mds is using 4.7GB of real & 6.7GB of virtual memory and using ~ 15% of CPU. The Spotlight icon does not indicate that it's indexing. I have added multiple folders and drives to the Privacy tab in Spotlight prefs. I disabled Alfred & Hazel and that didn't change anything.
Info:Mac Pro Xeon 2.93, Mac OS X (10.7)
I have a Mac Pro with several raid array and single drives attached (1x Wiebetech RTX600 Raid 5 through SCSI; 1x CalDigit HDElement Raid 5 through miniSAS; 4x internal drives).Unfortunately, due to various reasons (electricity outtage and software crashes), I'm experiencing system crashes and need to hard re-start the system. Upon restart, I am able to boot back into Mac OS X, but sometimes one, or both of the raid arrays will not mount.However, after a period of 0.5 - 2 hours, the array would magically re-appear again. Sometimes this might even happen to internal drives that I had mounted inside the chassis of the Mac Pro.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am wondering if anyone knows of a good osx based alternative to Process Explorer on windows - what I'd like to be able to do is graph CPU and memory for a specific process and ideally see what network connections a specific process has open. atMonitor seems to do this pretty well generally, but not for specific processes (this is for monitoring a multiplayer flash game).
View 3 Replies View RelatedI wanted to do a clean install of Lion and change the name of my disc so I booted in Recovery Mode and erased my disc. When I install lion, it goes through everything and I wait the full 2 hours or so for it to download and install but right at the very end it says an error occurred while installing the mac os x and then I get the rainbow pinwheel and am required to shut down my mac by holding the power button. I am currently booted from an external hard drive as this is my only connection to the internet. I really want to get Lion to work on my internal drive. I just partitioned out my internal into 2 partitions (I read something about that?) and I'm going to give the install another go.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I upgraded to Lion this past fall and haven't had problems until recently, but now Lion freezes everytime I try to save a file in CS5.5. Is anyone else having this problem or has found a way to resolve it? Do I need to reinstall Snow Leopard?
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
I have a Lyon Server and I see on the system log every 10 seconds a crash of a process I cannot (yet) identify.I would like to upload a log but I do not see any upload possibility - so I pasted this here below. Furthermore the computer does not witch into the sleep mode.. [code]
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), Server on a 3.33 GHz 6-core Xeon
I have followed the appropiate steps to transfer data from a PC to my iMac (with Migration Assistant). The transfer has been going on for 2 days now and I'm getting frustrated with the long wait. I think I must have asked to transfer too much data but when I try to cancel the transfer, I get a message saying that it is not recommended to terminate the process. What happens if I cancel the transfer now, despite the recommendation not to? Will either or both my computers suffer irreparable damage? Will I loose the data in my PC? Will I not be able to try again?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
I just got my iMac today and started the migration process, and I'm wondering how you do this safely. I decided that I would rather do this process overnight so I can start using my Mac right now.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
On a new (June 2012) MacBook Pro running OSX 10.7.4 I am seeing a process called "unzip" in the Activity Monitor. It pops about every 5 seconds and is using anywhere from 5%-35% of the CPU and then goes away, then comes right back.I am having some system performance issues and I am wondering if this is the culprit.
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
The CPU process has snowballed to the point that selecting a finder window is unreasonable . Safari is slow to absurdity , after emptying caches . Firefox & Camino are usable , so wildly better . I have rebooted , rebooted fsck - fy , rebooted CMD r , executed permission and file checks , repairs with no stated repairs or issues
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Mac Mini, Mac OS X (10.7), Circa 2010
why does control-R do NOTHING on either of my Mac Lions? is it a defective initaial install? Or because I installed it from the internet?
Is there a way I can "see" the recovery partition they make reference to??
How do I control when an external h/d comes on and off?
View 5 Replies View RelatedThe track pad seems to have a mind of its own after Lion installation. Seems to copy everything it crosses over. Is there a way to have it behave like it did in the Snow Leopard?
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
My favorite feature on the mac has always been the ability to see all open windows with a simple click (F3 on my keyboard). I often have multiple word documents and multiple pdf files open, as well as two or three different browser windows, several image files, and who knows what else. It is very common for me to have 10-20 open windows and it was always a huge help to be able to see them all at once, with filenames that would pop up when hovering with the mouse. This feature made it incredibly easy to move from file to file and truly see everything on the desktop at once.Â
As far as I can tell, this is no longer possible with Lion and Mission Control. Now if I have multiple windows open in a single application and enter Mission Control I see them tiled over one another, without filenames displayed for any. Sure, I can see all the applications I have open, but what good is that if I can't see which files I have? It's making it very difficult to work effectively-- basically I have to minimize each window one by one until I find the one I want.Â
Can anyone using Lion tell me how to see a graphic representation of ALL open windows, with filenames? Like I could in the good old days? Or is there something like a "see all open files" ability in Finder?Â
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iMac (27-inch Late 2009), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Using Lion, latest and fully updated. At some point in the past week or so the volume control stopped having an effect. Using either the keyboard function keys or the item in the task bar, the graphics look good and the blocks/slider move around just fine, but there is no effect whatsoever on sound output. I can control the volume in whatever app I'm using, whether it's a Web app or local app with its own volume control. But the system volume controls no longer have an effect. This is true whether or not I'm using the display output or headphones.
