IMac operating really slow

Hi, I have a G5 iMac, which for the last couple of weeks has been operating really slow. I've tried re-starting it, re-setting my Airport, in case it is internet related but it still keeps operating slowly. I get the spinning beach ball while it is thinking and then finally it functions, only to happen again. Occasionally, I get normal operating speed but then it happens again. I'm just going through a software update to see if there's anything I've missed out but is there anyone who is having the same problem, and is there anything anyone can recommend?

Not sure if this is related, Brett, but Apple have just released a new KB page detailing a problem which can occur when using some 3rd party VPN software under OSX 10.4.8:
Issue or symptom
After updating to Mac OS X 10.4.8, if some third-party VPN client software is installed, Activity Monitor may show the AirPort process taking 90% or more of the CPU time, and the computer may seem "slow".
Products affected
Mac OS X 10.4.8
Airport
Solution
Make sure your third-party VPN client software is up-to-date. Contact your network administrator or the manufacturer of your VPN client software.
This document will be updated as more information becomes available.
(from http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304798 )
Not sure if this applies to you, but worth considering.
Regardless, you might want to start up Activity Monitor (in your utility folder), open the "Activity Monitor" window, and then choose "active processes" to see if this, or some other software, is hogging your processor.
Cheers
Rod

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WHY HAS MY APPLE IMAC GONE REALLY SLOW

HI all,
i have a 17 inch imac i gig ram 160 gb hdd
after installing opera (which i have now deleted) my mac has turned really slow
i turn it on then it loads for about 15 minutes..... then it goes into mac and haveto wait another 15 minutes for it to return to normal then only can i use it normally
can nayone help
regrds
shakeel

Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
Let me refer you to an excellent website about maintaining Mac OS X. It also has great troubleshooting tips and ideas. The site is maintained by a regular contributor to the Apple Discussions, Dr. Smoke. The site is the X Lab.
Some of the things that you might try are Repairing Permissions from Apps/Utilities/Disk Utility. Resetting the PRAM. Also making sure that the Cron Scripts have actually been running on your Mac. The X Lab can instruct you in all of these ideas and more.

IMac running really slow

I have recently purchased an iMac (6 months old) and I am running 5 applications most of the time: three browsers (safari, chrome and firefox), MS Word and MS Excel. I do run a lot tabs open on the browsers and leave them on for days (about 12 tabs on each browswer). I have to use word and excel for work and need to leave them open with several documents at a time.
here are my problems... after a while, even when I restart, sites wont load, word wont respond and need to forcequit it, sites are slow and a lot of other problems where the computer will not respond for a few minutes and I am stranded looking at the rainbow wheel. I have a colleague sharing the same space with the same imac doing the same tasks plus using photoshop and illustrator but his imac is working fine. Is it something I should consult with Apple? is it a hardware failure? I also have time machine and from time to time it will give me errors that time machine can't connect to the drive or several other different errors.
I appreciate your input.
Processor: 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory: 8GB
OS: 10.7.4

It really sounds like you're really taxing both the CPU and RAM.
With the description of the way you work with your iMac, it sounds as of you really need a lot more than 8 GBs of RAM.
OS X, alone, needs to a have a working minimum of 3-4 GBs of RAM to function smoothly and efficiently.
Your iMac can take up to 32 GBs of RAM.
I would advise installing another 4-8 GBs of RAM.
Also, is Spotlight still indexing your drives? This can slow things down, also.
Maybe your friend is running his iMac with more RAM?
As a designer, myself, I would put in as much RAM as I can afford in order to get Adobe Creative Suite to run as fast as I can get it to run.
Photoshop, alone can eat up lots up CPU,GPU, RAM and HD resources.

My iMac is really slow and I need advice based on EtreCheck report. Please help?

