This is an ancient box... like 5 or 6 years? whatever... Anyway, three bootable partitions: Mavericks, Yosemite and Yosemite bootable clone via Carbon Copy. So every few months the fan will go on randomly, DiskUtility starts shrieking that the drive is dying... and figured out that erasing the active partition and restoring from the backup has everything humming nicely again. Except this time. The fan started rumbling, Carbon Copy said two files (Latex help files) were sitting on bad sectors, to trash them and restore from a good copy. Did that. But then trash refused to empty and I got the spinning wheel.
Tried dot_clean in the terminal - which exits without any error but those files are still sitting in trash. And slowness - boot takes about 3 minutes now, spinning wheel if I try to do anything, like for 15 minutes or so and then everything works as expected! Was going to simply erase and reinstall but the bootable backup also was doing this slow routine and, surprisingly, the same when I booted up Mavericks. Ordered an SSD so will install afresh and retire the HDD.
Meanwhile, wondering if anyone has ideas what this strange behavior might be due to? If the drive is bad, I figure it shouldn't be a-ok after 10-15 minutes of slowness?
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