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Mac Pro (Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.2), 8-core Xeon, 16G ECC RAM, 0+1 RAID
Having lost track of how I manage access to stored passwords, I'd like to reset every password stored in my Login Keychain, so that it will always 'Confirm before allowing access" and "Ask for Keychain Password."Â
Is there anyway to do this in a batch, or must I view/edit each item, one by one.Â
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Mac OS X (10.7.3)
how to control the startup applications?Â
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am having fun with my iMac (late 2011 + 10.7.3) aspecially with software bugs.One of them is following:Volume controll keys on my wireless keyboard do not controll sound. Doesn,t matter which one I press I do see the icons on the display but there is no effect on volume level. The sound "speaker icon" on the system bar is inactive and when I press it I see that slider is frozen at the very bottom and can't be moved.Switch your iMac off.Remove batteries from the wireless keyboard.Switch your Mac on.Sound is back, and after placing batteries back in your keyboard you can see also that sound keys are working again. Unfortunatelly you have to make this operation each time when you switching your iMac off.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
What worked for me to fix mission control lagging (after upgrading from SL) was to run the xbench graphics test a few times. That's it. It worked perfectly!Â
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
since a few weeks, we regularly experience that the sound volume control does not show up in the screen title bar, and we cannot play music in iTunes or in youtube. I don't know if this is since i attached a usb Time machine backup disk or since when i upgraded from 10.7.2 to 10.7.3 The only way out is rebooting and then this works again, The sound volume control is back and i can listen music.Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2), Keep mail on server for 1 year
There's one thing I'm really missing from Snow Leopard in recent months which has been replaced by what I regard as Lion's inferior 'Mission Control'. How many times would you sit down, open up 20 or so Photoshop files and toggle between the F9 and F10 keys to present all 20 pictures instantly on the desktop using Expose. Mission Control doesn't perform nearly as well doing the same task.Â
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iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
How do we change the background on the mission control screen? I don't want to download some wackadoo program. Apple is a visual company, and they know we would want to do this. There must be a way....
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I open Mission Control up, have a few desktops and full-screen apps open. However, when I hover my cursor over a thumbnail, no 'X' appears. How do I close a thumbnail in Mission Control?
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I can't final close Safari with control Q. It just open next time on the closed page.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
So I was following some tutorials online about assigning desktops to shortcut keys, and I created 10 total desktops just so I can assign/play around with the keys. However, I cannot for the life of me figure out why I can't assign a shortcut to desktops 2, 3 and 4. I tried different key combinations and it does not work. I know that control + 5 works for desktop 5, so assigned that key command (temporarily, and I made sure that desktop 5 shortcut was different by changing it to shift+command+5) to desktops 2 3 & 4 and it still doesn't switch. Something is preventing these desktops from linking to a shortcut. Not even control+left arrow/right arrow works.Â
I also tried removing and re-adding the desktops with no success.Â
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
I was wondering where I can go to control which programs open when LION starts up. At rge moment my calander alerts and address book open up but I would like to keep them from doing this.
Info:MacPro 2.66, Mac OS X (10.6.7), GB ram.. iLife 08 /Aperture / CS 5
I recently upgraded my iMac from Leopard to Lion.Â
At times, and this has been happening quite frequently, my screen automatically jumps to Mission Control mode. Sometimes, it comes back to Desktop mode by itself but at other times I have to click on the window to get back to Desktop mode. Its almost like the OS is playing games with me.Â
Just to clarify, I am not invoking the Mission Control program by either using the keyboard, mouse or from the Dock. The OS automatically switches to Mission Control mode.Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I dont wont to have the dock in my workspace. Can I move the dock to mission control an launch apps from there?
Info:Mac OS X (10.7.3)
How do I get an app to stick in a desktop. I have the mission control desktop and then desktops 1 through 7. I have them all opening up various applicaitons, but even though I move the app to the desktop I want, and I shut down with the app open in that desktop, on restart it opens up in the wrong desktop...always the same one, but always the wrong one. iTunes - I put it in Desktop 7, its there when I shut down. It always opens up in Desktop 1. I don't have trouble with calendar, mail, addressbook. Also, sometimes 'finder' folders that I have left open in a specific window when I shut down do not open up on restart. They do sometimes, but most of the time not.Â
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Mac Book Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)
I meet a problem in using Mission Control and Launchpad. My system is Mac OS X 10.7.3, and my laptop is MacBook Pro mid in 2010 15". When I open it, use Misson Control it will display like this: Could not add space and no dashboard on the top of the screen. I really don't know the reason why. But if I sign off my account, the mission control will be normal again. And when Mission Control has this problem. The launchpad isn't also normal. Launchpad's background will be transparent. But this problem will come again after some times of restart. It randomly appears.Â
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
