Apple File Sharing very slow with Mountain Lion

I've noticed since upgrading to 10.8 the transfer speeds over a LAN via AFP (File Sharing) are VERY slow.. in some instances. Based on the behaviour i'm guessing it has something to do with the amount of items.
for instance:
A folder that contains approx 122mb worth of 1500 small files takes me about 50 seconds to transfer while a long audio recording with a greater filesize of 125mb takes only 11 seconds.
using SCP from the command line the same 122mb folder took only 19 seconds while the audio took 10 seconds.
after performing the same operations on a computer running 10.6 I can deduce that the problem is on the receiving end. Audio file transfer times were the same, however the same folder of items took only 27 seconds when it was transferred to a computer running 10.6 regardless of which OS the computer sending the file was running.
apparently handling a greater number of files increases transfer time for both methods but AFP is painfully slow with 10.8 on the receiving end.
any thoughts or suggestions?
I've read a couple threads about people having trouble with Time Machine running slowly.. i wonder if this is related.

Same problem here. I just upgraded from Lion to Mountain Lion. I only got 19 GB of space, but Time Machine wants 10 hours, whereas in OSX Lion a full backup would take just under an hour, and incremental updates were lightning fast.
I even sat it up to do it overnight, but on 8 hours it was only half way through only 10 GB. I can't live with that in the future.
Im trying to backup on a SD card which seems to work very good in Lion. Im on a 2012 Macbook Air using a SSD.
My bite of the apple has been somewhat sour. I tried reformatting the SD card, well knowing that I would lose old backups. But still the backup is extremely slow. Now I can't install Lion or Mountain Lion from scratch without having to wait 10 hours for TM backup or installing tons of applications and settings again. Bummer. I'm never going to early adobt a OSX upgrade again.

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Time machine very slow with mountain lion

Time Machine backups seem very slow with Mountain Lion.

Same problem here. I just upgraded from Lion to Mountain Lion. I only got 19 GB of space, but Time Machine wants 10 hours, whereas in OSX Lion a full backup would take just under an hour, and incremental updates were lightning fast.
I even sat it up to do it overnight, but on 8 hours it was only half way through only 10 GB. I can't live with that in the future.
Im trying to backup on a SD card which seems to work very good in Lion. Im on a 2012 Macbook Air using a SSD.
My bite of the apple has been somewhat sour. I tried reformatting the SD card, well knowing that I would lose old backups. But still the backup is extremely slow. Now I can't install Lion or Mountain Lion from scratch without having to wait 10 hours for TM backup or installing tons of applications and settings again. Bummer. I'm never going to early adobt a OSX upgrade again.

My laptop is running very slow with mountain lion it's a 2.0ghs intel core i7 macbookpro 15 inch early 2011

I have a 15 inch MacBook pro early 2011 it's 2.0ghz intel core i7 it's running slow and boots up and shutdowns slow i have 300gb space empty in it

I have a 15 inch MacBook pro early 2011 it's 2.0ghz intel core i7 it's running slow and boots up and shutdowns slow i have 300gb space empty in it

Did macbook air mid 2009 running slow with mountain lion?

did macbook air mid 2009 running slow with mountain lion?

Yours is the first computer I've heard about on these forums that is attempting to run Mavericks with only 2GB of RAM.
Indeed that is acceptable per the Mavericks requirements:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5842
... but as you may know, Apple has not sold computers with as little as 2GB RAM for quite a while.
I suggest therefore you make sure you remove any applications that may be overtaxing your machine. Examples are browsers other than Safari, Mac cleaning products (such as Mac Keeper), or any other non-Apple app that has some startup process running (such as Outlook).

HT2020 if you have internet sharing on imac with Mountain Lion its stil problem with sleep mode ! why ???

if you have internet sharing on imac with Mountain Lion its stil problem with sleep mode ! why ???

Log a bug with Apple, with whatever details you can provide. In the interrim, consider acquiring a router; either a repurposed x86 box running open-source networking or gateway software, or a commercial device.

Screen sharing from iChat with Mountain Lion

I have not upgraded yet. I want to, but I am concerned that I will no longer have the ability to screen shard with my parents out of state.
I utilize iChat to control my parents computer, they live out of state and are not too computer savvy, this has been a life saver for me. Does Mountain Lion have a feature like this or is it gone with iChat? Is there a video chat option, or am I stuck with facetime???

