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- Sep 16, 2011
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- Motherboard
- Mac OS X 10.6.8
- CPU
- 3.09 GHz Intel Core i3 2100
- Graphics
- GIGABYTE Radeon HD 6670 1GB 128-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.1 x16
- Mac
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
To preface this, I've done a bunch of reading on the forums looking for a similar situation. Like a good hackintosher, I was taking exact notes of everything about my system in a file that I was going to upload and link to so people could see the log files from Console while this was happening, crash reports, etc. But I thought I would ask a quick question first, then go back to all-out prep if that doesn't work.
The general problem is that in many programs when I use the "save as" or "open with" function sometimes I get a beach ball hang. It happens in firefox, chrome, finder, et al, but not all of the time. It's not consistent. When I try to re-open these programs after force-quitting them, they won't re-open. Firefox says there's already a copy open. Chrome is silent. Finder says nothing because even an apple script I found online to open finder back up won't open it back up.
In disk utility I can see that one of the old HD's I stuck in there to backup my main drives via CCC is physically failing.
So my hypothesis is that anytime I access a part of OSX where it tries to read everything in finder, or tries to see all of my drives, it hits my failing one, something happens, and it hangs.
If I unmount, delete, or physically remove that drive (no big deal, since it's just full of clones of other drives), could that conceivably solve my problem?
If not, I will continue on the exhaustive route.
Advice / tips appreciated.
The general problem is that in many programs when I use the "save as" or "open with" function sometimes I get a beach ball hang. It happens in firefox, chrome, finder, et al, but not all of the time. It's not consistent. When I try to re-open these programs after force-quitting them, they won't re-open. Firefox says there's already a copy open. Chrome is silent. Finder says nothing because even an apple script I found online to open finder back up won't open it back up.
In disk utility I can see that one of the old HD's I stuck in there to backup my main drives via CCC is physically failing.
So my hypothesis is that anytime I access a part of OSX where it tries to read everything in finder, or tries to see all of my drives, it hits my failing one, something happens, and it hangs.
If I unmount, delete, or physically remove that drive (no big deal, since it's just full of clones of other drives), could that conceivably solve my problem?
If not, I will continue on the exhaustive route.
Advice / tips appreciated.
