Hey Guys, i'm in need of some advice 
So, as the title states, I have been having some major Time Machine issues and intermittent freezing on my Late 2008 (unibody) MacBook Pro (15", 2.53Ghz, 8GB RAM).
I'm pretty sure all of these issues occurred after updating to 10.8.5.
Firstly, the Time Machine thing:
I'm using a WD MyBook Studio II and have had it for around 3 years with no problems (connected over Firewire 800).
Since the last update it won't back up - it will fail/unmount the drive mid way/move at a snails' pace (e.g. 20-30kb a minute).
I read posts on various sites of people experiencing similar problems - I followed all the instructions (reset NVRAM/PRAM, disable Spotlight on External Drive, rebuild spotlight, repair disk permissions) and eventaully formatted the drive. It is now backing up but still very slow (about 1MB in the last 10 mins) - it is doing a deep traversal but it's saying 1,187 days remaining and quite frankly, the machine will probably be dead by then!
Secondly, Intermittent Freezing
This issue either occurred after the 10.8.5 update or after updating to 1Password 4. The machine will occasionally freeze... no spinning wheel, no weird screen glitches, just literally hangs for a second or two and then continues like nothing happened. It seems to be worse in certain apps (Adobe Photoshop CS6, iTunes, Adobe Illustrator CC and Mail).
I have disabled 1 password from running in the task bar and it seems to happen less frequently, though it still happens on occasion. Page outs are at 0, no S.M.A.R.T warnings from the HD so not really sure what else it could be
Any advice would be greatly appreciated
So, as the title states, I have been having some major Time Machine issues and intermittent freezing on my Late 2008 (unibody) MacBook Pro (15", 2.53Ghz, 8GB RAM).
I'm pretty sure all of these issues occurred after updating to 10.8.5.
Firstly, the Time Machine thing:
I'm using a WD MyBook Studio II and have had it for around 3 years with no problems (connected over Firewire 800).
Since the last update it won't back up - it will fail/unmount the drive mid way/move at a snails' pace (e.g. 20-30kb a minute).
I read posts on various sites of people experiencing similar problems - I followed all the instructions (reset NVRAM/PRAM, disable Spotlight on External Drive, rebuild spotlight, repair disk permissions) and eventaully formatted the drive. It is now backing up but still very slow (about 1MB in the last 10 mins) - it is doing a deep traversal but it's saying 1,187 days remaining and quite frankly, the machine will probably be dead by then!
Secondly, Intermittent Freezing
This issue either occurred after the 10.8.5 update or after updating to 1Password 4. The machine will occasionally freeze... no spinning wheel, no weird screen glitches, just literally hangs for a second or two and then continues like nothing happened. It seems to be worse in certain apps (Adobe Photoshop CS6, iTunes, Adobe Illustrator CC and Mail).
I have disabled 1 password from running in the task bar and it seems to happen less frequently, though it still happens on occasion. Page outs are at 0, no S.M.A.R.T warnings from the HD so not really sure what else it could be
Any advice would be greatly appreciated
