Howto speed up painfully slow computer???

I have a 12" powerbook g4 that was the last model before the intel macs. it has a 1.5 Gig processor and 512 megs of ram. it has an 80 gig HD with 15 gigs free.
it is painfully slow. i don't run a lot of apps at the same time, i have restarted, i have repaired disk permissions and run disk utility. i also ran onyx.
my wife has a pre-intel ibook that has less power but runs significantly faster running essentially the same apps.
how can i speed up my computer?
thank you.

Kappy's Personal Suggestions for OS X Maintenance
For disk repairs use Disk Utility. For situations DU cannot handle the best third-party utilities are: Disk Warrior; DW only fixes problems with the disk directory, but most disk problems are caused by directory corruption; Disk Warrior 4.0 is now Intel Mac compatible. TechTool Pro provides additional repair options including file repair and recovery, system diagnostics, and disk defragmentation. TechTool Pro 4.6.1 is Leopard compatible; Drive Genius is similar to TechTool Pro in terms of the various repair services provided. The current version, 1.5.1, is 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.
OS X automatically defrags 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.
I would also recommend downloading the shareware utility TinkerTool System that you can use for periodic maintenance such as removing old logfiles 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 commandline. Note that presently AppleJack is not compatible with Leopard.
When you install any new system software or updates be sure to repair the hard drive and permissions beforehand. I also recommend booting into safe mode before doing system software updates.
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):
1. Retrospect Desktop (Commercial - not yet universal binary)
2. Synchronize! Pro X (Commercial)
3. Synk (Backup, Standard, or Pro)
4. Deja Vu (Shareware)
5. PsynchX 2.1.1 and RsyncX 2.1 (Freeware)
6. Carbon Copy Cloner (Freeware - 3.0 is a Universal Binary)
7. SuperDuper! (Commercial)
8. Data Backup (Commercial)
The following utilities can also be used for backup, but cannot create bootable clones:
1. Backup (requires a .Mac account with Apple both to get the software and to use it.)
2. Toast
3. Impression
4. arRSync
Apple's Backup is a full backup tool capable of also backing up across multiple media such as CD/DVD. However, it cannot create bootable backups. It is primarily an "archiving" utility as are the other two.
Impression and Toast are disk image based backups, only. Particularly useful if you need to backup to CD/DVD across multiple media.
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 www.versiontracker.com and www.macupdate.com.

