Emptying my trash on imac 2012 Intel
I have an iMac, Feb 2012 model. I used to have a 2006 macbook pro before. When i try to secure empty trash it used to empty very fast on my macbook pro, but imac 2012 which has a much faster processor, it takes a long time for trash to secure empty. Why is this and can I do anything to make it faster etc. via setting.
Please help.
Hello Jasu,
I doubt there's a setting to affect it, but...
See if the Disk is issuing any S.M.A.R.T errors in Disk Utility...
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH7029
Open Activity Monitor in Applications>Utilities, select All Processes & sort on CPU%, any indications there?
How much RAM & free space do you have also, click on the Memory & Disk Usage Tabs.
Open Console in Utilities & see if there are any clues or repeating messages when this happens.
In the Memory tab, are there a lot of Pageouts?
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