My computer is all of a sudden super slow! What's up and what to do???
I've been working on a massive project in iMovie. Downloading from my camera and DVDs. Somewhere along the line it said my hard drive was getting full. So I set up the external drive I bought when I bought my computer (but which I had never used yet). I dragged my project to the external drive and continued working.
But now everything is really slow and weird. It always took only a few seconds to turn my computer on. Now it takes like 5 minutes or something crazy. I don't know what to do!
(OK, I just got my computer on, but the hard drive isn't showing up. I'll post this and restart the computer, hopefully the hard drive will show up and the computer will come on...)
Always leave at least 15% of free space on your hard drive and don't ever, ever ignore warnings that it is getting too full. A disk without adequate free space can easily result in some extremely nasty, non-recoverable disk errors. iMovie and most other graphics/video programs use temporary files (scratch files) when you edit that can suck disk space like a black hole. iMovie will use the disk where you first save your project for scratch space so make sure that disk or partition has plenty of free space. If you are working with large graphic files it makes sense to keep the scratch space for them on a partition or an external other than where your system resides.
Back up your internal hard drive immediately. It's also a good idea to have a second backup of any mission critical data. After you are absolutely sure that you have a rock solid backup use Disk Utility to repair your internal hard drive. If any errors are reported keep repeating the repair process until Disk Utility gives your internal a clean bill of health.
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The only thing I've done differently is downloaded and installed Google Earth, which, if that is the source, I'd gladly remove it. Is there a way to uninstall a program so there are no lingering files?
I have the higher RPM drive, 80gb and it's 1.5gb away from full, so I don't know if that has anything to do with it.
Please help... This $2600 computer is far too young to be replaced.
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Sorry to hear about that. Seems from a MacFixIt article linked to on Applejack's home page (written byu Dan FDrakes) that Applejack is a pretty powerful program, that has both serious pros and cons: http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=2005041817191411
I found a MacFixIt discussion thread that appears to outline the steps needed to delete Applejack from one's computer -- they reference the readme that accompanies Applejack.
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Maybe you could try starting your machine in Safe Mode: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107392 ; http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107393 Then, perhaps you'd be able to delete Applejack and restart your machine properly.
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Well, hopefully Apple's phone support will help you recover your system. I would, of course, try all of their suggestions first.
Please post back how everything turns out.
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Problem description:
I very recently did a clean install of Yosemite, and everything was going great, but all of a sudden, everything slowed down like crazy today. The cursor moves slow. Clicks take MINUTES to register, and Chrome, Firefox, and Safari lock up completely. If I don’t start Activity Monitor and have in running in the front pane to see what is happening, it becomes impossible to load it at all, and I end up having to do a hard reset.
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Report generated November 1, 2014 at 7:44:49 PM EDT
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MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro6,2
1 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 2-core
4 GB RAM Upgradeable
BANK 0/DIMM0
2 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok
BANK 1/DIMM0
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Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported
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S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
PPBE_BOOT (disk0s4) /Volumes/PPBE_BOOT : 36 MB (30 MB free)
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Safari Extensions: ℹ️
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Time Machine: ℹ️
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1% sysmond
0% Activity Monitor
0% AppleSpell
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iOS: 'Not enough free space' alert when trying to sync
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1503
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