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I need help with my macbook!

Jan 26, 2015 5:23AM PST

Nothing on my MacBook is responding! Things like skype, photo booth, etc don't work properly! When ever I try to save something in a program like audacity, flash, etc, my cursor turns to a spinning beach ball and I have to force quit. I already tried verifying disk permissions and that didn't work. Restarting doesn't work either. Please help give a solution to this! (I'm using OS X Yosemite)

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Ideas.
Jan 26, 2015 5:53AM PST

1. Try another user account.
2. How much disk space? A friend had forgot to empty the trash.

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Disk space
Jan 26, 2015 8:03AM PST

468GB of disk space

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So that's used or free space?
Jan 26, 2015 8:10AM PST

And how about item 1? How did that go?

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I can't
Jan 26, 2015 10:50AM PST

My current one was setup for me and I have no idea how to make another one.
I'm not familiar with apple

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Here's what I did to learn about making accounts.
Jan 26, 2015 11:15AM PST
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Free
Jan 26, 2015 11:39AM PST

Free space. And by the way, I noticed the programs work when I boot into safe mode. When I go into safe mode and back to normal mode, the programs work (temporarily). This method does not work anymore but why did it work before? The programs still work in safe mode but not normal mode. And I can't use my wacom tablet in safe boot. Why do the programs work in safe boot but not regular?

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That's easy.
Jan 26, 2015 11:45AM PST

Safe mode is noted at http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262 so it may not load extensions fro such things that could cause issues and prevent access to your computer.

How goes the other account testing?
Bob

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Didn't work
Jan 26, 2015 12:13PM PST

Making another account didn't help. Programs still don't respond

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When you are logged into the "new" account
Jan 26, 2015 10:20PM PST

go to the System Preferences > Users & Groups and click on the New account.
On the right side of the windows, click on the Login Items.

Write down the list of items you see there.

Now repeat the above by selecting your original account.

Post the two lists here

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Nothing
Jan 27, 2015 5:47AM PST

The new account does not have any login items.
The original only has iTunesHelper and Steam.

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Shut down the computer
Feb 4, 2015 12:53AM PST

Now restart and log into the new Admin account.
Make sure it IS the new Admin account and not just the old one, again.

Now what responds and what doesn't


FYI:

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