Subject: Re: [Butler Talk] Butler has become very slow at times

From: My nickname <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 09:58:53 -0800 (PST)

On Friday, December 28, 2012 1:25:48 PM UTC-8, Many Tricks wrote:
>
> On Dec 27, 2012, at 6:17 PM, My nickname wrote: 
>
> > problem persists, so any suggestions. It took a couple of hours because 
> I'd get a spinning beach ball and do something else, then come back and 
> correct a few links. 
>
> This sounds suspiciously like the 10.8.2 bug that can affect Name Mangler 
> (and any other app that does inter-app communication). We wrote about it 
> here: 
>
> <http://manytricks.com/blog/?p=2441> 
>
> You can try the Terminal command listed there, or you can just reboot the 
> Mac. Hopefully Apple fixes this in 10.8.3. (If this doesn't fix the issue, 
> please let me know and we'll try other things.) 
>
> regards, 
> -rob.

Thanks Rob, it appears that my reconnecting all the "broken links" did the 
trick, although it's too early to be certain. I'll try the recommended fix 
if I get  a reoccurrence.

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From: Rob Griffiths <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:25:48 -0800

On Dec 27, 2012, at 6:17 PM, My nickname wrote:

> problem persists, so any suggestions. It took a couple of hours because I'd get a spinning beach ball and do something else, then come back and correct a few links. 

This sounds suspiciously like the 10.8.2 bug that can affect Name Mangler (and any other app that does inter-app communication). We wrote about it here:

You can try the Terminal command listed there, or you can just reboot the Mac. Hopefully Apple fixes this in 10.8.3. (If this doesn't fix the issue, please let me know and we'll try other things.)

regards,
-rob.

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From: My nickname <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 18:17:16 -0800 (PST)

Butler has recently become very slow to respond, as in minutes. I didn't 
bother to track this down for a while, because I assumed it was something 
slowing my computer down in general, e.g., when Time Machine kicks in, 
things get sluggish. But I just checked and System Preferences>Keyboard 
shortcuts work fine, e.g., Cmd-Option-D to show and hide the Dock. I mostly 
use Butler for app switching, but also text insertion and to take me 
straight to Google Search. I just went to look at Butler and after 
scrolling and clicking on a few items got the dreaded spinning beach ball. 
Check Activity Monitor and was getting 98–100 percent of CPU usage. Came 
back to Safari and clicking on the Butler menu bar and computer partially 
froze for about a minute. Could use Dock to switch apps, but couldn't type. 
Couldn't type in Safari either. 

Just changed a path in Butler by typing the path in, and I had it wrong 
which brought up the spinning beach ball again. Activity Monitor shows 0, 
0.1, and 0.2 percent usage but spinning beach ball if I roll over the 
Butler menu icon. I beginning to think Butler is choking because I have too 
many paths wrong. Will try and fix them and see if things go better. 
Waiting for spinning beach ball when I roll over the Butler menu icon to 
stop. Still seeing very low CPU use as mentioned at the beginning of the 
paragraph. Went and did some other stuff for 15 minutes—0.1% CPU, spinning 
beach ball when roll over Butler menu item. Time for force quit. Just now 
Butler responded to a command I put in a minute ago. Got into Butler 
configure and within 10 seconds when I scrolled, spinning beach ball again.

Took a couple of hours, but I reconnected all the missing file links (I had 
moved my utilities out of Apple's Utility folder because I got tired of 
authenticating each time I updated or added one). Unfortunately the problem 
persists, so any suggestions. It took a couple of hours because I'd get a 
spinning beach ball and do something else, then come back and correct a few 
links.