Laptop working at a crawling speed

Out of nowhere, my macbook pro has come to a crawl at best, to process or do anything, i get the spinning wheel and working with files in lightroom takes 10-15 mins just for file to populate.
Really have no idea what happened, how to troubleshoot or where to start.
Open to suggestions, ideas, any online help.
Thanks
RM

You could try holding the Shift key down on startup, and wait awhile for the machine to begin booting into SafeBoot mode where you could hope it catches and fixes some unseen mystery items while that happens; then after its in Safeboot (you may have to login with admin user pw to get to desktop/finder) you could look into Go> Utilities> Disk Utility, from First Aid in DU you could 'repair disk permissions' and let it go awhile. When that is done, look into the log file of what it said it did. Look puzzled if you like, then quit Disk Utility from the menu.
Restart the computer. There is a chance the issue will go away at least for a time.
Sluggish activity could be caused by increasingly full hard disk drive, lack of free workspace for Virtual Memory to function as part of OS X free HDD space is used as temporary swap, virtual RAM, and the HDD is read & written to perform this. Also, if there is upward expandability available through purchase and installation of additional chip RAM, check into that. Some newer models do not allow the user to upgrade RAM or hard drive. Or battery.
{If the hard disk drive is getting full (should have more than 20% free space, or room for some 40GB of virtual memory, in a crunch) you could consider moving copies of your own files, or even libraries of images, music, etc, to an externally enclosed hard disk drive that is not a TimeMachine. And for an exercise, a second drive that can run a bootable clone of your OS X system, is something to consider. A backup system that can run the computer.}
For an encore you could check into the Utilities folder> launch Console and see the lengthy and exhaustive things that are in there. Some reports and logs can tell you what (by odd names) was happening and when by time, day, hour, min. There are piles of hidden things going on that may be of some help to know.
Also, the system profiler (in finder, apple menu icon, about this mac... more info) there also is a section that shows log files and hardware specifications. Become familiar with these places to look, as in time they could make sense and tell you what is going on.
Anyway that's just a few ideas. Takes a bit of time. Probably better to know what is going on and preventative care than what the sports scores were last season, three years from now. Or the calories in a keg of beer.
Good luck & happy computing!

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