[OT] Looking For OS X Troubleshooting Suggestions

[Heather Nagey]

Scott,

Until recently I was working on a Mac Mini with a very similar setup and very similar issues. I managed to give it a new lease of life for a while, by backing up pretty much all my files elsewhere and then deleting them from the mini - clean desktop, clean downloads, clean documents… I also ran a utility that went through application files and folders deleting unnecessary fat like instructions in chinese or svengali, which lets face it I hardly ever need. She came back to life, more or less. However, she was still struggling, basically, with modern life. New applications were overwhelming her. I came to the conclusion that essentially she was tired, and it was time for a nice shiny new laptop. Problem solved.

Regards,

Heather

On 13 Sep 2012, at 07:21, Scott Rossi wrote:

> I did just now.  If you're a conspiracy theorist, these lines, which appear
> dozens of times, are pretty good:
> 
> 9/12/12 10:51:46 PM    MasterControlProgram connection attempt made.
> 9/12/12 10:52:25 PM    MasterControlProgram ** WE ARE __NOT__ CONNECTED **
> 
> I was concerned for a moment until I realized this is from my online backup
> application.  At least, I think it is.
> 
> Nothing else immediate that I can see, but there's a ton of stuff in there.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, UX Design
> 
> 
> Recently, Phil Jimmieson wrote:
> 
>> Have you looked into the console logs to see if anything interesting shows up?
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
>> On 13 Sep 2012, at 06:07, Scott Rossi <scott at tactilemedia.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> The Spotlight processes that I read about are mds and mdworker.  I haven't
>>> changed anything significant lately (that I think is significant) but the
>>> system might think otherwise.  I just don't know what else to look for.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Scott Rossi
>>> Creative Director
>>> Tactile Media, UX Design
>>> 
>>> On Sep 12, 2012, at 9:53 PM, Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Scott Rossi <scott at tactilemedia.com>wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> The one thing I found online is that the Spotlight
>>>>> indexing process can sometimes go crazy and intermittently bog down the
>>>>> processor -- Onyx supposedly allows you to disable this but I'm not certain
>>>>> this is the problem (not a regular culprit in Activity Monitor).
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> What are you looking for in Activity Monitor? mdworker not Spotlight is
>>>> what you are looking for. Also, you can see the pulsating dot in the
>>>> Spotlight magnifying glass.
>>>> 
>>>> Have you changed anything recently? New HD, new External HD, new
>>>> TimeMachine HD or TimeCapsule.
>>>> 
>>>> I have TimeMachine and Carbon Copy Cloner backups and if they ever run
>>>> simultaneously then things can bog down, so I'll pause one.
>>>> 
>>>> Other than that the worst I've ever had is Spotlight indexing, and it's
>>>> just as you describe.
>>>> 
>>>> Good luck.
> 
> 
> 
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