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System Version: OS X 10.10 (14A389)
Kernel Version: Darwin 14.0.0
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Memory
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      Size: 4 GB
      Speed: 1067 MHz
      Status: OK
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      Speed: 1067 MHz
      Status: OK
      Manufacturer: 0x859B
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   Hitachi HTS545032B9SA02
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   USB Receiver (Logitech Inc.)
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   2014-12-17 Safari crash
   2014-12-17 com.apple.appkit.xpc.openAndSavePanelService crash
   2014-12-17 garcon crash x4
   2014-12-27 Finder crash
   2014-12-27 ThisLife Uploader crash
   2014-12-27 garcon crash x2
   2014-12-28 Finder crash
   2014-12-28 garcon crash x3
   2014-12-31 com.apple.appkit.xpc.openAndSavePanelService crash
   2014-12-31 garcon crash
   2015-01-02 Finder crash
   2015-01-02 garcon crash
   2015-01-05 Finder crash
   2015-01-05 HandBrake crash
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   2015-01-07 garcon crash
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   Jan 7 11:47:43 com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.user.202: Failed to bootstrap path: path = /Library/LaunchAgents/com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist, error = 2: No such file or directory
   Jan 7 11:47:58 com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.user.89: Could not read path: path = /Library/LaunchAgents/com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist, error = 2: No such file or directory
   Jan 7 11:47:58 com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.user.89: Failed to bootstrap path: path = /Library/LaunchAgents/com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist, error = 2: No such file or directory
   Jan 7 11:48:38 jnl: disk2s3: replay_journal: from: 50180096 to: 50778112 (joffset 0x3a3c000)
   Jan 7 11:48:39 jnl: disk2s3: journal replay done.
   Jan 7 11:49:37 com.logmein.LMILaunchAgentFixer: Service setup event to handle failure and will not launch until it fires.
   Jan 7 11:49:39 com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.pid.om.apple.photostream-agent.319: Path not allowed in target domain: type = pid, path = /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/Frameworks/PhotoFoundation.framework/Versions /A/XPCServices/com.apple.PhotoApps.DevicePropertyReader.xpc error = 147: The specified service did not ship in the requestor's bundle, origin = /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/PhotoStreamAgent.app
   Jan 7 11:49:39 com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.pid.om.apple.photostream-agent.319: Path not allowed in target domain: type = pid, path = /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/Frameworks/PhotoFoundation.framework/Versions /A/XPCServices/com.apple.PhotoApps.DevicePropertyReader.xpc error = 147: The specified service did not ship in the requestor's bundle, origin = /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/PhotoStreamAgent.app
   Jan 7 11:49:39 com.citrix.ServiceRecords: Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.citrix.Beacons
   Jan 7 11:51:29 process iPhoto[248] thread 2450 caught burning CPU! It used more than 50% CPU (Actual recent usage: 52%) over 180 seconds. thread lifetime cpu usage 90.109268 seconds, (87.476202 user, 2.633066 system) ledger info: balance: 90008641218 credit: 90014455352 debit: 5814134 limit: 90000000000 (50%) period: 180000000000 time since last refill (ns): 172082865204
   Jan 7 11:52:49 com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.user.99: Could not read path: path = /Library/LaunchAgents/com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist, error = 2: No such file or directory
   Jan 7 11:52:49 com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.user.99: Failed to bootstrap path: path = /Library/LaunchAgents/com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist, error = 2: No such file or directory
   Jan 7 12:07:36 process iPhoto[490] thread 12067 caught burning CPU! It used more than 50% CPU (Actual recent usage: 93%) over 180 seconds. thread lifetime cpu usage 90.200179 seconds, (88.682346 user, 1.517833 system) ledger info: balance: 90012025000 credit: 90016246356 debit: 4221356 limit: 90000000000 (50%) period: 180000000000 time since last refill (ns): 96436947650
   Jan 7 12:19:32 com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.pid.quicklookd.536: Path not allowed in target domain: type = pid, path = /Library/Frameworks/iTunesLibrary.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/com.apple.iT unesLibraryService.xpc error = 147: The specified service did not ship in the requestor's bundle, origin = /System/Library/Frameworks/QuickLook.framework/Versions/A/Resources/quicklookd. app
   Jan 7 12:21:38 process WindowServer[134] caught causing excessive wakeups. Observed wakeups rate (per sec): 174; Maximum permitted wakeups rate (per sec): 150; Observation period: 300 seconds; Task lifetime number of wakeups: 130324
   Jan 7 12:24:23 process Image Capture Ex[494] caught causing excessive wakeups. Observed wakeups rate (per sec): 1570; Maximum permitted wakeups rate (per sec): 150; Observation period: 300 seconds; Task lifetime number of wakeups: 45166
   Jan 7 12:28:45 process iPhoto[643] thread 21591 caught burning CPU! It used more than 50% CPU (Actual recent usage: 90%) over 180 seconds. thread lifetime cpu usage 90.114637 seconds, (88.373536 user, 1.741101 system) ledger info: balance: 90002127665 credit: 90005648813 debit: 3521148 limit: 90000000000 (50%) period: 180000000000 time since last refill (ns): 99086317519
   Jan 7 12:30:17 com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.pid.om.apple.photostream-agent.655: Path not allowed in target domain: type = pid, path = /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/Frameworks/PhotoFoundation.framework/Versions /A/XPCServices/com.apple.PhotoApps.DevicePropertyReader.xpc error = 147: The specified service did not ship in the requestor's bundle, origin = /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/PhotoStreamAgent.app
   Jan 7 12:30:17 com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.pid.om.apple.photostream-agent.655: Path not allowed in target domain: type = pid, path = /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/Frameworks/PhotoFoundation.framework/Versions /A/XPCServices/com.apple.PhotoApps.DevicePropertyReader.xpc error = 147: The specified service did not ship in the requestor's bundle, origin = /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/PhotoStreamAgent.app
   Jan 7 13:13:15 process com.apple.WebKit[827] caught causing excessive wakeups. Observed wakeups rate (per sec): 560; Maximum permitted wakeups rate (per sec): 150; Observation period: 300 seconds; Task lifetime number of wakeups: 55866
   Jan 7 20:09:33 process iPhoto[643] caught causing excessive wakeups. Observed wakeups rate (per sec): 198; Maximum permitted wakeups rate (per sec): 150; Observation period: 300 seconds; Task lifetime number of wakeups: 269536
