcome to hell, here's your mac)

[Bob Sneidar]

Are you using USB? Is it on a USB bus with other drives that may be in use? That would suck up the already limited bandwidth on a USB chain. Firewire 800 seems to take a couple hours or less for most of my migrations. 

Bob


On May 14, 2012, at 11:29 AM, stephen barncard wrote:

> my statements may have appeared contradictory in the previous message.
> 
> 1. I did a apple store* Lion 10.7.4* "on top of" a previous installation on
> Saturday. 9 hours
> 2. I did a fresh 10.7.4 re-install on Sunday. 18 hours
> 
> re-written:
> 
> summary of my 'lost weekend':
> 
> 1.   Installing apple store* Lion 10.7.4* "on top of" a previous
> installation worked better, but still took over 4 minutes to completely
> boot up. Some applications will still seem sluggish when starting up. No
> beachball though. It took about 9 hours to install. Most disturbing on this
> install is the progress indicator, telling me 36 hours at first, but later
> settling into alternating between 24 and 12. In other words, progress
> indicators don't mean squat.
> 
> 2.  I finally did a fresh 10.7.4 re-install on Sunday.
> A 'fresh' install of 10.7.4 with migrated files will take less than a
> minute to completely boot up. Things seem pretty normal now. It took 18
> hours for this latest apple store version to install and move all the files
> (via migration assistant).   I can imagine it would take a couple of days
> if I had a filled 1TB disk and tried to do this.
> 
> 3. A 'fresh' install of 10.7.4 without migrating my thousands of documents
> and hundreds of applications is blindingly fast and boots faster than the
> above.
> 
> other settings that may help avoid Mr. Beachball and delays:
> 
> Turn off the 'size' checkbox and 'show icon preview' in folder prefs, then
> click "use as defaults"
> 
> Stephen Barncard
> San Francisco Ca. USA
> 
> more about sqb  <http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar>
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