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May 19, 2012

The fans of my mid-2010 quad core mac pro speed up to sound like jet engines. The machine can be running all day or for less than an hour. The number of applications in use range from 1 - 5. The activity monitor always shows the finder using the most resources. About this mac says all of the ram is good. The hardware test says all if fine. I have reset the machine by unplugging it for few minutes.

There is one thing that is problematic and I do not know if affects the fans - the permissions are not correct. When I run repair permissions it returns a large number of 'acl found but not expected' and frequently changes the permissions so only the system can 'read or write'. Then I have to manually change them to what I need.

Info:
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