MI wrote:

At the end of March I bought a 27 inch iMac with 16 GB of memory, 3.4GHz
Intel Core i7 processor. It has a 3 TB fusion drive. I am running Mountain
Lion (10.8.4)

Since I bought this machine there have been occasions (about every 10 days
to 2 weeks) when the clock stops. To restart it, I have to reboot.

File a bug with Apple.


More seriously, on several occasions I have had the system freeze and I have
had difficulty getting the system to quit.

File another bug with Apple.

Your computer seems to have a bad problem! With Windows I'd
say 'virus?'.


It takes several tries and
several methods. Last time it happened, I got a dialogue stating that the
startup drive was full

Check how full each and every partition is. Find out which
one is our startup partition. Find out why it is full.
(Where is your swap? Where is your tempdir?)


and which open programs did I want to close. All that
was open was a game of solitaire, my Mail account and the Finder. After I
finally got it shut down it wouldn't reboot. After waiting about 1/2 hour I
tried again. No luck. So, when all else fails I pulled the plug and the
machine spontaneously rebooted on its own.

We took the machine into the Apple store as it is still under warranty and
had a complete diagnostic done. After two days of testing the answer my
technician and I got is that it is a Adobe glitch and that Adobe knows that
a patch is required. They claim the problem is between the fusion drive and
Creative Suite. After you have used one of the programs the startup drive
doesn't clear.

File a bug with both Apple annd Adobe.

They claim Adobe is working on it, but I guess unless one signs up for the
monthly rental those of using CS5 or 6 will be out of luck and will just
have be prepared to keep rebooting or whatever it takes.

Has anyone else encountered this problem. Apples says it is the fusion drive
that does not react properly with Adobe's program.

UNLESS Adobe monkeys around with the drive --- which would
mean it has root rights or Apple's OS is buggy --- it's an
Apple fault in my eyes: using a HDD as a HDD, saving files,
storing data, ... that MUST not depend on the technology of
a functioning HDD (or SSD, for that matter).

-Wolfgang