Damn spindump

I now switched to 13" MacBook and used Migration Assistant to move old system to new one. For some reason many apps became unresponsive and spindump process was running and consuming processor time.
Disabled spindump for now to see if that helps abit.

Disable sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.spindump.plist

Enable sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.spindump.plist

Time machine errors

So after few months of successful backups it just stopped to work. Investigated the issue and it seems that Time Machine is unable to determine which are "System files and folders" that is by default defined as exception in Options.
From log perspective it means you get lines like
"FindSystemFiles Finding system files..."
"FindSystemFiles FSOpenIterator failed"
to Console and backup hangs.

This option can be replaced with excluding next items

/Applications
/bin
/Library
/private
/sbin
/System
/usr

like instructed here.

Also my MacBook got new 7200 rpm harddrive. Old one started to make weird noises. Its "hello, I am going to break soon > do something" type of noise. You know it, when you hear it!

App Store account

Small howto for Estonia. Needed to obtain free software from Apple AppStore.

Do not delete account !!!

Mail really screwed me in the ***!

I created another account to Mail with different sending address in Mail. Mailbox was duplicate to existing POP3 account. I did it because I needed sender email address I had defined to signing certificate. All worked fine until emails getting in started to appear as dublicate in Mail. Decided to remove accout that was created with this email address defined in certificate. Bang, all data from orgininal POP3 Inbox was also gone.

Now trying to recover with Prosoft Engineering Data Rescue II

Mail and digital signatures

How to add certificates to Mail and digitally sign documents. Also note that you need to close Mail app before certificates are imported.

iMovie 08 - no chapters...

... nor iDVD export. For those who still live in present day, Apple has made available iMovie 06 as addon install for iLife 08.

Still no sleep

Did fresh install and symptoms remain the same. This means that error is somewhere between motherboard and disk, since my disk went sleep on another computer and their disk went to sleep very well on my computer also. And I spent whole yesterday evening and night almost copying data and archiving.

This is the extract from system.log... no information there :(

Oct 10 07:03:10 tiit-paananens-computer kernel[0]: hibernate image path: /var/vm/sleepimage
Oct 10 07:03:10 tiit-paananens-computer kernel[0]: sizeof(IOHibernateImageHeader) == 512
Oct 10 07:03:10 tiit-paananens-computer kernel[0]: Opened file /var/vm/sleepimage, size 2147483648, partition base 0xc805000, maxio 400000
Oct 10 07:03:10 tiit-paananens-computer kernel[0]: hibernate image major 14, minor 2, blocksize 512, pollers 3
Oct 10 07:03:10 tiit-paananens-computer kernel[0]: hibernate_alloc_pages flags 00000000, gobbling 0 pages

And Safari is crashing every 10 minutes when surfing while Firefox restores.

Will go and change computer now.