Hi,
Yes.
You have to use the same iChat ID as you do now. (AIM or Jabber based)
You have to (it's just easier) have the Buddy lists on View (by default they are not)
Yahoo was added for iChat 6 and is in Messages but does not do A/V chats
iMessage (the new Apple Services between Apple iOS devices and Macs with Mountain Lion) is also Text only.
You have to be able to do A/V Chats.
Speed-wise over the Internet this has to at least 128kbps (the same as a Video Chat on a 1-1 basis)
Another way to view this is that Messages is iChat with the iMessages ability shoehorned in and with a main interface change.
When you first start up Messages it tends to push you to enter an Apple ID to "register it" for the iMessage service.
If you migrate an older OS's User Account to the computer the System Preferences > Mail, Contacts and Calendars (New Preference Pane) picks up on email and other IDs which tends to mean they get added to Messages for you.
You can of course add Screen Names and IDs using the + Button in Messages menu > Preferences Accounts like you do in iChat.
This tends to mean the Messages Menu > Preferences > Accounts looks very familiar
The Window Menu can look a little different.
CMD + 0 brings up the Messages main window (A Chat Window that does tabbed Chats and an Interface all rolled into one)
Once you have other non iMessages Accounts then CMD + 1 brings up Buddies (A combined Buddy List). It is not listed until they are logged in.
They can be unlinked in the General Section of the Preferences at the "Gather all Accounts into one List" line.
Your "desktop" can then look like iChat used to:-
9:17 PM Sunday; February 10, 2013
Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"
 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Mountain Lion 10.8.2)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 Couple of iPhones and an iPad
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

Internet speed is slow with Mountain Lion 10.8.2

Internet speed is slow with Mountain Lion 10.8.2, but booting in separate drive running 10.6 is fine. Tried renewing DHCP, zapped the PRAM, ran disk utilities, and sudo chron. No change. I am running 2008 Mac Pro, 8 gig ram, AT&T DSL via ethernet. Getting 0.15Mbps instead of 3Mbps.

Did you try creating a new location and deleting the old one? Just renewing the DCHP on its own may not be enough. Follow all the instructions here, first:
http://osxdaily.com/2012/08/02/fix-os-x-mountain-lion-wireless-connection-proble ms/
If that doesn't work, have a look at my further instructions here:
http://applehelpwriter.wordpress.com/2012/08/07/problems-with-wifi-safari-and-mo untain-lion/
(ToU Disclaimer: links to my site contain other links which promote my services as a technical writer)

Displaying the number of files in a folder with Mountain Lion?

I recently purchased a new iMac with Mountain Lion and I pretty much hate it. I have been a fan of just about EVERY update, so I am not resistant to change. I just think this is an inferior product. It is slow, clunky, and the update alerts remind me of everything that I hated about PCs. Meh.
Anyway, one of the main problems I have with it is that in previous versions, when I opened a folder, there was a little bit of information at the bottom of the folder that told me how many files were in that folder. As a photographer, I use this information ALL THE TIME. I realize I can click on the folder and "get info" to see how many files are in it...but this is extremely inefficient (especially considering how slow the brand new system is -- in spite of the 3.4 Hz processor and 16GB of RAM).
I can't seem to find anything in the preferences that allows me to change this. If there is a way, I would greatly appreciate it if someone would tell me how! Thank you!