   Jan 8 01:12:04 AppleUSBMultitouchDriver::validateChecksum - 512-byte packet checksum is incorrect (expected 0xf60c, checksum bytes were 0xdead)
   Jan 8 15:06:18 com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.pid.quicklookd.1302: Path not allowed in target domain: type = pid, path = /Library/Frameworks/iTunesLibrary.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/com.apple.iT unesLibraryService.xpc error = 147: The specified service did not ship in the requestor's bundle, origin = /System/Library/Frameworks/QuickLook.framework/Versions/A/Resources/quicklookd. app
Memory: iPhoto (UID 501) is using 2093 MB
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dylibs
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App extensions
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Contents of /Library/LaunchAgents/com.citrix.AuthManager_Mac.plist
   - mod date: Jun 7 11:58:25 2013
   - checksum: 1591517921
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    <key>LimitLoadToSessionType</key>
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    <false/>
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Contents of /Library/LaunchAgents/com.citrix.ReceiverHelper.plist
   - mod date: Jun 7 11:58:25 2013
   - checksum: 676087606
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    <key>LimitLoadToSessionType</key>
    <string>Aqua</string>
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    <false/>
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   </plist>
Contents of /Library/LaunchAgents/com.citrix.ServiceRecords.plist
   - mod date: Jun 7 11:58:25 2013
   - checksum: 1445213025
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   <dict>
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    <true/>
    <key>MachServices</key>
    <dict>
    <key>com.citrix.Beacons</key>
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    <key>WaitForDebugger</key>
    <false/>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
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    <string>/usr/local/libexec/ServiceRecords.app/Contents/MacOS/ServiceRecords</st ring>
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   ...and 8 more line(s)
Contents of /Library/LaunchAgents/com.logmein.LMILaunchAgentFixer.plist
   - mod date: Nov 10 20:47:41 2014
   - checksum: 94065829
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    <true/>
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Contents of /Library/LaunchAgents/com.logmein.logmeingui.plist
   - mod date: Jan 7 12:05:30 2015
   - checksum: 849719711
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    <array>
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Contents of /Library/LaunchAgents/com.logmein.logmeinguiagent.plist
   - mod date: Jan 7 12:05:30 2015
   - checksum: 1227007658
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Contents of /Library/LaunchAgents/com.logmein.logmeinguiagentatlogin.plist
   - mod date: Jan 7 12:05:30 2015
   - checksum: 3390435066
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    <true/>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.logmein.logmeinguiagentatlogin</string>
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    <key>OnDemand</key>
    <true/>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
    <string>/Library/Application Support/LogMeIn/bin/LogMeIn.app/Contents/Helpers/LMIGUIAgent.app/Contents/MacOS /LMIGUIAgent</string>
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    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <false/>
    <key>Sockets</key>
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Contents of /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.gopro.stereomodestatus.plist
   - mod date: Jan 29 17:22:17 2014
   - checksum: 2319101607
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   <dict>
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    <string>com.gopro.stereomodestatus</string>
    <key>LimitLoadToSessionType</key>
    <string>Aqua</string>
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    <true/>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
    <string>/Applications/GoPro/Tools/StereoModeStatus.app/Contents/MacOS/StereoMod eStatus</string>
    </array>
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   </plist>
Contents of /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.logmein.logmeinserver.plist
   - mod date: Jan 7 12:05:30 2015
   - checksum: 1427099528
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    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
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    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
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    <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
    <string>/Library/Logs/LogMeIn/stderr.log</string>
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Contents of /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.logmein.raupdate.plist
   - mod date: Nov 10 20:46:56 2014
   - checksum: 3493110929
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    <false/>
    <key>LaunchOnlyOnce</key>
    <true/>
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    <key>StandardOutPath</key>
    <string>/Library/Logs/LogMeIn/stdout.log</string>
    <key>WorkingDirectory</key>
    <string>/Library/Application Support/LogMeIn/bin/</string>
   ...and 2 more line(s)
Contents of /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2.Agent.plist
   - mod date: Sep 1 15:15:35 2014
   - checksum: 2214847194
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Contents of /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.sharpcast.xfsmond.plist
   - mod date: May 4 20:28:27 2013
   - checksum: 3377386094
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    <string>Unix</string>
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Contents of Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.ARM.UUID.plist
   - mod date: Jul 24 11:11:09 2013
   - checksum: 394026997
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    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
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Contents of Library/LaunchAgents/com.google.keystone.agent.plist
   - mod date: Nov 30 14:26:35 2014
   - checksum: 4084537214
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Listeners
   cupsd: ipp
User login items
   Garmin Express Service
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   Dropbox
   - /Applications/Dropbox.app
   Google Chrome
   - /Applications/Google Chrome.app
   ThisLife Uploader
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   WDQuickView
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Safari extensions
   Evernote Web Clipper
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Widgets
   iCal
   Earth
Restricted files: 339
Lockfiles: 101
Elapsed time (s): 844
Wow, that's a lot of data for you to sift through, but I suppose you know what you are looking to find. I bet you earned every one of those points. Thanks, Linc. All the folks in the world waiting for me to share their photos with them thank you as well : ) Cathleen

