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atlfokus

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Hi, I am new to this forum, but I have been a mac user for the last ten years with plenty of knowledge about macs, hopefully. Recently I opened up my MBP Core1, and all of a sudden it was acting up. Every command that I want processed, i.e. clicking anything, opening folders, anything, the system lags about ten to 15 seconds or longer hitting me hard with the beach ball every time. I have all the recent updates installed, probably the last program I installed was CS3 which I doubt would have any effect on the systems performance. It feels like the processor is just chunking up really badly and I'm not sure what to do about it. It is very hard to troubleshoot when the system runs like this because I cant really do anything. I can boot up the windows partition no problem, so I am really getting confused here. Anyone else had or heard of a problem like this, please let me know and help me out. Thanks in advance ofr any support.

..pCe..
 
true, it is the beta cs3 but I'm not saying that cs3 is running slow, its my whole system, and its pissin me off!
 
Right, but beta software can do that. Uninstall CS3 and I'll bet you things will improve.

Also repair permissions before you do that:
apps/utilities/disk utility/repair permissions
 
nah, it's not CS3 - no one program on OS X can bring down the system like that, and by the sounds of things, it's slow when CS3 isn't even active.

let the troubleshooting begin!

atifokus, when the system is being sluggish, in finder, open Activity Monitor (it's in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder). here you can see all the active processes, and you can sort by load type. sorting by either Real Memory or CPU, is there anything taking up more than 50%?
 
Lt Major Burns said:
nah, it's not CS3 - no one program on OS X can bring down the system like that, and by the sounds of things, it's slow when CS3 isn't even active.
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A beta app can create unforseen issues; even system wide issues. As I suggested, repair permissions and also check activity monitor per Lt. Burns. Also turn off your font software when CS3 is running to make sure it's not that. I find font apps (and corrupt fonts in particular) can cause nagging slowdowns and crashes.
 
since fonts _can_ have this very effect and ps cs3 _was_ installed late in the process before the problems appearing, i'd check that as well. i'd also create a test user account on the machine to see whether if only logged in to a clean new user account the problem persists.
 
And, figure in that it's an Adobe product, with some whacky phone home updater/registration checker dealie that never really was very smart in it's non-beta installation, but is likely to be even dumber in beta...
 
thanks for all the replies guys, sorry I have been out of town and away from online services, so dont think i'm just bumping an old thread. Im gonna take a look at the activity monitors and uninstall cs3, we'll see how it works. thanks again.

..pCe..
 
HAHA! So I went in to start troubleshooting and it works fine! I didn't do anything. Oh well, its nice I just hope it doesnt happen again. thanks for the help.


..pCe..
 
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