OMG! - Most of my Mac Applications are not responding

[xDeathReaperx]

Programs such as iTunes, EyeTV, Skype, PhotoBooth, etc just RANDOMLY stop responding. I always have to restart my Mac to get them to respond again. The programs work fine on a guest account.

This is my first Mac and this is my only problem with it please help. I don't want to return it to Apple it's worked so great.

PLEASE HELP!

 

[cerote]

Try to repair permissions.


Go to Applications>Utilities>Disk Utility

Then select the drive that has OSX installed on. Click repair tab then verify permissions. If it finds a ton then click repair permissions.

 

[xDeathReaperx]

Try to repair permissions.


Go to Applications>Utilities>Disk Utility

Then select the drive that has OSX installed on. Click repair tab then verify permissions. If it finds a ton then click repair permissions.

This won't delete anything off my HDD will it? Please say no because im in the proccess of doing it now.

 

[chrono1081]

No it wont.

 

[munkery]

This won't delete anything off my HDD will it? Please say no because im in the proccess of doing it now.

It won't delete anything.

 

[chrono1081]

Woah, just for ***** and giggles I checked my permissions and got this : /


Hopefully repair mode on mac doesn't delete things like repair mode on Windows does....At least I have a really good back up scheme.

 

[cerote]

That's verify disk. He needs to run verify permissions. But man that is a lot of red. I have not had a bad disk though so not sure if it deletes anything or just moves stuff around.

 

[Mackilroy]

Yeah you'd be fine running Verify Disk.

 

[chrono1081]

FYI repair disk does not delete things. I just did it to mine.

EDIT: To clear up confusion repair disk was not part of the OP's question. His was repair permissions which will not delete things.

I kind of hijacked the thread with my verify disk post (sorry OP but I posted it incase your situation reached the level mine was at). I just wanted to let whoever know that repair disk does not delete info. (The repair disk that you have to use your OS disk -> Utilities for).

 

[roadbloc]

Are people really suggesting that repairing permissions is going to delete things?

 

[cerote]

No he was asking about verify disk. And nobody was suggesting it was. He asked if it did and we had no answer.

 

[munkery]

In terminal try the following:

cd ~/Library/Preferences
plutil -s *.plist

and/or

cd /Library/Preferences
sudo plutil -s *.plist

This will verify your preferences. See if the plist for the affected apps are corrupted.