So Here’s What’s Going On With My iMac

About a month ago my iMac began locking up in classic spinning-beachball-of-death fashion. As you know if you've had one of these machines, this forced either a force-quit or a shutdown and restart. About a week after that, the computer more often than not would not force quit, and when it was restarted went to a blue screen and did not reboot at all except for once every few days.

That's how it's been ever since. Only about one in ten times turning it on gets me fully booted, and then only for about a half-hour until the functionality starts to time out as if it simply can't handle what's being run anymore.

As far as I know I haven't run anything differently, or added a program... I think the last thing I added was dropbox months ago.

I've run some standard clean-up programs and monitored what is running when it's up on Activity Monitor -- nothing jumps out as a big user of resources. So I'm pretty flummoxed as to what's happened.

If anyone out there is good with MACs and would like to exchange e-mails with me of a slightly more advanced variety than "make sure your printer is unplugged from the main computer and try again" variety, I'd love to have that discussion. Because right now, that computer is unreliable and useless, and it's made my job about 75 percent more difficult than usual.

Again, I'm pretty good at reading a bunch of stuff on-line, but there comes a point at which I'm simply not seeing anything close to what is actually happening in front of me. So... help?
 
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