Imac very slow

Hello,
My wife bought a imac (intel) almost 3 years ago for her business. This mac has been used on a day-to-day basis by her assistant. So far, everything was ok and we experienced no difficulties at all. But for a reason I haven't identified so far, since one month, the mac doesn't start properly and when it finally does, the delay to access any task is outrageously long.
Anybody has an idea about what the problem might be or a serie of tests to perform to identify it ?
Thks in advance,

Alexandre RICHER wrote:
Ok so I performed the disk utility to check the SMART and the test was passed without any problem. I then verified using the AHT test and ran it twice with the same result : error code : 4HDD/11/40000000:SATA(0,0) !
I did my homework and found out that it was announcing a disk failure and that I should create a bootable backup.
Can you explain me how to do so as I've understand that I should replace my HD asap.
Thanks in advance and thank you for the previous procedure as I can better understand what is happening right now.
Best regards,
You shoudl have been creating backups well before this. Before you do ANYTHING else buy an External HD (they are relatively inexpensive) and using Disk Utility format it to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) GUID. Next use Time Machine to backup the HD, you will find a tutorial for TM at Time Machine Backup basics

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    I have an iMac that runs quite slowly after a few hours use, especially when using Photoshop and other Adobe software. What happens is, the processor gets completely swamped with "System" tasks (shown in Activity Monitor as red bars), the result being that "User" tasks are slow and the mouse jumps around the screen, rendering the computer almost useless. I've done a bunch of disk utilities including Leopard's onboard Disk Utility as well as OnyX, and although some errors were found, it was nothing serious. And after repairing, problems persisted.
    Now, here's the thing. When I open Console, most of the errors are Adobe-related (mostly Photoshop and Dreamweaver). And I just ran a "Validate Fonts" check in Font Book, and found 15 fonts that have "serious errors, do not use".
    So, I've often heard that Leopard, Adobe CS3, and corrupted fonts are a lethal combination. Not that I'm asking anyone to diagnose my problems from across the world, but does this sound like it could be the root of my problem? And if so, what's the proper process for removing the dangerous fonts so they can't ruin anything? Do I just delete them, or do corrupted fonts cause deeper problems which might necessitate reinstallation?
    Thanks!

    See Font Management in OS X and then these:
    http://images.apple.com/pro/pdf/L311277AFontTTv4.pdf
    http://www.creativetechs.com/tips/SVC-fonts/Fonts-2007-SVC.pdf
    http://dl.extensis.com/downloads/SC/EN/P/FontsBest_Practices_inOSX.pdf
    http://www.macworld.com/article/44942/2005/05/julyworkingmac.html
    BTW, turn off the bad fonts with Font Book and see if the performance returns to normal.

  • Lightroom 5.6 Cropping on new 5K iMac very slow

    Upgraded to new 27" 5K iMac with 4.0GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, AMD Radeon R9 M295X 4GB GDDR5 and 32GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM. Processing photos from last night's football game and when cropping photos Lightroom is terribly slow. Any suggestions.

    Upgraded to new 27" 5K iMac with 4.0GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, AMD Radeon R9 M295X 4GB GDDR5 and 32GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM. Processing photos from last night's football game and when cropping photos Lightroom is terribly slow. Any suggestions.

  • Intel imac - very slow wireless

    Hi guys,
    I am having trouble with the speed over my local network. I have the iMac dual booting. When i am in windows xp my speed is just fine (a few mbs a sec). However when i am running osx and i try to transfer files across the network it goes around 400k a sec for example.
    It is way too slow. Also when i turn off the wpa then the speed is more like in winxp in osx. But i want some encryption.
    I am running a belkin F5D7633au4A.
    OS X has all the updates available.
    Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
    Thanks
    James

    I've got the same sorts of problems with my new iMac. I can get it going at about 500kB/sec, in comparison my iBook in the same spot gets about 1.5 MB/sec or so. That's with WPA2 turned on with both.
    So, I'm thinking this is working an awful lot like when I'd replaced the memory in my iBook and didn't quite get the airport card's antenna wire plugged in right. Perhaps the worker plugging in the antenna cables didn't get it quite right and the antenna isn't plugged in completely.
    It's definitely the iMac, as my iBook works fine with the network setup. It's working okay for surfing, and most of the time with AirTunes it works, though I've heard a few dropouts from the dodgy networking.
    It's probably time to pick up the phone and call in a ticket to Apple.

  • IMac very slow after upgrading to Yosemite

    Hi,
    Can you help me in optimising my iMac?
    I've upgraded to Yosemite (what a mistake!) and now the videos on the net are endlessly charging, my track pad is not that responsive and my iMac is soo slow! Please help me.
    thank you

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    Don't be put off by the 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. As I wrote above, it changes nothing. It doesn't send or receive any data on the network. All it does is to generate a human-readable report on the state of the computer. That report goes nowhere unless you choose to share it. If you prefer, you can act on it yourself without disclosing the contents to me or anyone else.
    You should be wondering whether you can believe me, and whether it's safe to run a program at the behest of a stranger. In general, no, it's not safe and I don't encourage it.
    In this case, however, there are a couple of ways for you to decide whether the program is safe without having to trust me. First, you can read it. Unlike an application that you download and click to run, it's transparent, so anyone with the necessary skill can verify what it does.
    You may not be able to understand the script yourself. But variations of the script have been posted on this website thousands of times over a period of years. The site is hosted by Apple, which does not allow it to be used to distribute harmful software. Any one of the millions of registered users could have read the script and raised the alarm if it was harmful. Then I would not be here now and you would not be reading this message.
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    ☞ Paste the results, which will have been copied automatically, back into a reply on this page.
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        ZoomUsPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.8 Support
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            Total size: 0 B
            Total number of backups: 0
            Oldest backup: -
            Last backup: -
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             1%    firefox
             0%    mds_stores
    Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️
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        47 MB    mds_stores
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    Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️
        249 MB    Free RAM
        892 MB    Active RAM
        1.03 GB    Inactive RAM
        688 MB    Wired RAM
        4.81 GB    Page-ins
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