Problem description:
Have recently found endless errors, crashes and general slowdown on my recently bought iMac Late 2013. I upgraded to Yosemite which seems to kick this off so took it to a local shop to have Mavericks re-installed as Time Machine Backup would not work. I also installed CleanmyMac to adios the trash and Memory Clean to monitor the Mac State. After running Memory Clean my memory drops continuously until about 1Gb and then Memory Clean kicks in again. The Activity Monitor shows a Kernel Task at the top of the list which, when clicked on, lists a Fault Figure which also is ever increasing. Please help?
EtreCheck version: 2.0.11 (98)
Report generated 26 November 2014 18:01:58 GMT
Hardware Information: ℹ️
iMac (27-inch, Late 2013) (Verified)
iMac - model: iMac14,2
1 3.4 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 4-core
8 GB RAM Upgradeable
BANK 0/DIMM0
4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok
BANK 1/DIMM0
4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok
BANK 0/DIMM1
empty empty empty empty
BANK 1/DIMM1
empty empty empty empty
Bluetooth: Good - Handoff/Airdrop2 supported
Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac
Video Information: ℹ️
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 775M - VRAM: 2048 MB
iMac 2560 x 1440
System Software: ℹ️
OS X 10.9.5 (13F34) - Uptime: 5:8:21
Disk Information: ℹ️
APPLE HDD ST1000DM003 disk0 : (1 TB)
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 999.35 GB (841.57 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
USB Information: ℹ️
Western Digital My Passport 07B8 2 TB
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
EFI (disk2s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
Main BackUp (disk2s2) /Volumes/Main BackUp : 2.00 TB (830.61 GB free)
Western Digital My Passport 0730 1 TB
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
WFAW (disk1s1) /Volumes/WFAW : 1.00 TB (130.61 GB free)
Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Apple Inc. MacBook Air SuperDrive
Thunderbolt Information: ℹ️
Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Gatekeeper: ℹ️
Mac App Store and identified developers
Launch Agents: ℹ️
[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist Support
[running] com.adobe.AdobeCreativeCloud.plist Support
[running] com.bitdefender.antivirusformac.plist Support
[loaded] org.macosforge.xquartz.startx.plist Support
Launch Daemons: ℹ️
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist Support
[loaded] com.bitdefender.AuthHelperTool.plist Support
[loaded] com.bitdefender.upgrade.plist Support
[loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2.Agent.plist Support
[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist Support
[loaded] org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx.plist Support
User Launch Agents: ℹ️
[loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2Helper.diskSpaceWatcher.plist Support
[loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2Helper.scheduledScan.plist Support
[loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2Helper.trashWatcher.plist Support
[loaded] com.valvesoftware.steamclean.plist Support
User Login Items: ℹ️
iTunesHelper ApplicationHidden (/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app)
Moveslink2 Application (/Applications/Moveslink2.app)
CleanMyDrive Application (/Applications/CleanMyDrive.app)
Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
AdobeAAMDetect: Version: AdobeAAMDetect 2.0.0.0 - SDK 10.7 Support
FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 15.0.0.239 - SDK 10.6 Support
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
Flash Player: Version: 15.0.0.239 - SDK 10.6 Support
Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.4.0 - SDK 10.6 Support
Silverlight: Version: 5.1.30317.0 - SDK 10.6 Support
Safari Extensions: ℹ️
TrafficLight
3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️
Flash Player Support
Time Machine: ℹ️
Skip System Files: NO
Auto backup: YES
Destinations:
MyPassport [Local]
Total size: 2.00 TB
Total number of backups: 46
Oldest backup: 2014-06-15 15:59:27 +0000
Last backup: 2014-11-26 18:00:11 +0000
Size of backup disk: Excellent
Backup size 2.00 TB > (Disk size 0 B X 3)
Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️
      3% WindowServer
      3% mds
      1% fontd
      0% AppleSpell
      0% ocspd
Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️
335 MB BDLDaemon
241 MB Safari
189 MB com.apple.IconServicesAgent
103 MB WindowServer
94 MB Finder
Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️
4.37 GB Free RAM
2.16 GB Active RAM
1.12 GB Inactive RAM
938 MB Wired RAM
733 MB Page-ins
0 B Page-outs

The main cause of slow system is due to certain heavy applications running in the background
We agree on that.
or because of duplicate and hidden files.
Files visible, hidden, the same as other files, do not do anything, unless they happen to cause the disk to be completely or nearly full. Otherwise they are just 1's and 0's. They are passive (speaking as a paid file system developer).
These files can't be easily removed.
If they can't be removed, then they are essential to the proper operation of the operating system (such as /private/var/vm/swapfie(s)). And if you have huge swapfile(s), then it is an indication of running too many RAM hungry apps concurrently, or a Mac that could use more RAM.
So I think using speed up Mac software is the best solution.
Hang around these forums long enough and you will see that in many cases those speed up, clean up, anti-malware apps "ARE" the "certain heavy applications running in the background" to use your own words. It has been the experience of the long time forum contributors that once these 3rd party utilities are removed, most performance issues and system panics go away.

