Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/10/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]recent OSX.10 will start from a special restore partician if you runrepair disck ric > On Oct 8, 2015, at 10:32 AM, Leo Wesson <leowesson at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Nathan, > > Sounds like a software thing. I would go back to a blank disc and install > software one at a time to see if one of your programs is causing the > problem. > > Leo Wesson > leowesson.com > >> On Oct 8, 2015, at 01:16, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: >> >> My 7-year iMac started acting up back in April: it became very sluggish >> and finally refused to boot up. I managed to boot it from an external >> disk and back up my mail and other stuff (my pictures all reside on >> external drives, so no danger there). I then took the computer to the >> Apple Store and had them look at it. The verdict was that there was >> nothing physically wrong with the internal HD, so they just wiped the >> disk clean and re-installed the OSX and all was well?until this week, >> when it started showing the same symptoms again. It still boots up but is >> extremely sluggish, to the point of being useless. Disk Utility reports >> no problems but obviously something is wrong. I recently upgraded to El >> Capitan but I do not think this is the cause because it was beginning to >> show the symptoms already before the upgrade. Before I take it back to >> the store for a hard disk replacement, does anyone have any idea of what >> else can cause such behavior? >> >> I have my new Macbook Air, and all my stuff is backed up etc. But I want >> the nice big screen of my iMac back, and I do not feel like buying a new >> computer at this point. >> >> TIA for any ideas, >> Nathan >> >> Nathan Wajsman >> Alicante, Spain >> http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> >> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu >> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws >> <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ >> <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> >> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator >> <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> >> YNWA >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information