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

[Keith Clarke]

My main Mac (i7 8Gb Mac Book Pro) is now on Lion. It gets left on - as I can rely on many apps and printing problems causing system-wide crashes that force regular reboots! :-(

I use Ice Clean to do regular routine maintenance http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/23860/iceclean

Lion seems to have more need of regular disk permissions clean-ups than SL and it gets very flakey, very quickly with limited disk space - as in <15% of a 500Gb drive! 
Best,
Keith..

On 11 May 2012, at 20:00, stephen barncard wrote:

> Dear list,
> 
> Could I get a recommendation from some of the Mac folks on this list about
> a good 'Cleaner' application?
> 
> The last week or so, I've gained a rather persistent 'friend' - the dreaded
> beach ball of death.  All the time. Type a few letters in a browser (Safari
> or Chrome) and then a delay, then the ball for about 30 seconds.
> 
> My lovely Mac pro is in hell.   Yes I have a lot of apps, and yes I am
> running Lion.
> And that doesn't help either as it insists on loading every app and
> document I had running the last time*.
> *
> *
> I am probably facing a complete re-install at this point. I had other plans
> this day. Dreams of Snow Leopard abound. I just wanted to use the Cloud to
> sync calendars and address book stuff.
> 
> Anyway, I'd like to try a 'cleaner' first, but I don't know anyone that's
> actually used one.
> And it's , um, a kind of a serious app type that could ruin your life if it
> screws up.
> 
> the one that's promoted the most is Mac Keeper.
> 
> I downloaded it, and executed first run, but did not tell it to do
> anything. I got paranoid after I read some negative about it on the web,
> and it took an hour to uninstall it, as it has no uninstaller that actualy
> works.
> 
> here's the complete list of others that I've downloaded but not executed:
> 
> Mac Keeper               - the best UI - looks like it could work - about
> $35
> AppCleaner.app         - took an hour to do its survey and didn't warn me
> if it was a paid app or not, so I quit
> CleanMyMac.app       - not tested
> OnyX.app                  - the only free one - ran it but didn't help
> SpeedUpMac.app      -- not tested
> 
> Anyone have a recommendation?
> 
> thanks in advance,
> 
> 
> sqb
> 
> **(What bright pup at Apple thought that was a cool idea?I'd like to
> strangle that person. Yes I know there's a checkbox at shutdown, but I
> don't ever want that feature, and I always forget. And if I have to
> force-quit from a Kernel panic I get all the docs and apps reloaded that I
> was running hours ago. Stupid stupid stupid.)*
> *
> *
> 
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> -- 
> 
> 
> 
> Stephen Barncard
> San Francisco Ca. USA
> 
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