My imac is really slow after installing Mavericks

I have read a number of threads on this and tried re-installing, starting in safe mode (no difference). I have run Etrecheck and here is the result:
EtreCheck version: 1.9.12 (48)
Report generated 10 July 2014 08:38:19 BST
Hardware Information:
iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2009) (Verified)
iMac - model: iMac10,1
1 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2 cores
4 GB RAM
Video Information:
NVIDIA GeForce 9400 - VRAM: 256 MB
iMac 1920 x 1080
System Software:
OS X 10.9.4 (13E28) - Uptime: 0 days 14:14:28
Disk Information:
ST3500418ASQ disk0 : (500.11 GB)
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 465.35 GB (182.11 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
BOOTCAMP (disk0s4) /Volumes/BOOTCAMP: 33.89 GB (20.41 GB free)
HL-DT-ST DVDRW GA11N
USB Information:
Apple Inc. Built-in iSight
Apple Internal Memory Card Reader
TOSHIBA TOSHIBA USB 3.5"-HDD 500.11 GB
EFI (disk2s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
Time Machine Backups (disk2s2) /Volumes/Time Machine Backups: 499.76 GB (9.75 GB free)
Canon MP270 series
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Genius USB Optical Mouse
GASIA USB KB V11
Apple Inc. BRCM2046 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Gatekeeper:
Mac App Store and identified developers
Kernel Extensions:
[not loaded] arcana.PRAM (6.0) Support
[loaded] com.Cycling74.driver.Soundflower (1.5.1) Support
[not loaded] com.Wacom.iokit.TabletDriver (4.7.9) Support
[not loaded] com.tomtom.driver.UsbEthernetGadget (1.0.0d1) Support
Startup Items:
ArcanaStartupSound: Path: /Library/StartupItems/ArcanaStartupSound
Launch Daemons:
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist Support
Launch Agents:
[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist Support
[loaded] com.adobe.CS5ServiceManager.plist Support
User Launch Agents:
[loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist Support
[loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist Support
[failed] com.akamai.single-user-client.plist Support
[failed] com.google.GoogleContactSyncAgent.plist Support
[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist Support
[running] com.spotify.webhelper.plist Support
User Login Items:
iTunesHelper
PsstDaemon
Radioshift Helper (2570229054)
Rogue Amoeba Schedule Helper
TuneSync Server
Dropbox
TomTomHOMERunner
EvernoteHelper
Internet Plug-ins:
JavaAppletPlugin: Version: 14.9.0 - SDK 10.7 Check version
FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 14.0.0.145 - SDK 10.6 Support
EPPEX Plugin: Version: 3.0.0.0 Support
Flash Player: Version: 14.0.0.145 - SDK 10.6 Support
AdobePDFViewer: Version: 9.5.5 Support
GarminGPSControl: Version: 3.0.1.0 Release - SDK 10.4 Support
Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
Google Earth Web Plug-in: Version: 6.1 Support
Silverlight: Version: 5.1.20125.0 - SDK 10.6 Support
iPhotoPhotocast: Version: 7.0
Safari Extensions:
Gmail Menu: Version: 1.03
ResizeMe: Version: 1.0
Save to Pocket: Version: 1.8.3
Alexa Site Stats: Version: 1.1.1
CustomSearch: Version: 1.4
Gentle Status Bar: Version: 1.32
Audio Plug-ins:
BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9
AirPlay: Version: 2.0 - SDK 10.9
AppleAVBAudio: Version: 203.2 - SDK 10.9
iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9
iTunes Plug-ins:
Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.4 - SDK 10.9
User Internet Plug-ins:
Google Earth Web Plug-in: Version: 7.1 Support
3rd Party Preference Panes:
Akamai NetSession Preferences Support
Flash Player Support
Growl Support
MacFUSE Support
MouseZoom Support
MusicManager Support
Pen Tablet Support
Time Machine:
Mobile backups: OFF
Auto backup: YES
Volumes being backed up:
Macintosh HD: Disk size: 433.40 GB Disk used: 263.79 GB
Destinations:
Time Machine Backups [Local] (Last used)
Total size: 465.44 GB
Total number of backups: 113
Oldest backup: 2011-11-09 00:06:32 +0000
Last backup: 2014-07-09 14:22:42 +0000
Size of backup disk: Too small
Backup size 465.44 GB < (Disk used 263.79 GB X 3)
Time Machine details may not be accurate.
All volumes being backed up may not be listed.
Top Processes by CPU:
      3% WindowServer
      2% Dropbox
      0% fontd
      0% Google Chrome
      0% Radioshift Helper
Top Processes by Memory:
266 MB mds_stores
176 MB Google Chrome
168 MB Mail
131 MB Finder
72 MB Google Chrome Helper
Virtual Memory Information:
210 MB Free RAM
1.23 GB Active RAM
1.03 GB Inactive RAM
624 MB Wired RAM
20.57 GB Page-ins
120 MB Page-outs
Any help would be really appreciated!

