[OT] Strange OSX Problems

[J. Landman Gay]

On 7/9/13 10:00 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
> Gone away from the time machine theory.  The disk checked out OK and even
> if I switch Time Machine off, the problem still occurs.
>
> Strangely though, Disk  Utility reports no problems on  my main hard drive.
>   Seems like it should have come up with something if the disk was going bad.
>
> The problem has worsened to the point where, once it occurs, everything
> works extremely slowly, applications won't fully quit, and if I shut the
> computer down from the Apple Menu, I end up on the login screen and have to
> shutdown from there or even physically power off.
>
> The death of a drive is never pleasant - I'll probably scatter its ashes
> over the rose garden.

I wouldn't wait much longer. If the drive is that bad, I wouldn't trust 
that the backups are being copied correctly. The backup drive is 
working, but who knows what data it's storing.

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