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Wow. Thanks for the story. Any more insight into how you used the console
to trace the problem to the disk i/o error? Sounds intriguing.

--Allen


On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Robert W. Walker <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
wrote:

> About three weeks ago I went through a major day-and-a-half battle to
> get a Mac Pro 5,1 on OS 10.9.2 to behave. I was getting bizarre Finder
> crashes, infinite beachballs when trying to import any element at all
> into AE, even Disk Utility freezing up.  I did a major update to my
> backups, did a clean install of Mavericks and reinstalled all apps and
> plugins one by one.  That took most of a day.
>
> However the machine was still intermittently unusable, even to the point
> of refusing to Shut Down properly.  Next thought was "bad RAM."  I
> started removing and swapping RAM sticks until I narrowed it down to the
> one that seemed to be the culprit. Bam. Looking good again.
>
> Until today when the problem recurred. Long story short, through Console
> I traced the problem to a disk i/o error on an external Firewire drive.
> Console is pretty great. I took the drive off-line and everything was
> back to normal.
>
> Huh. Machines.
>
> I learned that many symptoms can be caused by many things, not always
> the most "logical" or the first thing that comes to mind.
>
> Robert W. Walker
> Los Angeles CA USA
>
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<div dir=3D"ltr">Wow. Thanks for the story. Any more insight into how you u=
sed the console to trace the problem to the disk i/o error? Sounds intrigui=
ng.</div><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br clear=3D"all"><div>--Allen</div>
<br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Robert W=
. Walker <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:AE-List@media-motion.tv" t=
arget=3D"_blank">AE-List@media-motion.tv</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquo=
te class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc so=
lid;padding-left:1ex">

About three weeks ago I went through a major day-and-a-half battle to<br>
get a Mac Pro 5,1 on OS 10.9.2 to behave. I was getting bizarre Finder<br>
crashes, infinite beachballs when trying to import any element at all<br>
into AE, even Disk Utility freezing up. =C2=A0I did a major update to my<br=
>
backups, did a clean install of Mavericks and reinstalled all apps and<br>
plugins one by one. =C2=A0That took most of a day.<br>
<br>
However the machine was still intermittently unusable, even to the point<br=
>
of refusing to Shut Down properly. =C2=A0Next thought was &quot;bad RAM.&qu=
ot; =C2=A0I<br>
started removing and swapping RAM sticks until I narrowed it down to the<br=
>
one that seemed to be the culprit. Bam. Looking good again.<br>
<br>
Until today when the problem recurred. Long story short, through Console<br=
>
I traced the problem to a disk i/o error on an external Firewire drive.<br>
Console is pretty great. I took the drive off-line and everything was<br>
back to normal.<br>
<br>
Huh. Machines.<br>
<br>
I learned that many symptoms can be caused by many things, not always<br>
the most &quot;logical&quot; or the first thing that comes to mind.<br>
<br>
Robert W. Walker<br>
Los Angeles CA USA<br>
<br>
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