1. This procedure is a diagnostic test. It changes nothing, for better or worse, and therefore will not, in itself, solve the problem. But with the aid of the test results, the solution may take a few minutes, instead of hours or days.
Don't be put off merely by the seeming complexity of these instructions. The process is much less complicated than the description. You do harder tasks with the computer all the time.
2. If you don't already have a current backup, back up all data before doing anything else. The backup is necessary on general principle, not because of anything in the test procedure. Backup is always a must, and when you're having any kind of trouble with the computer, you may be at higher than usual risk of losing data, whether you follow these instructions or not.
There are ways to back up a computer that isn't fully functional. Ask if you need guidance.
3. Below are instructions to run a UNIX shell script, a type of program. All it does is to collect information about the state of the computer. That information goes nowhere unless you choose to share it. However, you should be cautious about running any kind of program (not just a shell script) at the behest of a stranger. If you have doubts, search this site for other discussions in which this procedure has been followed without any report of ill effects. If you can't satisfy yourself that the instructions are safe, don't follow them. Ask for other options.
Here's a summary of what you need to do, if you choose to proceed:
☞ Copy a line of text in this window to the Clipboard.
☞ Paste into the window of another application.
☞ Wait for the test to run. It usually takes a few minutes.
☞ Paste the results, which will have been copied automatically, back into a reply on this page.
The sequence is: copy, paste, wait, paste again. You don't need to copy a second time. Details follow.4. You may have started the computer in "safe" mode. Preferably, these steps should be taken in “normal” mode, under the conditions in which the problem is reproduced. If the system is now in safe mode and works well enough in normal mode to run the test, restart as usual. If you can only test in safe mode, do that.
5. If you have more than one user, and the one affected by the problem is not an administrator, then please run the test twice: once while logged in as the affected user, and once as an administrator. The results may be different. The user that is created automatically on a new computer when you start it for the first time is an administrator. If you can't log in as an administrator, test as the affected user. Most personal Macs have only one user, and in that case this section doesn’t apply. Don't log in as root.
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Hello - I am new here. My 2011 imac is really slow and keeps showing the spinning ball in all applications. Is there a way to diagnose what is wrong? I have lots of space left. Thank you

Hello. I am new here and have suddenly developed problems with my 2011 imac. Mac osx 10.7.5
The spinning ball keeps coming up with everything I do and eveverything is slow. Even my keyboard and mouse are acting up. I have 12gb memory and lots of storage space left.
Thank you

Janis500 wrote:
Thank you so much. I will do that in the morning before I take any further steps. I really appreciate your help.
J
If you try to access Spotlight in the morning and it is still indexing, reindex it by following these steps.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2409
Sometimes the index is corrupted, or something it is trying to index is, and it hangs up like that.
Re-indexing may free that up and let it work correctly.

My Imac got REALLY SLOW.....and the Dock got none of my stuff in it!!!

Starting a few days ago my Imac started to take forever to boot................I checked the startup items and there was nothing there!
I didn't install anything new....and yet the whole system got slower and slower....
This morning I turned it on and guess what..........none of my Dock items were there anymore...the Dock was as if I had just bought the computer with all the defaults and none of the programs I had there!!! and ever since it finished booting up which took about 15 minutes....I tryed to go online and every time I click on something it takes forever to load, it took 8 minutes to open Safari!!!!!
Its like nothing works..I have a 1GB of RAM in it plus the 512MB of Ram that came with it which for some reason it is not reading...I saw...when I added that new Ram.....
But...why in the world my Dock got screwd up.....and why am I so **** slow? I don't get it!
HELP PLEASE!!!
Thank you,
L.
Imac Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Hi L,
First thing, if it were me, if Mac is not reading the extra Ram, take it out and see how your machine performs. If it works significantly better, try reinstalling Ram by carefully but firmly seating it. Reboot machine and see how it performs. If it sees extra Ram but is still performing poorly, I think you have bad Ram and need it replaced. If your machine does not see Ram, just remove it, this is important. Bad Ram can cause many many things that you would think could not happen.
Booting up 15 minutes or Safari 8 minutes is not nearly normal. If you have an intel Mac you can also try reset SMC or if you have iMac G5 you can reset SMU, read articles thouroghly and understand...
Let us know what happens, Good luck, Rick
iMac G5 iSight 20" - 30G iPOD in Slimming Black - Mac OS X (10.4.7) - HP Pav 15" WS and Toshiba Sat 17" WS LP's - Canon 20D & A620

Imac runs really slow

imac doesn't run that well

As you can see, i have nothing running and still the memory usage is over 4 gigs on Mavericks.
Yesterdag i upgraded my mac to 12gb of RAM memory.
Before my update and upgrade my Mac was running on ML and it was just running fine on 4 gb RAM.
And i had a lot of apps open. After the update, my Mac went to freeze all the time and the coloured ball was all the time on my screen.
I also have a MBA and this one is also going slow after installing Mavericks.
I hope that Apple finds its way back, because now im not amused of it.
I called AppleCare because of the 90 days help they give because of the update. And they also couldn't help me out. The employer who helped me, told me that he didn't heared it before and that my complain was the first.
After he saying this, i told him to look at those forums Apple supports. Maybe he could learn something of it.
If they don't solve these problems im going to downgrade my iMac and MBA to ML.
Hope that someone has got an solution or finds it pretty soon.
Kind Regards

Does anyones iMac/macbook seem slower since upgrade to ios5 on the iphone/ipod.

When I upgraded my iphone to IOS5 my imac seemed REALLY slow. It even locked up several times. I upgraded the RAM to 4GB but that didn't hlep much. I did my kids Ipod and the same thing happened. Could it be a issue with the processes during the upgrade? How do I take care of it?

same problem here except that I can download other podcasts - have you found any solutions?

How do you fix a really slow iMac?

Ho dow you fix a really slow iMac?

More details please! Slow doing what: Web browsing"? Opening files? Starting up? Help us help you.
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My iMac is running REALLY slow - could my hard disc be dying?

I have a 27" iMac with a Core i7 chip and 8GB of RAM.
It has always worked really fast with absolutely everything I have tried with it.
It worked fast in Snow Leopard. I upgraded it to Lion in September and it still worked fast (though a tiny bit slower perhaps than Snow Leopard).
In the last week, the machine's speed has slowed to an absolute crawl and I am almost constantly getting the spinning beach ball.
By a crawl, I mean that opening iTunes can take five minutes. Opening the Applications folder inside Finder can take five minutes. During times of this slowness, the spinning beach ball animates and I can move the mouse cursor, but I cannot get any response from the machine.
The machine is so slow that it is basically unuseable - I cannot wait five minutes to open a document!
What is really odd is that the computer will be really slow for 4-5 minutes, and then for perhaps 40 seconds or so I will get maybe one minute where things work at normal speed, before the speed drops back to a crawl.
Even restarting the computer takes an age.
My theory is that something in the computer has malfunctioned - either the motherboard or the hard disc.
I have run a few disc utilities (Disk Utility, Apple Hardware Diagnostic, TechTool 5), and the SMART status of the hard disc appears to be good and all reports check back successfully - although they all take longer than I'd expect. Whether that means the hard disc is really fine or not, I'm not clear.
I had one other hard disc die on me once, and that just died and was gone, but if my hard disc is dying then the problem it is showing is intermittent, i.e. it is only working part of the time.
At present I am making a backup of the iMac hard disc by having booted the iMac in Firewire Target Disk mode and manually copying files across. However, so far it has only managed 1GB of about 432GB and is estimating that it will take 2 days to complete the task.
Has anybody got any advice - is the hard disc or the motherboard a likely culprit?
The machine is under warranty at least, but I can't figure out whether to drag the machine into an Apple Store, or to phone AppleCare and get them to pick it up. If the machine would be repaired while I waited at the Apple Store then that would be great but I doubt this would happen.
Any advice?
P.S. I checked for runaway processes... nothing to find in Activity Monitor. CPU is about 5% max. Lots of free RAM. Hard disc is only half full.

