Removing “CopyPaste” completely stopped System freezes of my MacBook Pro which first began when I installed OS 10.5.2

On various Apple Mac discussion forums of late, there have been countless cries for help (by one count over 7,000 of them! ) most notably from owners of MacBook Pros, who have recently upgraded to Mac OS 10.5.2, and are expressing alarm and outrage over the fact that their entire Mac Operating System continually freezes, seemingly spontaneously and for no apparent reason. (I'd say there's good reason to be upset if you just spent a few thousand dollars on your new Apple laptop and it keeps freezing, forcing you to continually execute a hard restart.)

Well, I was one of those individuals who just installed Leopard (OS 10.5.2) onto my MacBook Pro and who within hours started suffering from the exact same kind of unpredictable and spontaneous freezes of the entire System that everyone else was describing. Of the literally hundreds of angry and frustrated complaints I read in looking for an answer to the problem, no one ever mentioned a suspicion that CopyPaste might be a culprit. I certainly wasn't suspicious myself, because CopyPaste seemed to work reasonably well, despite it's ever increasing display of annoying glitches on earlier versions of the Operating System over the last year or so. Between the unpredictable System freezes on OS 10.5.2, CopyPaste seemed to behave and perform reasonably well, as it always had.

However, there was one telltale hint that there just might be at least a connection if not a direct link between my System freezes and CopyPaste's behavior. Although I could not discern any other clear associations with the freezes, I did note that about 20% of the freezes were immediately preceded by some action involving CopyPaste, including either trying to Paste or Copy an item using CopyPaste, or even the most seemingly innocent act of running my cursor over the CopyPast Pallet and having it instantly expand, as it normally does.

Well, just on a growing hunch and suspicion, and nothing more, I completely removed CopyPaste and all of its associated files that I could find on my MacBook Pro, and trashed them. Bingo! The three to a dozen System freezes that I was having every single day for about a week, suddenly came to a complete end. No more freezes.

Now of course I can't say how many of all the complaining MacBook Pro and other Mac laptop owners who who have been suffering System freezes after installing OS 10.5.2, even have CopyPaste installed on their Macs. But if any of them do have CopyPaste installed they might be relieved to know that its removal worked for at least one, up till that point, extremely frustrated individual. I suspect that there are likely other causes of this wide spread and infuriating freezing problem, but certainly for me, after almost a week free of freezes, CopyPaste seems to have been the sole culprit.

P.S. Oddly, what took me so long and partially blinded me in trying to determine the cause of this problem is that I have been a very loyal user and registered supporter of CopyPaste almost from its inception, nearly 20 years ago!