Comments on: You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone

By: Dubber

Dubber — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:31:38 +0000

Yep. Do this:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1627

By: David Hawkins

David Hawkins — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:27:04 +0000

I have the same problem on two Macs, an Imac and a Macbook Air, both machines the addressbooksync slows the machine s down to a crawl. But I never had missing sync on the Macbook Air. It is strange that both started with problem at the same time. Have you any clues?
Regards
Dave

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:44:05 +0000

I had a similar experience with 99% CPU twice recently (but fortunately easier to track down). MS Word was using a lot of CPU suddenly… it turned out to be because I was working on improving a translation from Italian to English. The grammar checker was working overtime because the rough translation had so much incorrect grammar in it, and it was literally making the Mac run hot. Once I fixed up the grammar, the CPU usage went down! (Turning off grammar checking also fixed it).

I’ve also been travelling, and got a new Mac just before leaving. It was supposed to have really good battery life, but was barely lasting 3 hours. Turns out that my virus checker was using 99% CPU trying to update the files, but my university had it configured so that it wouldn’t work when off campus. Brilliant… regular virus updates, unless you’re in a foreign country :-)

We used to joke that a computer would be running hot if it had a lot of computation to do, but these days if the fan comes on, you really know that something’s up!

By: Dubber

Dubber — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:29:04 +0000

Aaaaghhh! I spoke too soon!

It’s back. It stayed dormant for a good 12 hours… but it’s back with a vengeance. It’s the Japanese Knotweed of computer issues. Still – I have a taste for the good life, computing wise, and I’m on a mission to make it properly completely dead.

So – my apologies to Missing Sync. That wasn’t the problem, and I was hasty to hold it responsible. The hunt continues…