So a couple of days ago I opened a diaglogue box in chrome and clicked on "My Desktop" this then froze the entire machine and the only way to get it come back was to reboot. When it came back finder would crash straight away upon logon saying "not responding"
I tried various bits and pieaces but in the end, gave up and restored from a time machine backup from a few days ago when everything was fine.
This was then initially fine, but now its started behaving the same way again. Itunes is completely trashed, and completely locks up the machine as soon as I try and launch it. The same with word. I've tried re-installing itunes but this hasn't helped. And now other apps start doing it like utorrent that were previously fine.
I've rebooted into safe mode, and used disk utility to repair disk and repair disk permissions. The repair disk did nothing and the repair permissions did find a load of stuff, but not files in the directories of the apps that are behaving this way.
Also, once the app does this, then causes finder to lock up as well. Relaunching finder won't work and the only way to get the machine back is to power it off and power it back on again.
Should I bother restoring from an even earlier time machine backup ? or is there something else fundamentally wrong here. Fior the first time in 4 years of mac ownership I'm now completely at a loss as to what to try next.
Help !
I tried various bits and pieaces but in the end, gave up and restored from a time machine backup from a few days ago when everything was fine.
This was then initially fine, but now its started behaving the same way again. Itunes is completely trashed, and completely locks up the machine as soon as I try and launch it. The same with word. I've tried re-installing itunes but this hasn't helped. And now other apps start doing it like utorrent that were previously fine.
I've rebooted into safe mode, and used disk utility to repair disk and repair disk permissions. The repair disk did nothing and the repair permissions did find a load of stuff, but not files in the directories of the apps that are behaving this way.
Also, once the app does this, then causes finder to lock up as well. Relaunching finder won't work and the only way to get the machine back is to power it off and power it back on again.
Should I bother restoring from an even earlier time machine backup ? or is there something else fundamentally wrong here. Fior the first time in 4 years of mac ownership I'm now completely at a loss as to what to try next.
Help !
