Okay the last 24 hours I have been having major problems with my July 2009 13" MBP (4gb ram / 500gb hdd)
It's been barely usable just getting the spinning beach ball of death for a min or so then it will work again for a few mins then dies again, it won't even open most applications, I thought it was a hardware problem to tried taking out each RAM stick, didn't work, really starting to tear my hair out thought maybe it was a HDD problem. as it took an age just to even boot.
Then today I booted into safe mode and all is well, it's running as normal in safe mode... So I'm thinking it's maybe a software problem, but I have no software login items as I took everything off already.
So it must be something that runs in normal mode but not safe mode that's doing it,
Is there anyway I can find out what it is?
I was thinking of formatting then restoring from my time machine backup but I'm guessing that will restore all the applications too? Plus it's a major faff reinstalling all my software than plugins for software etc,
Was wondering if anyone had any idea,
Thanks,
Tom
It's been barely usable just getting the spinning beach ball of death for a min or so then it will work again for a few mins then dies again, it won't even open most applications, I thought it was a hardware problem to tried taking out each RAM stick, didn't work, really starting to tear my hair out thought maybe it was a HDD problem. as it took an age just to even boot.
Then today I booted into safe mode and all is well, it's running as normal in safe mode... So I'm thinking it's maybe a software problem, but I have no software login items as I took everything off already.
So it must be something that runs in normal mode but not safe mode that's doing it,
Is there anyway I can find out what it is?
I was thinking of formatting then restoring from my time machine backup but I'm guessing that will restore all the applications too? Plus it's a major faff reinstalling all my software than plugins for software etc,
Was wondering if anyone had any idea,
Thanks,
Tom