That’s perfect! I hope I didn’t come across harshly about the screenshots, it really is important though. The reasoning came up in another discussion here if you are interested.
This particular journal did not seem to offer up any clues, although perhaps someone else will notice something significant that I overlooked.
My instinct would be to bring it to the most current version available, unless you have a compelling reason not to. I would carefully read through the notes on their website about what systems should not take the update, and if you are not on the list I would take it.
If you really want to crack the case, I think it might be time to start chipping away at TBG’s homework here. It seems like a staggering document when you first scroll through it, but if you take it in sessions it is manageable.
Take notes as you go and continue to update the thread with things you try and the results; you never know when a detail might jump out at someone.
This section here: Troubleshooting System Stutter, Lags, Freezes, and Hangs - #11 by tbg is an especially good section to blast through and get some more notes into the thread. A lot of the questions go quick, so it’s not as bad as it looks. Copy all those questions into Kate or something, type out your answers, and drop the whole thing back into the thread and we’ll search for clues. 