A dark line descended over my Mac and all the programs froze.
Then the message came up on the screen, telling me that I should push the “Power” button on the front of the Mac, hold it down until the whole machine turned off, and basically do a hard reboot.
Not. Good.
When I managed to restart Doc Octocore, I immediately launched all the diagnostic programs I had.
Seriously, this is something you never wanna see on your computer… 
Now I begin to understand why my Mac has felt like it’s trudging through slush the last couple of months. Apparently, ever since I toyed with Carbonite as a backup solution, then quickly rejected it because it was bringing the web connection to an absolute crawl – well, deleting Carbonite apparently never means that you’re actually done with it. It’s like Newt Gingrich … the damn thing just won’t go away. Just keeps hanging around, causing problems and contributing nothing useful.
To get rid of Carbonite, you have to start doing major surgery on the Library items on your Mac. It looks kinda like this:
