Laptop stalls and is extremely slow

What do i do, my Macbook pro stalls while click on an icon and other things. It also stall occasionally.

It's possible that you don't have enough free disk space or RAM, or you've installed a program that is destabilizing your system. If you run EtreCheck (http://etresoft.com/etrecheck) and post its output here, we can see your computer specs. Its output would be meaningful to many of us helping out here.

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I just bought a 2 gig USB, AND ITS EXTREMELY SLOW HEEEELP!!

i just bought a 2 gig usb and its EXTREMELY slow, it takes like 1 hr to transfer 700 mb, thats ridiculously slow, is there anything i can change for it to become faster?
its wierd, i can tranfser files from the usb to my mac pretty quick but from my mac to the usb it takes a LONG time, any ideas?
PLEASE HELP

Extended Hard Drive Preparation
1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder. If you need to reformat your startup volume, then you must 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 Installer menu (Utilities menu for Tiger or Leopard.)
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Set the number of partitions from the dropdown menu (use 1 partition unless you wish to make more.) Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID (only required for Intel Macs) then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the volume(s) mount on the Desktop.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.

FCP 6.0.1 Running and previewing extremly slow

Ever since I upgraded to 6.0.1 FCP is running extremly slow.
In my current project, I brought in a HDV QT.mov that needed to be Chroma Keyed and color adjusted. Previewing the chroma keyed file looks horrible (all jagged) unless I render it. That takes time. Then I added a piece of stock DV footage under that, blurred the background and it played back like crap until I rendered it. More time. And so on.
I can't make any adjustment and see how it looks without rendering.
When I was working in 5.1 FCP I was able to add all type of files and zip right through them pretty much. Now I can't seem to get my settings right or something...so as I apply different effects or filters I can never see on the fly how it looks without rendering it first. Then of course...if it's not right...I tweak it again but can't see how that looks until I render it again.
All my video files resides on a RAID that I created from 2 of my internal drives and it also is my scratch & render disk.
It's eating my lunch on production time.
Any suggestions Please.

You could try setting the render in the sequences you work with to ProRes. Found in that sequence setting's video processing tab.
But the real fix is to not work in HDV at all. If you have an Intel mac, a capture card like the Kona LHe card will transcode your HDV directly to ProRes... or AJA's Io HD (at the high end of this workflow) will transcode the HDV to ProRes on board the box itself... The Io will take your HDMI signal directly from the camera and transcode it to anything. It starts shipping any day now.
You're a brave soul attempting chroma keys with HDV... they are nigh on impossible to look good. But ProRes will make the rendering times go way down, and give you more real time playback of effects.
Jerry

Help! MacBook Pro only boots in Safe Mode and runs extremely slow (bonus: happened in Brazil and there are no Apple stores here - I need you guys!)

It's a MBP mid 2010. Last year it had some problems and an Apple authorised shop changed the HD and upgraded the OS from Snow Leopard to Lion. After that it seemed fine. Recently it started getting very slow and apps (e.g. Chrome, Flash) would crash. At some point it seemed stuck so I gave it a hard shutdown - bad idea. After that it would only boot in Safe Mode. I ran repar disk and repair permissions from the Disk Utility and it booted normally again but extremely slow. I upgraded to OS X 10.8.2, but didn't solve it. I tried booting with Command D to have a hardware diagnostic - it wouldn't boot and now it only boots in Safe Mode.
All data is backed and I have an external HD (but not an OS X Disc). Ready to anything. Help please!
Utility Disk Logs
Repairing permissions for “Macintosh HD”
Group differs on “Library/Java”; should be 0; group is 80.
Permissions differ on “Library/Java”; should be drwxr-xr-x ; they are drwxrwxr-x .
Repaired “Library/Java”
Warning: SUID file “System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent” has been modified and will not be repaired.
Permissions differ on “System/Library/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/CoreGraphics”; should be lrwxrwxrwx ; they are lrwxr-xr-x .
Repaired “System/Library/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/CoreGraphics”
Permissions differ on “System/Library/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/Resources”; should be lrwxrwxrwx ; they are lrwxr-xr-x .
Repaired “System/Library/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/Resources”
Permissions differ on “System/Library/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/Versions/Current”; should be lrwxrwxrwx ; they are lrwxr-xr-x .
Repaired “System/Library/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/Versions/Current”
Permissions repair complete
Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”
Checking file systemPerforming live verification.
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Checking extents overflow file.
Checking catalog file.
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking catalog hierarchy.
Checking extended attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
The volume Macintosh HD appears to be OK.
Verifying and repairing partition map for “ST9500325AS Media”
Checking prerequisites
Checking the partition list
Adjusting partition map to fit whole disk as required
Checking for an EFI system partition
Checking the EFI system partition’s size
Checking the EFI system partition’s file system
Checking all HFS data partition loader spaces
Reviewing boot support loaders
Checking Core Storage Physical Volume partitions
Updating Windows boot.ini files as required
The partition map appears to be OK

