I did a suggested software download/update a few days ago.
Now I am experiencing application freezes - mouse functions do not work, system does not acknowledge commands, etc.
Might last for a minute or more, then it tries to catch up Even in mail, internet, other apps
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iMac 10,1, Mac OS X (10.6.2), None
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Since the recent software update (early Feb I believe) my Mac has begun to freeze, first finder, then safari/chrome, followed by all other applications.
I have set up Activity Monitor to track what is causing the issue, however when the computer freezes I cannot open Activity Monitor (obviously).
I have contacted Apple Care with the hope that they could provide some assistance, we deleted all startup files (and the other startup related files in library), ran disk utility and repaired permissions.
We noticed that spotlight was using a lot of the CPU, and I removed my external time machine harddrive (as it appeared that it was damaged).
The freezing still occured, so I reinstalled Lion. The computer appeared to be working again... until it began to freeze again.
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iMac (27-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.3), 16g ram, 2tb harddrive.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4), Safari 5.1.7
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), Late 2011 21.5"
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Why does my mouse randomly skip or freeze?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.6)
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iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
iMac 27 late 2009 freeze while is working. Nothing works on computer even when a video is playing. I have a 12 GB of RAM and 502 GB free disk space. I checked disk utility and CPU is working fine. I don't know why the iMac is freezing with so much space.
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iMac (27-inch Late 2009), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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iMac (20-inch Mid 2007), Mac OS X (10.6.8), HP probs
I bought an iMac about 2 weeks ago and when accessing files from external hard drives I will get the spinning beach ball and all of the programs will become unresponsive and the only way to relieve the problem is to power down the computer. We have two 3 TB Seagate HDs connected via USB.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
When rebooting after a crash, computer boot cycle only makes it half-way across the screen. how do you recover from this?
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iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
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iMac (20-inch Late 2006), Mac OS X (10.6.8), hard drive replaced 6 months ago.
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IMac 27" 3,4 Ghz Intel Core i7
16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 RAM
1 TB HD
AMD Radeon HD 6970M 2048 MB graphics
Windows 7 (full updated)
OSX Lion (full updated)
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