Active Memory: 1.88 GB
Free Memory: 91.6 MB
Wired Memory: 1.33 GB
Used Memory: 15.90 GB
Inactive Memory: 12.69 GB
Total VM: 232.58 GB
Number of processes: 92
PID    Process Name              User       CPU      Real Mem        Virtual Mem
0      kernel_task               root       1.6      893.4 MB        10.17 GB
1      launchd                   root       0.0      2.3 MB          2.39 GB
11     UserEventAgent            root       0.0      4.6 MB          2.41 GB
12     kextd                     root       0.0      6.7 MB          2.39 GB
14     notifyd                   root       0.0      1.8 MB          2.40 GB
15     securityd                 root       0.0      10.2 MB         2.41 GB
16     diskarbitrationd          root       0.0      2.3 MB          2.39 GB
17     powerd                    root       0.0      2.4 MB          2.41 GB
18     configd                   root       0.0      4.9 MB          2.39 GB
19     syslogd                   root       0.0      1.5 MB          2.40 GB
20     cfprefsd                  root       0.0      1.8 MB          2.39 GB
21     distnoted                 root       0.0      2.3 MB          2.41 GB
22     opendirectoryd            root       0.0      11.8 MB         2.43 GB
30     warmd                     nobody     0.0      6.1 MB          2.39 GB
31     usbmuxd                   _usbmuxd   0.0      2.5 MB          2.40 GB
34     stackshot                 root       0.0      1.4 MB          2.39 GB
37     revisiond                 root       0.0      3.0 MB          2.41 GB
38     ptmd                      root       0.0      1.7 MB          2.38 GB
42     mds                       root       0.0      127.6 MB        2.93 GB
43     mDNSResponder             _mdnsrespo 0.0      3.9 MB          2.40 GB
46     loginwindow               karibedfor 0.0      22.0 MB         2.49 GB
47     locationd                 _locationd 0.0      7.9 MB          2.41 GB
48     KernelEventAgent          root       0.0      1.1 MB          2.37 GB
50     hidd                      root       0.6      3.2 MB          2.39 GB
51     fseventsd                 root       0.0      15.5 MB         2.42 GB
53     dynamic_pager             root       0.0      808 KB          2.32 GB
55     dpd                       root       0.0      1.9 MB          2.38 GB
56     appleeventsd              _eppc      0.0      3.2 MB          2.41 GB
59     blued                     root       0.0      4.6 MB          2.41 GB
61     autofsd                   root       0.0      2.1 MB          2.39 GB
62     apsd                      root       0.0      9.6 MB          2.41 GB
63     coreservicesd             root       0.0      24.8 MB         2.43 GB
66     WindowServer              _windowser 2.7      52.1 MB         2.97 GB
74     netbiosd                  _netbios   0.0      3.3 MB          2.40 GB
75     CVMServer                 root       0.0      1.9 MB          2.41 GB
91     networkd                  _networkd 0.0      1.4 MB          2.39 GB
100    aosnotifyd                root       0.0      8.5 MB          2.41 GB
113    logind                    root       0.0      2.0 MB          2.39 GB
114    coreaudiod                _coreaudio 2.2      9.3 MB          2.40 GB
120    launchd                   karibedfor 0.0      1.6 MB          2.39 GB
123    UserEventAgent            karibedfor 0.0      10.1 MB         2.41 GB
124    distnoted                 karibedfor 0.0      3.6 MB          2.41 GB
126    cfprefsd                  karibedfor 0.0      2.3 MB          2.39 GB
132    pboard                    karibedfor 0.0      996 KB          2.32 GB
137    usernoted                 karibedfor 0.0      4.4 MB          2.41 GB
141    talagent                  karibedfor 0.0      7.9 MB          2.43 GB
142    Dock                      karibedfor 0.0      31.0 MB         2.47 GB
143    SystemUIServer            karibedfor 0.0      23.3 MB         2.50 GB
144    Finder                    karibedfor 0.0      127.3 MB        2.66 GB
154    filecoordinationd         root       0.0      12.5 MB         2.39 GB
159    Notification Center       karibedfor 0.0      15.3 MB         2.46 GB
162    imagent                   karibedfor 0.0      6.6 MB          2.41 GB
169    AirPort Base Station Agen karibedfor 0.0      2.0 MB          2.38 GB
172    NetworkBrowserAgent       karibedfor 0.0      7.7 MB          2.41 GB
178    fontd                     karibedfor 0.0      5.8 MB          2.44 GB
181    Photo Stream              karibedfor 0.0      17.0 MB         2.44 GB
186    com.apple.dock.extra      karibedfor 0.0      18.1 MB         2.44 GB
187    lsboxd                    karibedfor 0.0      4.3 MB          2.41 GB
189    launchd                   _spotlight 0.0      1.0 MB          2.39 GB
192    distnoted                 _spotlight 0.0      1.9 MB          2.41 GB
216    AppleSpell.service        karibedfor 0.0      17.0 MB         2.44 GB
243    ntpd                      root       0.0      1.3 MB          2.32 GB
525    syspolicyd                root       0.0      7.5 MB          2.39 GB
569    Photo Mechanic            karibedfor 0.5      535.1 MB        1.33 GB
1047   storeagent                karibedfor 0.0      12.2 MB         2.42 GB
1061   maspushagent              karibedfor 0.0      5.5 MB          2.40 GB
2094   SleepServicesD            root       0.0      1.6 MB          2.34 GB
2118   cfprefsd                  _spotlight 0.0      1.4 MB          2.39 GB
2139   taskgated                 root       0.0      3.8 MB          2.40 GB
2156   cookied                   karibedfor 0.0      1.6 MB          2.39 GB
2176   Safari                    karibedfor 0.0      63.7 MB         3.57 GB
2181   xpcd                      karibedfor 0.0      6.6 MB          2.41 GB
2185   com.apple.iCloudHelper    karibedfor 0.0      6.2 MB          2.41 GB
2283   pbs                       karibedfor 0.0      6.9 MB          2.40 GB
2333   ocspd                     root       0.0      2.8 MB          2.37 GB
2347   accountsd                 karibedfor 0.0      5.2 MB          2.37 GB
2355   xpcd                      _spotlight 0.0      4.8 MB          2.36 GB
2370   mdworker                  karibedfor 0.0      10.2 MB         2.38 GB
2373   CalendarAgent             karibedfor 0.0      14.8 MB         2.41 GB
2374   tccd                      karibedfor 0.0      2.0 MB          2.36 GB
2376   Safari Web Content        karibedfor 0.3      207.2 MB        3.76 GB
2383   syncdefaultsd             karibedfor 0.0      12.4 MB         2.41 GB
2386   mdworker                  karibedfor 0.0      8.3 MB          2.37 GB
2387   Flash Player (Safari Inte karibedfor 0.9      48.4 MB         3.56 GB
2388   helpd                     karibedfor 0.0      2.2 MB          2.37 GB
2389   Activity Monitor          karibedfor 4.1      23.3 MB         2.49 GB
2391   activitymonitord          root       1.0      1.4 MB          2.33 GB
2392   CVMCompiler               karibedfor 0.0      20.3 MB         2.38 GB
2393   mdworker                  _spotlight 0.0      5.7 MB          2.36 GB
2394   mdworker                  _spotlight 0.0      10.3 MB         2.40 GB
2395   mdworker                  karibedfor 0.0      9.4 MB          2.40 GB
2396   sandboxd                  root       0.0      6.7 MB          2.41 GB