mccltd wrote:
How do you load lion onto an exteranl disk and boot from it as I would like to give that a try.
I presume its an external usb drive?
thanks
Hi,
I used an external hard disc - Western Digital MyBook 500GB drive.
All you do is run the Lion installer, which you can redownload from the Mac App Store if you've bought it. As part of the Lion installer it asks which drive you want to install to.
To save having to redownload the Lion installer every time, once the download has completed from the Mac App Store, but before you have run the installation process, you can extract the disc image and retain it for future use (if you don't extract the disc image, then it gets deleted at the end of the installation process and you'd have to redownload it again next time).

Finder is really slow ( 15 sec.) after mavericks update on brand new iMac 27" WITH fusion drive...

When looking up files it's fine, but when trying to save or open anything through ANY program, i.e. Adobe CS6 programs, Microsoft Word, but also Apple software, finder is really slow (15 sec. or more of the same spinning beach ball) after the OSX Mavericks update on my brand new iMac 27" WITH fusion drive... This ***** really bad because it totally disturbs the smooth workflow I bought the iMac for in the first place...
Any suggestions?
Already tried 'clearing the plist file' through terminal; didn't work... Rebooting (obviously), didn't work.
Will there be a fix soon?
It's costing me way to much time waiting for the finder to show it's content when working.
Any official word from Apple on this?

I had a similar problem. Tried repairing disk permissions, tried cleaning up with onyx and applejack with no luck. Finally what did work was simply starting up in safe mode (hold shift key down after restart) and it sorted itself out
Hope this works for you

