os x problems

MuGeN

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my os x is starting to play up in a few ways, the most annoying of which is when applications crash...

e.g. iTunes just crashed on me ( but to be fair, i did drag a song to a playlist :rolleyes: - this is how its become, always stupid stuff) so ok, **** happens...

but... the dock icon is still showing as active, there is no process running for it in Activity Monitor and when i right click on the dock icon the option is there to force quit but alas, it doesn't.

this happens to me with a few apps and i end up restarting which is really crap... this is pretty much a fresh install too as similar instabilities were arising before.

I think it is highly likely that some software that i have on here is the root of the issue, although which piece of software? god knows...

anyone else experienced something like this?
 
I haven't experienced this so no direct advice. One thing I would suggest though is doing an archive and install? You'll keep all your settings etc. it'll just reinstall the OS to a cleaner state.

Also, another thing worth trying, is setting up another account and logging in with that. See if you get issues with that account? If you don't, then you know it's profile specific.
 
Wow somethings seriously messed for it to do that.

Archive and re-install tbh, easiest way to get back to a working state with minimum hassle.

None of my machines has ever required drastic action like that!
 
hmmmmmmmmmm

you know what i actually thing i just discovered the problem... by macbooks spends most of its life plugged into an external monitor, external hdds etc...

I wanted to unplug it all as i'm off our in a bit, and as usual i ejected the HDDs (one for storage, another for time machine) and upon ejecting the time machine one, it all frozed... waited a bit... nothing happened so i unplugged the firewire cable and as soon as i did itunes and lightroom (which were currently in the nackered state as above, unquittable) just shut down straight away...

I think this problem is related to the ext HDD... any thoughts?
 
You could be on to something. My old 2.2Ghz white macbook used to do that with one of my external drives. Not everytime, just now and again.

It appeared to be an issue with when the external drive span down into powersave. If I ejected then it would just 'stop' the whole machine.

If I accessed the drive first and span it up, and then ejected, it was mostly ok.

Try a permissions verify and repair on the external drive - pretty easy to do and worth a try.
 
Sounds like the HDD was in use when you ejected it.

Try a "repair permissions" in Disk Utility.
 
MuGeN said:
hmmmmmmmmmm

you know what i actually thing i just discovered the problem... by macbooks spends most of its life plugged into an external monitor, external hdds etc...

I wanted to unplug it all as i'm off our in a bit, and as usual i ejected the HDDs (one for storage, another for time machine) and upon ejecting the time machine one, it all frozed... waited a bit... nothing happened so i unplugged the firewire cable and as soon as i did itunes and lightroom (which were currently in the nackered state as above, unquittable) just shut down straight away...

I think this problem is related to the ext HDD... any thoughts?
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Have you installed applications on the external HDD?

Also have you first aid verified the discs with the Disk Utility?
 
It truly sounds like you ripping out the FireWire cable was the cause as the system was probably still using them (as you said it closed the apps reliant on the external HDD to shut down instantly)

Finder could have been indexing the external disk / Time Machine could have been backing up.

You can turn off indexing for external HDDs, have a gander on Google.

I'd perform a disk permissions repair on the disk and verify that it's not dying as NickK said above.
 
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