Did Apple Break HD-DVD Playback with Mountain Lion using Apple DVD Player?

First of all, kindly spare me the commentary about Blu-Ray beating HD-DVD. Agreed and not the question. I have perfectly good reasons for using HD-DVD and it works very well for my purposes.
I authored an HD-DVD in DVD Studio Pro 4.2.2. as I have done many times before on Snow Leopard, but this time on Mountain Lion. When I try to play the HD-DVD, either from the physical disk from a disk image, the menu appears, but when the play button is pressed, the menu stays on screen, but the player shows the timecode of the movie playing, but with no sound or picture.
Thinking that perhaps the menu got corrupted, I put the same HD-DVD into a MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard, and it played perfectly! Conclusion: Not a DVD Studio Pro problem.
Thinking that it might be DVD Player, I copied DVD Player 5.4 from the Snow Leopard MacBook Pro to the Mountain Lion MacBook Pro (which was running DVD Player 5.6), and the HD-DVD still had the same issue on the Mountain Lion MacBook Pro, under either of the DVD Player versions. Conclusion: Not a DVD Player issue.
The HD-DVD does mount and initialize, so it's not a hardware issue with the optical drive.
Conclusion: It would appear to me that it's an OS issue with Mountain Lion breaking (either intentionally or unintentionally), HD-DVD playback. Anyone know anything more about this issue? Anyone else saddened to see Apple turn into Microsoft circa 2005, and the MacOS turn into Vista? I haven't seen much of anything about it in the forums, which is why I'm posting it here.
Thanks Apple. I just spent the better part of 3 days transcoding and authoring this HD-DVD, only to have you screw it up for me 2 days before my film festival (the perfectly good reason for using HD-DVD). Kindly spare me the, "Why don't you encode a ProRes blah blah blah quicktime movie." Heard it all before.
I knew I would regret upgrading to Mountain Lion, and I do more and more each and every day as I continually find more things that it broke. Yet another reason to add to my list for downgrading to Snow Leopard. I'm up to about 30 of them. Or to abandon Final Cut for Adobe products.
Thanks and sorry for the rant, but I'm justifiably frustrated.

Update: The Apple Store in Nashua, New Hampshire replicated the issue on their own hardware, so yes, Apple did break HD-DVD playback with Mountain Lion (it does still work in Lion, they discovered). The Apple Store reported the issue to engineering, but the more people that report the issue, the more likely Apple will do something about it. Thanks Apple.