After Effects CS6 running painfully slow

I am working on a composition in Adobe After Effects CS6, and it's running painfully slow. I've tried to mess with some of the settings in the preferences, and lowering the quality of the preview. But I still feel like I'm running terribly slow considering the speed of my computer. Here's what I'm running:
Mac Pro Desktop
Model Name:          Mac Pro
Model Identifier:          MacPro5,1
Processor Name:          Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed:          2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors:          2
Total Number Of Cores:          8
L2 Cache (per core):          256 KB
L3 Cache (per processor):          12 MB
Memory:          24 GB
Processor Interconnect Speed:          5.86 GT/s
Video Card
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800:
Chipset Model:          NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800
Type:          GPU
Bus:          PCIe
Slot:          Slot-1
PCIe Lane Width:          x16
VRAM (Total):          1536 MB
Vendor:          NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID:          0x05fe
Revision ID:          0x00a1
ROM Revision:          3426
Displays:
SyncMaster:
Resolution:          1680 x 1050 @ 60 Hz
Pixel Depth:          32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Display Serial Number:          H9LPA06272
Main Display:          Yes
Mirror:          Off
Online:          Yes
Rotation:          Supported
SyncMaster:
Resolution:          1680 x 1050 @ 60 Hz
Pixel Depth:          32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Display Serial Number:          H9LPA06265
Mirror:          Off
Online:          Yes
Rotation:          Supported
Hard Drive
WDC WD1001FALS-41Y6A0:
Capacity:          1 TB (1,000,204,886,016 bytes)
Model:          WDC WD1001FALS-41Y6A0
Revision:          05.03D06
Serial Number:               WD-WCATR2482149
Native Command Queuing:          Yes
Queue Depth:          32
Removable Media:          No
Detachable Drive:          No
BSD Name:          disk0
Rotational Rate:          7200
Medium Type:          Rotational
Bay Name:          Bay 1
Partition Map Type:          GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. status:          Verified
Volumes:
Capacity:          209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)
Writable:          Yes
BSD Name:          disk0s1
MAC OS X:
Capacity:          677.53 GB (677,531,090,944 bytes)
Available:          421.16 GB (421,160,968,192 bytes)
Writable:          Yes
File System:          Journaled HFS+
BSD Name:          disk0s2
Mount Point:          /
Untitled:
Capacity:          322.33 GB (322,328,068,096 bytes)
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Mount Point:          /Volumes/Untitled
The composition I'm working with does have 1 camera, and about 45 small 3D comps built into it. No lights. And all of the footage and data is on the Mac OSX hard drive. Which has tons of space available as you can see. I've played around with the settings in After Effects. But nothing seems to significantly speed things up. Any ideas??

Hey PJ,
I've been using CS6 since it was released, and while it's got a bunch of great new features, it's basically made Multi Processing unusable unless we're talking about the simplest of comps.   I'm working on my second short using AE as the total animation package, and render times for complicated 3D comps (NOT using ray tracing) have tripled.   MP used to take forever to spool up, but was fast once it got rolling. Now, disabling MP gives me 3 or 4 times faster rendering, which is still MUCH slower than MP is CS5.5. SOmething has deflineitly changed for the worse, as i'm using the same machine with the same settings and virtually the same comps.
I acutally just yesterday had two animators quit on my because they couldn't meet their deadlines.
I think After Effects is the hydra of programs. They kill one feature and two more fill its place. Unfortuanly we traded functional Multi-processing for falloff lighting and etc... The puppet tool was it 3 version of after effects before it was stable. I'm hoping we don't have to wait til CS7 for MP to sort itself out.
I really don't understand the "deal with it" aspect of the posters here. Surely a functional program that delivers on it's promises is the goal of this forum. We're not asking it to make us a sandwich.