See this for incompatible log in items
https://support.apple.com/kb/TS4348
Also you can perform #1 and #2 as these occur before Safe Mode, so you just reboot again with Shift key if you need to enter Safe Mode again.
At this point it sounds like your hard drive is dying or some sort of other hardware issue which I can only advise this.
Try to install OS X on a external drive and boot from it, if it's fine then you know your internal boot drive is dying.
Create a data recovery/undelete external boot drive
You can replace your internal drive yourself.
OtherWorld Computing is pretty good about providing drives and tool kits to perform that function yourself.
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IPhoto 9.5.1 and Mavericks extremely slow and hangs

I upgraded to Mavericks and bought iPhoto 9.5.1 upgrade from the app store. Now, iPhoto is extremely slow in loading thumbnails. Once it loads a page or two, then it is fast to scroll the thumbnails it has already loaded, but as you go further back in time, it needs to load all the thumbnails. It eventually hangs. When I reboot the application, it doesn't remember the previous thumbnails and is again extremely slow. This version is way to slow to use and is actually unusable. It also doesn't show any faces in the face collection frames, and when you click on them, it opens up blank outlines, then when you click on these, it brings up the original photo with all the faces named. So the faces feature has major issues as well.
I never had any problem with the previous version of iPhoto. I am using a mid-2010 macbook pro with 8 g of ram. Anyone else have this problem and is Apple aware of the problems with this version?
Thanks.

Where is your iPhoto Library stored? Have you tried rebuilding the Library?

Final Cut loading and running extremely slow...

Hi, I posted about this a few days ago but in my usual panic (work to do!) I didn't make it clear, basically, here's the problem...
I recently had problems with FCP and generally all apps on my machine, when they loaded there was a slight pause when the icon bounced on the dock and I came across all sorts of errors, especially in FCP.
So, I backed up the two internal hard disks, formatted them both, then Raided them as one and put all the information back from the backup.
Since then everything's been working fine, I installed a new fresh copy of Final Cut Studio and I've done a few jobs.
Since finishing my last job last week (which happened to be working with MP4 files, I'm not sure if this is relevant), every time I load FCP now the icon struggles to bounce and it runs extremely slow, even if it's loading a new, blank project. From my last post, someone suggested I delete the render files from the MP4 project, I did so but still no luck.
I've run Disk Utility, Disk Warrior, no hope.
All other apps are fine but when I run FCP it slows the whole machine down, takes forever to force quit and restart until it's back to normal.
Next step is to re-install Final Cut Studio but even if this works, I'd like to have an idea why this has happened??? I've never had problems like this with my mac before.
Thanks, hope this is clear and not too much!
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I recently had problems with FCP and generally all apps on my machine, when they loaded there was
a slight pause when the icon bounced on the dock and I came across all sorts of errors, especially in
FCP. So, I backed up the two internal hard disks, formatted them both, then Raided them as one and
put all the information back from the backup.
It would have been much better to find the problem than to just move it around.
All you have done is create a RAID where none was needed. When you moved your clone back to the RAId, you only moved all of the original problems to a new drive.
You are probably looking at a complete scorched earth-style reformat and reinstallation of everything from scratch since you've done so much damage.
There were a couple of things to try before you made the RAID but they would have been found by asking some questions and searching in the Mac OS10 forums.
bogiesan