Apple remote no longer works with mountain lion

The apple remote that was quite happily working with Lion no longer seems to be working with mountain lion.
I've checked with at least 3 other apple remotes I have and none of them seem to want to pair.
I've been able to pair them with another mac running Lion, but when going to the pair option under;
Preferences--> Security& Privacy --> General --> Advanced -> Pair
Pressing the menu and next for more than a minute gives me nothing on any of the remotes.
Anyone else having issues pairing with mountain lion?
*Note, each of the remotes quite happily will

I thought I had a problem pairing my aluminium Apple remote with EyeTV, but all turned out fine.
When I clicked Preferences --> Security & Privacy --> General --> Advanced --> Pair a message told to press the "Menu and Next" buttons until the remote paired with the computer. At first, I assumed this meant that I should press the two black buttons underneath the main, circular control, but nothing happened.
Then it struck me that the "Next" button might mean the right arrow on the main, circular control, so I held down this while holding the Menu button (the smaller button, below and to the left of the main, circular control), and the remote paired within a few seconds!
I don't have one of the older, white Apple remote controls to test this idea with, but something similar may also work with that remote.

Since Mountain Lion Upgrade is my Internet connection very slow, Since Mountain Lion Upgrade is my Internet connection very slow

Why is Safari so slow after Mountain Lion upgrade?

I have a home Optimum wifi network with Boost connecting to an Airport, with a second Airport extending, and an Airport Express extending. I have a MacBook Pro, last year's model, two iMacs, a year old each, and an older iMac. (If necessary I can get all the models etc, but I just want to express the problem). The two new iMacs and MBP are running Mountain Lion. The older Lion.
Since upgrading to ML my connection speed both over the wifi and directly connecting to the router has dropped from 30-50 down and 5 up to between 1-4 down and 4 up. I have had the cable folks here to test lines. We've swapped out the modem with a new one. I bought a new netgear N600. Everything led to the same result.
Here's the odd part. When restarting the modem and plugging it directly into the powerbook, initial tests show 30-50 up and 5 down. But once you reconnect to wifi, lose speed, the re-connect directly to the modem the slowness persists directly connected to the modem.
So I start suspecting Mountain Lion. BUT the older iMac cannot be upgraded to Mountain and is still running Lion and has the same issue. The equipment is in the same place it's always been. We've added no electronics that would be interfering with signals.
Everyone is stumped and looking suspicously at the computer and OS. Please help. I'm beginning to hear the bing bong bing bong of dial up in my head.

HT4848 Two days ago I upgraded my MAC PRO from Lion to Mountain Lion via my account at the Apple App store. My machine runs so slow with Mountain Lion especially mail that it is completely useless. It take about ten minutes per mouse click to register.

I also run Parralles 7. I re-installed this a few times with no affect. I have it not running and my Mountain Lion is still too slow to use. Again a single mouse or keystroke takes up to ten minues to register.
Suggestions ?

Startup in Safe mode (holding Shift key down) http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1455
Then you can update or uninstall your problematic third-party software.

MacBook Pro 7,1 SLOW with Mountain Lion

Hi there!!
Well my problem is with my 2010 Macbook Pro 13" 2.4 Ghz Intel C2D is really slow and it always shows the spinning beachball even when open a new tab in Safari or any other app, when play a song or a video on iTunes it pauses several times, the video gets freeze but the audio continues.
Just a few months ago I upgraded the Ram to 8 Gb (Corsair 1067) and the Hdd to a 640 gb Toshiba, thinking that the problem would be the OS I made a clean install of Mountain Lion and the problem continued, ran the AHT and it shows an error with the Ram, I changed the wrong module with one of the 2 gb that the computer came with but the problem continues, I've been monitoring the system, temperature, ram, hd and cpu (made an stress test) and it all just seems to be fine, but is not...
Hope you can help me please!!