Brush and smudge tools painfully slow in CS5

I use CS5 on quad core 2.26ghz macpro with 32 gb RAM. It's a clean system, both cs5 and os10.6.6 updated. No extra plug-ins or fonts. I do have an extra video card installed for my raid 5 system. Only use photoshop on this computer. Using the healing brush or smudge tool is painfully slow. also moving layers around are slow. I work on 10-15GB files. My assistant works on my old G5 with 8gb of ram and since it's not an intel he's still working in CS2. Using the healing brush on a 4GB file is faster on the G5 in CS2 than on my Quadcore in CS5. What is going on here? how can I speed things up?
I have cache levels set to 7, cache tile sice to 1024.

i have found that any mac pro i use - not all set up the same- if they have a nvidia card after a few hours of working there will be a slowdown of painting, cloning, smudging and screen redraw. I always have open gl off. adobe engineers have been helping now and then but no one has a solution. on the windows forum someone reportedly adjusted their video card settings to fix it. but on a mac we have to option to do that - that i know of. it is a big problem for me when using CS5 that I use CS3 when possible.

Painfully slow startup - any suggestions how to make it faster?

Hi Everyone,
Just thought I'd ask people - my 17" iMac G5 1.9GHz PowerPC with 512MB ram is painfully slow at start-up. Seems to take forever! Does anyone know how I could clear a lot of rubbish from my computer and someone make it faster.
Would anyone recommend a complete re-install - would that improve speed?
Any help appreciated, cheers,
Mark

Mark, you can clear space on your drive and speed it up by moving a lot of sound and video files to a DVD, or even better, to an external; Firewire drive that you can partition and also use as a clone boot disk.
Go through your applications folder and look for stuff that you never use, then get AppZapper to remove all traces of them. You can also use Monolingual to remove the tons of extra languages installed with Word and OS X, just make sure you uncheck English and any other language you might use.
Hope some of this helps,
Miriam

Good Spec Mac Mini got painfully slow

Hi All
Following reading posts on this forum, I have upgraded my 2011 Mac Mini from 4gb to 8gb Memory, but it is still painfully slow, with the spinning beach ball always in play.
I now have a Core i7, 2.7ghz Mac Mini, with 8GB DDR3 memory, 500 mb disc (with 300gb free), running OSX 10.9.1. I run Microsoft office and Iphoto and thats pretty much it, but even using Iphoto can take seconds for ecah photo to move, and typing emails often means waiting for the text to catch up with my typing.
In my frustration I copied everything off, re formatted the hard disc, and re installed everything, but its still the same speed. The Activity monitor shows very little CPU activity, although the memory shows as 7.87GB used out of 8GB, not sure if that is normal.
Any ideas would be really welcome, as its getting very frustrating to use, when I first purchased the MAC mini it was blindingly fast on everything.
Thanks
Martyn