Oracle ODBC and DAO extremely slow

Hi
I'm using Microsoft DAO 3.6 with an Oracle ODBC connection (version 9.2) in an VB6 application.
Opening an updateable dynaset is extremely slow, I have measured the performance with Oracle ODBC, Microsoft Oracle ODBC and Microsoft SQL-Server ODBC as follows:
Oracle ODBC: 1952 ms
MS Oracle ODBC: 360 ms
MS SQL-Server ODBC: 40 ms (connection to a MS SQL-Server)
If I use the SQLpassthrough option the result is about 10 ms in all 3 cases, but the dynaset is readonly !
The testing program is as follows:
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Dim wsdata As DAO.Workspace
Dim db As DAO.Database
Dim dbconn As String
Dim rs As DAO.Recordset
Dim start As Long
dbconn = "ODBC;DSN=AdhocitORA;UID=adhocit;PWD=adhocit;"
Set wsdata = DBEngine.Workspaces(0)
Set db = wsdata.OpenDatabase("", False, False, dbconn)
start = timeGetTime
Set rs = db.OpenRecordset("Select * from Afdeling", dbOpenDynaset)
rs.MoveLast
rs.MoveFirst
rs.Close
Set rs = Nothing
MsgBox "Time " & timeGetTime - start
End Sub
Is there any setting in the Oracle ODBC, that need to be adjusted ??
Erling

Why are you doing a moveLast followed by a moveFirst? That's going to force Oracle to retrieve all the records in the recordset. If there are a lot of records, you'll probably see a benefit if you increase the prefetch in the Oracle ODBC DSN configuration.
Justin

Flash player plays online video and games extremely slow

I had my pc reformatted two days ago but prior to that I never had problems like this. playing streaming videos and games gives me extreme pain! especially watching videos on youtube, the video loads fast but it plays like in slow motion and almost frame by frame, so I waited for the video to load completely but when I played it, it's still the same it was annoyingly slow and the play buttonl sometimes is not responding! I install and reinstall the latest version of flash but nothing happened I used IE8 and Mozilla Firefox 3 but both have problems.... but when playing games and videos saved on my hard disk all is very much fine, it plays fast and no fuzz. I also noticed that sites that uses flash also have lags and plays animations slow... I need help badly! Im using windows xp, pentium 4, 2.80 ghz, 512ram and nvidia geForce 7300 SE / 7200 GS internet connection is 100.0mbps dsl connection, I still have 30gb free space on c: so I wonder why is it like that! Please help!

Start Firefox in <u>[[Safe Mode]]</u> to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox (Tools) > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).
*Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode

[solved] Opera,firefox and wget extremely slow (dial-up style)

Hi there,
this is the first time i've tried Arch Linux (64bit), so bare with me please if i've got something stupidly wrong.
The Problem: Both Opera and Firefox are both extremly slow when opening websites. It "feels" like some kind of DNS problem, because the initial time before anything loads is quite long, but after that it goes quite quickly (though still a bit sluggish).
But here's the catch: Ping and loading websites in links work both perfectly fast.
For example accessing google.com in firefox: 40 seconds until page is loaded. In links about 1 second.
Wget seems to suffer from the same problem:
wget google.com
--2008-12-22 03:29:23-- http://google.com/
Resolving google.com...
It just takes a lot of time.
Can anyone help me with this?
Last edited by Deathcrow (2008-12-22 12:48:26)

Ok, i had a hunch:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IPv … the_Module
Adding the line to modprobe.conf solved the Opera and Firefox issues.
The behaviour of wget stays the same. Its still very very slow.
Programs that seem to be affected:
-wget
- ssh
- openntpd
Edit: Alright, the remaining issues were real network issues on my side. They are fixed now.
Last edited by Deathcrow (2008-12-22 12:49:03)

File.copyTo (and copyToAsync) extremely slow on Android. e.g. 1/2 second per tiny XML file. Help?