Etrecheck on a really slow unresponsive iMac 2010

Hi there,
I've tried updating software and hope I haven't shot myself in the foot installing Yosemite but my Mac is running really badly. It just isn't really working. It's taken me 90 mins to turn it on, install etrecheck and post this. Hope you guys can help!
Problem description:
iMac running super slow an generally unresponsive. Like a 1994 PC
EtreCheck version: 2.1.8 (121)
Report generated 5 March 2015 11:30:09 GMT
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Hardware Information: ℹ️
    iMac (27-inch, Late 2009) (Technical Specifications)
    iMac - model: iMac11,1
    1 2.66 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 4-core
    4 GB RAM Upgradeable
        BANK 0/DIMM0
            2 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok
        BANK 1/DIMM0
            2 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok
        BANK 0/DIMM1
            Empty
        BANK 1/DIMM1
            Empty
    Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported
    Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
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        iMac 2560 x 1440
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        Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / : 999.35 GB (182.79 GB free) - 100 errors
        Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
    HL-DT-ST DVDRW GA11N
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    Apple Internal Memory Card Reader
    Apple Inc. BRCM2046 Hub
        Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
    Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
    Apple Inc. Built-in iSight
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    Mac App Store and identified developers
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    [loaded]    com.digidesign.iokit.DigiDal (8.0.4f2) [Click for support]
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Startup Items: ℹ️
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    DigidesignLoader: Path: /Library/StartupItems/DigidesignLoader
    PACESupport: Path: /Library/StartupItems/PACESupport
    Startup items are obsolete in OS X Yosemite
Launch Agents: ℹ️
    [not loaded]    com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist [Click for support]
    [running]    com.epson.Epson_Low_Ink_Reminder.launcher.plist [Click for support]
    [loaded]    com.epson.esua.launcher.plist [Click for support]
    [running]    com.epson.eventmanager.agent.plist [Click for support]
    [running]    com.flipvideo.FlipShare.AutoRun.plist [Click for support]
    [loaded]    com.hp.quick.connect.software.agent.plist [Click for support]
    [loaded]    com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist [Click for support]
    [running]    com.rim.BBAlbumArtCacher.plist [Click for support]
    [running]    com.rim.BBLaunchAgent.plist [Click for support]
Launch Daemons: ℹ️
    [loaded]    com.adobe.fpsaud.plist [Click for support]
    [running]    com.digidesign.elevenrack.helper.plist [Click for support]
    [running]    com.digidesign.fwfamily.helper.plist [Click for support]
    [running]    com.flipvideo.FlipShareServer.launchd.plist [Click for support]
    [loaded]    com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist [Click for support]
    [running]    com.rim.BBDaemon.plist [Click for support]
    [loaded]    PACESupport.plist [Click for support]
User Launch Agents: ℹ️
    [loaded]    com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist [Click for support]
    [loaded]    com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist [Click for support]
    [loaded]    com.google.keystone.agent.plist [Click for support]
    [running]    com.spotify.webhelper.plist [Click for support]
    [not loaded]    jp.co.canon.Inkjet_Extended_Survey_Agent.plist [Click for support]
User Login Items: ℹ️
    GrowlHelperApp    UNKNOWN (missing value)
    iTunesHelper    UNKNOWN Hidden (missing value)
    Dropbox    Application (/Applications/Dropbox.app)
    AdobeResourceSynchronizer    Application Hidden (/Applications/Adobe Reader.app/Contents/Support/AdobeResourceSynchronizer.app)
    Canon IJ Network Scanner Selector EX    Application Hidden (/Applications/Canon Utilities/IJ Network Scanner Selector EX/Canon IJ Network Scanner Selector EX.app)
    TomTomHOMERunner    Application Hidden (/Users/[redacted]/Library/Application Support/TomTom HOME/TomTomHOMERunner.app)
Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
    JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 8 Update 25 Check version
    FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 16.0.0.305 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]
    EPPEX Plugin: Version: 3.0.5.0 [Click for support]
    AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 10.1.13 [Click for support]
    AdobePDFViewer: Version: 10.1.13 [Click for support]
    Flash Player: Version: 16.0.0.305 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]
    Default Browser: Version: 600 - SDK 10.10
    QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
    iLokClientHelper: Version: 3.4 [Click for support]
    Silverlight: Version: 5.1.10411.0 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]
    iPhotoPhotocast: Version: 7.0
User internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
    Google Earth Web Plug-in: Version: 7.1 [Click for support]
Safari Extensions: ℹ️
    AdBlock
Audio Plug-ins: ℹ️
    Digidesign CoreAudio: Version: 8.0.4 [Click for support]
3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️
    3ivx MPEG-4 [Click for support]
    Digidesign Eleven Rack [Click for support]
    DigidesignMbox2 [Click for support]
    Digidesign Mbox 2 Pro [Click for support]
    Flash Player [Click for support]
    Java [Click for support]
Time Machine: ℹ️
    Skip System Files: NO
    Auto backup: NO - Auto backup turned off
    Volumes being backed up:
        Macintosh HD: Disk size: 999.35 GB Disk used: 816.56 GB
    Destinations:
        Hudson Fall [Local]
        Total size: 0 B
        Total number of backups: 0
        Oldest backup: -
        Last backup: -
        Size of backup disk: Too small
            Backup size 0 B < (Disk used 816.56 GB X 3)
Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️
        17%    WindowServer
        11%    Dock
         6%    SubmitDiagInfo
         2%    lsregister
         0%    coreservicesd
Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️
    554 MB    Finder
    228 MB    Safari
    129 MB    Dock
    107 MB    mds_stores
    91 MB    com.apple.WebKit.WebContent
Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️
    252 MB    Free RAM
    1.92 GB    Active RAM
    1.56 GB    Inactive RAM
    556 MB    Wired RAM
    1.92 GB    Page-ins
    233 KB    Page-outs
Diagnostics Information: ℹ️
    Mar 5, 2015, 10:41:21 AM    Self test - passed
    Mar 2, 2015, 12:59:21 PM    /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Kernel_2015-03-02-125921_[redacted].panic [Click for details]

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I have a Belkin F5D9630-4 router and have WPA security on it. The mac can connect to the network but when i try and surf the web the connection is really slow and most of the time just times out.
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