If you don't already have a current backup, back up all data before doing anything else. This procedure is a diagnostic test. It changes nothing, for better or worse, and therefore will not, in itself, solve your problem. The backup is necessary on general principle, not because of anything suggested in this comment. There are ways to back up a computer that isn't fully functional. Ask if you need guidance.
Third-party system modifications are a common cause of usability problems. By a “system modification,” I mean software that affects the operation of other software — potentially for the worse. The procedure will help identify which such modifications you've installed, as well as some other aspects of the configuration that may be related to the problem.
Don’t be alarmed by the seeming complexity of these instructions — they’re easy to carry out. Here's a brief summary: In each of two steps, you copy a line of text from this web page into a window in another application. You wait about a minute. Then you paste some other text, which will have been copied automatically, back into a reply on this page. The sequence is copy; paste; paste again. That's all there is to it. Details follow.
You may have started the computer in "safe" mode. Preferably, these steps should be taken while booted in “normal” mode. If the system is now running in safe mode and is bootable in normal mode, reboot as usual. If it only boots in safe mode, use that.
Below are instructions to enter UNIX shell commands. They do nothing but produce human-readable output. However, you need to think carefully before running any program at the behest of a stranger on a public message board. If you question the safety of the procedure suggested here — which you should — search this site for other discussions in which it’s been followed without any report of ill effects. If you can't satisfy yourself that these instructions are safe, don't follow them.
The commands will line-wrap or scroll in your browser, but each one is really just a single long line, all of which must be selected. You can accomplish this easily by triple-clicking anywhere in the line. The whole line will highlight, and you can then copy it.
If you have more than one user account, Step 2 must be taken as an administrator. Ordinarily that would be the user created automatically when you booted the system for the first time. Step 1 should be taken as the user who has the problem, if different. Most personal Macs have only one user, and in that case this paragraph doesn’t apply.
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
When you launch Terminal, a text window will open with a line already in it, ending either in a dollar sign (“$”) or a percent sign (“%”). If you get the percent sign, enter “sh” and press return. You should then get a new line ending in a dollar sign.
Step 1
Triple-click anywhere in the line of text below on this page to select it:
PB=/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy; PR () { [[ "$o" ]] && o=$(sed 's/^/   /' <<< "$o") && printf '\n%s:\n\n%s\n' "$1" "$o"; }; PC () { o=$(grep [^[:blank:]] "$2"); PR "$1"; }; PF () { o=$($PB -c Print "$2" | awk -F'= ' \/$3'/{print $2}'); PR "$1"; }; PN () { [[ $o -eq 0 ]] || printf "\n%s: %s\n" "$1" $o; }; { system_profiler SPSoftwareDataType | sed '8!d;s/^ *//'; o=$(system_profiler SPDiagnosticsDataType | sed '5,6!d'); fgrep -q P <<< "$o" && o=; PR "POST"; o=$(($(vm_stat | awk '/Pageo/{sub("\\.",""); print $2}')/256)); o=$((o>=1024?o:0)); PN "Pageouts (MiB)"; s=( $(sar -u 1 10 | sed '$!d') ); [[ ${s[4]} -lt 90 ]] && o=$( printf 'User %s%%\t\tSystem %s%%' ${s[1]} ${s[3]} ) || o=; PR "Total CPU usage"; [[ "$o" ]] && o=$(ps acrx -o comm,ruid,%cpu | sed '2!d'); PR "Max %CPU by process (name, UID, %)"; o=$(kextstat -kl | grep -v com\\.apple | cut -c53- | cut -d\< -f1); PR "Loaded extrinsic kernel extensions"; o=$(launchctl list | sed 1d | awk '!/0x|com\.apple|org\.(x|openbsd)|\.[0-9]+$/{print $3}'); PR "Loaded extrinsic user agents"; o=$(launchctl getenv DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES); PR "Inserted libraries"; PC "cron configuration" /e*/cron*; o=$(crontab -l | grep [^[:blank:]]); PR "User cron tasks"; PC "Global launchd configuration" /e*/lau*; PC "Per-user launchd configuration" ~/.lau*; PF "Global login items" /L*/P*/loginw* Path; PF "Per-user login items" L*/P*/*loginit* Name; PF "Safari extensions" L*/Saf*/*/E*.plist Bundle | sed 's/\..*$//;s/-[1-9]$//'; o=$(find ~ $TMPDIR.. $ -flags +sappnd,schg,uappnd,uchg -o ! -user $UID -o ! -perm -600 $ | wc -l); PN "Restricted user files"; cd; o=$(find -L /S*/L*/E* {,/}L*/{A*d,Compon,Ex,In,Keyb,Mail/Bu,P*P,Qu,Scripti,Servi,Spo}* -type d -name Contents -prune | while read d; do ID=$($PB -c 'Print :CFBundleIdentifier' "$d/Info.plist") || ID=; ID=${ID:-No bundle ID}; egrep -qv "^com\.apple\.[^x]|Accusys|ArcMSR|ATTO|HDPro|HighPoint|driver\.stex|hp-fax|JMicron|microsoft\.MDI|print|SoftRAID" <<< $ID && printf '%s\n\t(%s)\n' "${d%/Contents}" "$ID"; done); PR "Extrinsic loadable bundles"; o=$(find /u*/{,*/}lib -type f -exec sh -c 'file -b "$1" | grep -qw shared && ! codesign -v "$1"' {} {} \; -print); PR "Unsigned shared libraries"; o=$(system_profiler SPFontsDataType | egrep "Valid: N|Duplicate: Y" | wc -l); PN "Font problems"; for d in {,/}L*/{La,Priv,Sta}*; do o=$(ls -A "$d"); PR "$d"; done; } 2> /dev/null | pbcopy; echo $'\nStep 1 done'
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Then click anywhere in the Terminal window and paste (command-V). I've tested these instructions only with the Safari web browser. If you use another browser, you may have to press the return key after pasting.
The command may take up to a few minutes to run, depending on how many files you have and the speed of the computer. Wait for the line "Step 1 done" to appear below what you entered. The output of the command will beautomatically copied to the Clipboard. All you have to do is paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-Vagain. Please don't copy anything from the Terminal window. No typing is involved in this step.
Step 2
Remember that you must be logged in as an administrator for this step. Do as in Step 1 with this line:
PR () { [[ "$o" ]] && o=$(sed 's/^/   /' <<< "$o") && printf '\n%s:\n\n%s\n' "$1" "$o"; }; { o=$(sudo launchctl list | sed 1d | awk '!/0x|com\.(apple|openssh|vix\.cron)|org\.(amav|apac|calendarse|cups|dove|isc|ntp|post[fg]|x)/{print $3}'); PR "Loaded extrinsic daemons"; o=$(sudo defaults read com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook); PR "Login hook"; o=$(sudo crontab -l | grep [^[:blank:]]); PR "Root cron tasks"; o=$(syslog -k Sender kernel -k Message CReq 'GPU |hfs: Ru|I/O e|find tok|n Cause: -|NVDA\(|pagin|timed? ?o' | tail -n25 | awk '/:/{$4=""; print}'); PR "Log check"; } 2>&- | pbcopy; echo $'\nStep 2 done'
This time you'll be prompted for your login password, which you do have to type. Nothing will be displayed when you type it. Type it carefully and then press return. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. Heed that warning, but don't post it. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
You can then quit Terminal. Please note:
☞ Steps 1 and 2 are all copy-and-paste — type only your login password when prompted.
☞ When you type your password, you won't see what you're typing.
☞ If you don’t have a password, set one before taking Step 2. If that’s not possible, skip the step.
☞ Step 2 might not produce any output, in which case the Clipboard will be empty. Step 1 will always produce something.
☞ The commands don't change anything, and merely running them will do neither good nor harm.
☞ Remember to post the output of both steps (unless you had to skip Step 2.) It's already in the Clipboard after you complete each step. You don't have to copy it. Just paste into a reply
☞ If any personal information, such as your name or email address, appears in the output of either command, anonymize it before posting. Usually that won't be necessary.
☞ Don't post what you see in the Terminal window. The output is copied automatically to the Clipboard.
☞ Don't paste the output of Step 1 into the Terminal window. Paste it into a reply.