On first launch, my app copies about 100 tiny XML files from application dir to storage dir. It takes about 35 seconds. That is clearly an issue. It takes about 1/100th of a second on any other platform. I've switched to copyToAsync() so that the user doesn't bail, but still this is like using a dial-up modem! Anyone have any thoughts?

Hi all,
I ran into the same problem on Android: File.copyToAsynch is terribly slow. For 200 files of about 42mb total, it took my Samsung Note 10.1 85 secs to copy from app dir to storage dir! (I have to copy the files to storage dir to be able to read modification date, which is not present in app dir, for an update scheme.)
The solution I ended up with is very simple:
Iterate recursively over folder that you want to copy.
For each file that is not a directory, open the file (using FileStream) , read the bytes, write the bytes to a file on the target directory and close the streams.
This took only 5 secs for the same 200 files / 42 mbs. As this happens only on first run of my app, this is very acceptable.
Here is my code :
var folder:String = "content/";//supply your folder here
var src:File = File.applicationDirectory.resolvePath(folder);
var goal:File = File.applicationStorageDirectory;
var bytes:ByteArray = new ByteArray();
var stream:FileStream = new FileStream();
var iterate:Function = function(dir:File, path:String):void
                                        var files:Array = dir.getDirectoryListing();
                                        for each(var file:File in files)
                                                  if (file.isDirectory)
                                                            iterate(file, path + file.name + File.separator);
                                                  else
                                                            bytes.clear();
                                                            stream.open(file, FileMode.READ);
                                                            stream.readBytes(bytes);
                                                            stream.close();
                                                            var dest:File = goal.resolvePath(path+file.name);
                                                            stream.open(dest, FileMode.WRITE);
                                                            stream.writeBytes(bytes);
                                                            stream.close();
iterate(src, folder);
This could easily be reworked to work asynch of course.
Hope this works for other people as well.
Reinier

Sa520w communications between LAN and DMZ extremely slow

Hello,
I'm new to cisco products and I just bought a sa520w. I'm upgraded to the latest firmware (1.1.65). I set up a ipv4 rule that allows all communications from the LAN to the DMZ (see below from the backup). It works (e.g. all the protocols I use can communicate), but they are all _very_ slow. Secure protocols (i.e. scp) cannot be used because they are just too slow. I'm upgraded to the latest firmware (1.1.65). Does anyone have any experience with this?
Thanks,
Ryan
FirewallRules[2] = {}
FirewallRules[2]["PriorityId"] = "97"
FirewallRules[2]["Action"] = "ACCEPT"
FirewallRules[2]["_ROWID_"] = "97"
FirewallRules[2]["LogLevel"] = "1"
FirewallRules[2]["FromZoneType"] = "SECURE"
FirewallRules[2]["ServiceName"] = "ANY"
FirewallRules[2]["RuleType"] = "SECURE_INSECURE"
FirewallRules[2]["InsertFrmGui"] = "0"
FirewallRules[2]["TypeOfService"] = "0"
FirewallRules[2]["SourceAddressType"] = "0"
FirewallRules[2]["DestinationAddressType"] = "0"
FirewallRules[2]["Status"] = "1"
FirewallRules[2]["SNATAddressType"] = "7"
FirewallRules[2]["ToZoneType"] = "INSECURE"
FirewallRules[2]["DNATPortEnable"] = "0"

Hi Ryan,
Is the slowdown seen on wired LAN users or wireless LAN users or both? If possible, can you provide us the configuration and dbglogs from your SA 520W so that I can forward to the development team to try to reproduce and investigate?
To get the dbglog from SA520W, login through web UI and in the browser enter the following URL:
https://LAN_IP_address_of_SA520W/scgi-bin/dbglog.cgi
These logs will store password, so please remove any sensitive information and passwords. Also if you are not comfortable posting the dbglog on the community, you can send it directly to me through private message.
Best regards,
Julio

Acrobat 9 Reader and Pro extremely slow when loading.

