Mac Experts-Diagnosis needed

**matthew blais** · 5-Sep-2007, 22:50

I learned Henry..the good thing (silver lining) is I finally put out the $$ for some externals..long overdue I know.

**JW Dewdney** · 6-Sep-2007, 01:12

Originally Posted by Brian Ellis

Not when the person posting the original message specifically asks that we not do so, or did you miss the last line of the original question here? You might also scroll up a ways and see Jack's message and mine. : - )

I was just making a general observation. It had nothing to do with this thread specifically. i.e. - I wasn't trying to 'insinuate' anything.

**JW Dewdney** · 6-Sep-2007, 01:19

Originally Posted by JW Dewdney

This should help... at least in terms of explaining the fragmentation issue.
http://www.itworld.com/Comp/3380/nls...929/index.html

In case anyone didn't quite 'get it' - this explains why UNIX file systems don't fall into a state where they don't NEED to be 'defragmented'. Mac OSX is Berkeley (BSD) UNIX.

**JohnnyV** · 6-Sep-2007, 08:29

Henry wrote> Get MacJanitor and Diskwarrior.

X2!

I use both and also I use AppleJack - a script that is run at startup. If you had that installed it might have helped...but with 95% disk space filled your Mac is a "dead man walking".

AppleJack:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19596

**matthew blais** · 20-Sep-2007, 09:59

Man oh man...after getting back up and running, there's been constant problems...

It boots up but something is always happening...the mouse (cursor) sometimes is not there, reboot...then there.
Other times the software (In Design) will just quit..several times doing a "save as" for the file. I reinstalled...It also happened with Photoshop a couple times, and there's been a few Kernel crashes.

Sometimes after sleep mode I don't get a screen at all...

Is it the processors/motherboard something besides software?

It's the same software I had running on it for a few years, with minor upgrades.

I've run disk utility every day since I revamped the HD and got back running.
So...I'm not looking to spend $$ on a new one if this is OS problem (10.3.3), but I'm not getting much done with all the re-starts.

So what's your opinion?

Thanks in advance,
Matt

**alanps** · 22-Sep-2007, 04:58

I am a big Mac user (work and leisure) I learned long back that when something goes seriously wrong, you take it to the Apple Store and get them to fix it.

Don't mean to be unhelpful but its better to pay them than try yourself. On a couple of occasions they have fixed for free - a couple of times over the years I have paid - and once they gave me the sad news that there was no hope.

I love Apple and would never go back to PC - but we are talking machinery and electronics here - things will break and burn out over time....

I now have the Apple care for my Mac's and this has proven to be a good investment..