Accessing Windows file share painfully slow in OS X 10.8

Hello!
I work with a company that has one Mac in the network - an iMac 12,2 running OS X 10.8.4. The computer's user needs to work off of the server quite frequently - it's a Windows Server 2008 R2 server - particularly with shared files. Problem is, when she goes to access the shared drives through the Finder, it is painfully slow. It often takes 5-10 seconds just for a directory listing to show, and opening and manipulating files takes significantly longer. I've tried a number of things to try to speed things up, most recently indexing the network drives she uses and installing a Thunderbolt Ethernet Adapter to use instead of the regular wired network card. That hasn't helped though. Has anyone else run into this problem, and if so, how were you able to fix it?
Thanks in advance!

Hello!
I work with a company that has one Mac in the network - an iMac 12,2 running OS X 10.8.4. The computer's user needs to work off of the server quite frequently - it's a Windows Server 2008 R2 server - particularly with shared files. Problem is, when she goes to access the shared drives through the Finder, it is painfully slow. It often takes 5-10 seconds just for a directory listing to show, and opening and manipulating files takes significantly longer. I've tried a number of things to try to speed things up, most recently indexing the network drives she uses and installing a Thunderbolt Ethernet Adapter to use instead of the regular wired network card. That hasn't helped though. Has anyone else run into this problem, and if so, how were you able to fix it?
Thanks in advance!

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