Things You Can Do To Keep Your Computer From Slowing Down
If your computer seems to be running slower here are some things you can do:
Boot into Safe Mode then repair your hard drive and permissions:
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions Pre-Lion
Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
Repair the Hard Drive - Lion
Boot from your Lion Recovery HD. When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported, then click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu. Select Restart from the Apple menu.
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Restart your computer normally and see if this has helped any. Next do some maintenance:
Suggestions for OS X Maintenance
For situations Disk Utility cannot handle the best third-party utility is Disk Warrior; DW only fixes problems with the disk directory, but most disk problems are caused by directory corruption; Disk Warrior 4.x is now Intel Mac compatible.
OS X performs certain maintenance functions that are scheduled to occur on a daily, weekly, or monthly period. The maintenance scripts run in the early AM only if the computer is turned on 24/7 (no sleep.) If this isn't the case, then an excellent solution is to download and install a shareware utility such as Macaroni, JAW PseudoAnacron, or Anacron that will automate the maintenance activity regardless of whether the computer is turned off or asleep. Dependence upon third-party utilities to run the periodic maintenance scripts was significantly reduced since Tiger. These utilities have limited or no functionality with Snow Leopard or Lion and should not be installed.
OS X automatically defragments files less than 20 MBs in size, so unless you have a disk full of very large files there's little need for defragmenting the hard drive. As for virus protection there are few if any such animals affecting OS X. You can protect the computer easily using the freeware Open Source virus protection software ClamXAV. Personally I would avoid most commercial anti-virus software because of their potential for causing problems. For more about malware see Macintosh Virus Guide.
I would also recommend downloading a utility such as TinkerTool System, OnyX 2.4.3, or Cocktail 5.1.1 that you can use for periodic maintenance such as removing old log files and archives, clearing caches, etc.
For emergency repairs install the freeware utility Applejack. If you cannot start up in OS X, you may be able to start in single-user mode from which you can run Applejack to do a whole set of repair and maintenance routines from the command line. Note that AppleJack 1.5 is required for Leopard. AppleJack 1.6 is compatible with Snow Leopard. There is no confirmation that this version also works with Lion.
When you install any new system software or updates be sure to repair the hard drive and permissions beforehand.
Get an external Firewire drive at least equal in size to the internal hard drive and make (and maintain) a bootable clone/backup. You can make a bootable clone using the Restore option of Disk Utility. You can also make and maintain clones with good backup software. My personal recommendations are (order is not significant):
Carbon Copy Cloner
Data Backup
Deja Vu
SuperDuper!
SyncTwoFolders
Synk Pro
Synk Standard
Tri-Backup
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQs on maintenance, optimization, virus protection, and backup and restore.
Additional suggestions will be found in Mac maintenance Quick Assist.
Referenced software can be found at CNet Downloads or MacUpdate.
Additional Hints
Be sure you have an adequate amount of RAM installed for the number of applications you run concurrently. Be sure you leave a minimum of 10% of the hard drive's capacity as free space.
Add more RAM. If your computer has less than 2 GBs of RAM and you are using OS X Leopard or later, then you can do with more RAM. Snow Leopard and Lion work much better with 4 GBs of RAM than their system minimums. The more concurrent applications you tend to use the more RAM you should have.
Always maintain at least 15 GBs or 10% of your hard drive's capacity as free space, whichever is greater. OS X is frequently accessing your hard drive, so providing adequate free space will keep things from slowing down.
Check for applications that may be hogging the CPU:
Open Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder. Select All Processes from the Processes dropdown menu. Click twice on the CPU% column header to display in descending order. If you find a process using a large amount of CPU time, then select the process and click on the Quit icon in the toolbar. Click on the Force Quit button to kill the process. See if that helps. Be sure to note the name of the runaway process so you can track down the cause of the problem.
Often this problem occurs because of a corrupted cache or preferences file or an attempt to write to a corrupted log file.

Mail very slow in Mountain Lion

The upgrade to Mountain Lion went smoothly but Mail works really badly afterwards.
When sending an email, it takes a few minutes before the mail goes out. And that's with any size message.
Auto-completion of mail addresses while composing takes multiple minutes. Even after it finally comes up with a list of email addresses, pressing enter on one also takes minutes to acknowledge
At various times, hitting the mail icon on the dock has no effect. The same is true with Command+TAB
Overall, the unresponsiveness is painful and making me wish I hadn't upgraded

This didn't solve my problem. First of all:
     $ ls /Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist
     ls: /Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist: No such file or directory
but I do have the file in my local Library:
     $ pwd
     /Users/spate/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Preferences
     $ ls -l *mail*
     lrwxr-xr-x 1 spate spate     64 Jul 26 11:08 com.apple.mail.LSSharedFileList.plist@ ->      ../../../../../Preferences/com.apple.mail.LSSharedFileList.plist
     -rw------- 1 spate spate   6733 Jul 27 08:24 com.apple.mail.plist
     -rw------- 1 spate spate 56130 Jul 27 08:12 com.apple.mail.plist.bak
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This is horribly painful!

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