Machine: Dell Precision T3500 with an Quad Core Intel® Xeon® W3540 2.93GHz, 8M L3, 4.8GT/s Turbo processor with Windows XP Pro 32-bit and 4GB RAM NECC 1066Mhz installed.
When installing, uninstalling, restarting, reinstalling Acrobat 9 Reader and Pro, or Acrobat 9.2 Reader and Pro, and upon opening a PDF double-clicked on opens Acrobat as expected but it would take an incredibly long time to open the PDF. Opening the application and then going to File, Open also recreates the effect. When the PDF opens, you can see vector drawings appear line by line as if running on a really old machine like a Pentium II and having the computer pause like as if it has frozen up until after waiting a minute or two. During that time, Windows XP is unresponsive until after waiting for the PDF file to load. Diffferent varieties of PDF with simple one-page text to complex PDF's with scanned, vector and hundreds of pages of text has both recreated the frozen in time effect. And when scrolling to different pages within a PDF, the scrolling is choppy, jerky, and at times, pauses to have drawings to appear.
In the past, applications behaving erratically in this fashion was traced down to the software incompatible with HyperThreading and multiple processors. Does anyone know if this might be the case with Xeon processor listed above or similar hardware? Has anyone else experience this? Information about a possible issue mentioned above after searching produced no hits both at Adobe or out there.
Thanks in advance.

Thanks for your input.
Installing only one or the other (Reader vs Pro and either 9 or 9.2) produced no improvement and the same delay.
Disabling malware applications and then uninstalling them one at a time also produced no improvement.
Disabling the HyperThreading feature within the BIOS/CMOS did not help.
The only workaround so far is to launch Adobe Reader or Pro first, go into Task Manager and then "Set Affinity..." and have only one check mark on any CPU from CPU 0 through CPU 7. Then either drag the PDF into the Adobe Reader or Pro, or go to File and then Open to load the PDF. This process was the only way so far to "normally" open and immediately view and scroll the PDF regardless of complexity without delays or freezes.
Has anyone else been able to reproduce the problem and test the workaround on similar hardware?
Thanks in advance.

My MacBook Pro is freezing and is extremely slow.

This started a few days ago. It is only 9 months old and our first Mac so we are unsure as to what to do. It will sometimes not wake up after we open it again. It will only start after a hard shut down. If someone could please suggest some possible solutions, that would be terrific, thank you.

Reset SMC.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
Choose the method for:
"Resetting SMC on portables with a battery you should not remove on your own".
If this does not help, contact Apple.
A new Mac is in warranty for 1 year from the date of purchase.
Best.

Adobe Digital edition does not respond and is EXTREMELY SLOW

The PDFs take forever to load or scroll or navigate through the pages. Highlighting certain sections hangs up the processor. How is this even a thing? Totally unacceptable & clearly the WORST

I have just been through this setting up in advance the PRS-650 which is a Christmas present for my wife.
I have borrowed 3 books on her library account which I have in ADE, and I connected the e-reader. No joy as you have discovered.
What you need to do is download and install Sony Ebook Library. Do not accept it as the default for acsm and epub files if you intend to use ADE to open those. Ebook Library will "see" your reader. You should be able to sync the sample documents in the Ebook Library to the reader if you want, which should give you some confidence that the reader actually works!
You should already have authorised your computer for ADE. I think you will have to have an Adobe account to authorise more than one device, so hopefully you've done this already. Now when you open ADE it should see the reader and ask you if you want to authorise it, which you obviously will. When you have done this you will have the reader in the libraries list on the left. Select your ADE library and library view. Now drag the books to the reader. Good luck - it worked for me.

Extremely slow laptop.

So, I haven't used my laptop for a while, been using my desktop. But I turned it on the other day and it was super slow.
Grub takes like 30 seconds to load.
Then simple commands like "ls" take 15 seconds, opening anything and everything, extremely slow, while writing in VIM it gets stuck often, etc.
My windows installation didn't even boot, I reformatted and just installed Arch, but everything was still extremely slow.
I did a memtest and got no errors ( I can run something like PuppyLinux just fine also -- which runs from RAM -- and anything on Live CD without issues really ), I also did tests with S.M.A.R.T and badblocks, no errors.
I'm not hardware knowledgeable at all, so: What else could be causing this? What else can I test?
Thank you.
Last edited by Garmik (2013-05-23 13:15:40)

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