My mac pro book is running slow and I can hardly go on the internet without all kinds of pop ups and ads making it impossible to surf the net.

I have a mac pro book version 10.10 that is running on the sluggish side. I can hardly use the internet because every time I click on a link or details about a product all the pop ups that make it impossible to surf the net. I am afraid to take any steps on my own because I am not quite that tech savvy. What can I do? I didn't think these kinds of things happened with a mac.

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I have a Mac Pro tower am running OSX and iTunes will not work. It has always worked flawlessly. I can see all my iTunes content- my playlists, my songs et cetera, But I cannot play anything. The progress bar is 'stuck'...any suggestions?

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My Mac seems to be running slow, and what I call the rainbow wheel runs longer than I think it should.

My Mac seems to be running slow, and what I call the rainbow wheel, runs much longer than I think it should.

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I have a mac pro that is running slow. what can be done?

I have a mac pro that is running slow. what can be done?

Read the last two replies in this thread: https://discussions.apple.com/message/24218682#24218682
Reply here, not there.

Where do i sell my mac pro book? recently bought and i don't need it

I recently bought my Mac Pro Book and found out I don't need it. How do or where should I sell it?

Stephanie29526,
how recently did you buy it? You might be able to return it for a full refund from the place where you’d purchased it.

Mac pro 13 inch running slow.

y MAC PRO 13 INCH HAS 150 GB OF WHICH I HAVE 55 GB LEFT IN THE HARD DRIVE IT IS RUNNING VERY SLOW. I HAVE A LOT OF MUSIC AND PHOTOS I USE ITUNES MATCH. Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GB 1067 MHz NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4. Should i move all my stuff onto an external hard drive, by space on the cloud and move it there, any clean up apps i should use. I know nothing about computers i just use them

If this started happening without your having made any changes and without a warning of low disk space, then it's likely that the startup drive, or some other hardware component, is failing. Back up all data immediately, then make a "Genius" appointment at an Apple Store to have the machine tested.
There are ways to back up a computer that isn't fully functional. Ask if you need guidance.

Mac Pro (Snow Leopard) runs slow even after bootup disk is repaired

My Mac Pro running OS X 10.6.8 continues to run exremely slowly even after the bootup disk was repaired and verified. I did a second safe boot then a regular boot and now I cannot even start any of the applicatsion. E.g., I cannot start either Mail.app or Safari.
This ie s exremely upsetting and I would appreciate any help, advice, ... on what I should do to determine the problem.
VB

I have had Time Machine backups and I used to have online backups as well until the provider changed terms on me which made it so much more expensive (but that is another story). I have >600 GB available on my1 TB startup drive and I do have quite of a bit of my media files on an additional 500 GB hard drive.
However, your mentioning power outages and dorps/dips reminded me that such is indeed a problem where we live. My MacPro is wlays on and when I woke up one morning the login window was on so it obviously had restarted. Then just before the Mac acted slower than molasses I do remember my UPS beeping but I admittedly sort of ignored it and forgot all about it since this kind of thing happens relatively frequently.
I just restarted the system now and everything seems back to normal again.
My question: my Mac Pro as well as my monitor are connected to a 350 VA/200 W UPS. What is the advantage of using a 1500 VA UPS?
Thanks.

New 8core mac pro, photoshop CS5 running slow

Hi all
I recently decided to switch from PC to MAC. I used to work on a quad core Dell XPS 710 which was very good but decided that an 8core mac would improve the performance of my work flow.
My new mac is a 2x2.26 quad core xeon with 8 gigs of ram and running the latest Mac OS. The computer itself runs fine but photoshop seems very laggy doing simple tasks such as moving images on layers etc. I've tried allocating up to 85% of the memory to photoshop in the preferences but nothing seems to make any difference.
At the moment I would say it runs at 3-4times slower than my old PC which seems madness to me
Any help, tips or advice would be much appreciated
Thanks
Trevor

Yes, something is wrong if it is running slower.
Did you install the 12.0.1 update?
Have you tried disabling third party plugins?
Have you tried updating your wacom tablet drivers?
Have you tried font cleanup as suggested in the other topics on slowdowns?

My macbook pro w/lion running slow and hanging a lot: sometimes freezing

my mid-2010 w/lion is running quite slow and hanging: sometimes freezing. have reset smc and emptied caches. helped for a bit but now even slower. happens with minimal load on cpu and have plenty of memory available.. any suggestions? tq

Increase Disk Space.
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH3915
Repair Disk.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3548399?start=0&tstart=0
Hope this helps.

Premiere Pro CC 2014 running slow and problematic...

We have Adobe for Teams on 3 computers, all are:
HPZ820, Dual Proc with Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 @ 2.00GHz, 32 GB RAM, Dual Video Cards Quadro 6000 4GB, Windows 7 64 bit with all the latest patches. All hardware is up to date (especially the Video Cards).
Everything worked on the first release of 2014 but a few weeks ago there was an "update" to Premiere. Since this update, projects work for a short period. When you start a new project and add footage, you can scrub the footage and play the footage with no issue. But the more assets you add, simple Titles, Shapes in the background etc. the slower Premiere Responds during playback. I have even set my playback resolution to 1/4. These issues are occurring on all 3 computers on our team and now we are way behind on projects. I opened an new project and imported in H264 footage from our Panasonic Camera. It played fine on the timeline. Then I added a title bar across all the footage. It choked in a few places but did play through. Then I added our standard logo that goes into all our videos. Again, it ran even slower in the monitor, eventually freezing on a frame while the audio would continue playing. At that point you couldn't even scrub to any part of the timeline and have anything show up on the program monitor. It was the image of the last thing it froze on. At one point the monitor showed what was on my desktop. I have even tested starting a new project, adding assets of simple AVI files then tried with WMV files, one by one but no matter what, I get the same results on all three computers. The weirdest part is I opened up an old project we did last month. It played once all the way through, the second time I played through, it froze on the first frame but the audio continued to play through. How can we roll back the update?

Hi,
Thank you for proving us with the detailed description.
Do you have any third party devise connected for playback like Matrox or AJA?
are the Graphic Drivers up to date for Nvidia?
If yes then can you perform a clean uninstall of all the drivers of Nvidia drivers and then install it again.
Are you facing the same issue on Software Only Mode?
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Arjun

My MacBook Pro just started running slow and it happened overnight

I have a MacBook Pro running OS X 10.9.4
Processor 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory 4 DB 1333 MHz DDR3
I have not added any programs I was doing some normal stuff the night before some photo editing.
Here is what I have tried to do. I ran the disk utility there were 2 permissions that needed to be fixed it was
Disk repair said my disk was ok.
I am not sure what to do now.
Please help

I have install de program, can you help me?
EtreCheck version: 1.9.15 (52)
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Macbook pro has been running slow and not restarting

A few days ago I had to shut down my macbook because it froze. When I tried to restart it, it would sit on the grey apple screen and then after a few minutes it would restart again, and again, never getting past that screen. I called apple support and they tried to help me do a few things, non of which would work. Then they said I needed to reinstall OS Leopard but I did not have the discs, so I am waiting on them to be shipped. However, the next day I turned my mac on, and it worked. Since then I have turned it off and it has not worked again, but after doing a pram reset it works. However, it is very slow, only the safari browser will work, I cannot empty the trash (among other things) and just now when I tried to download an article off the internet, it said my disc was full and I had to delete things in order to clear space. Does anyone know if this is a hard drive issue, so if just reinstalling OS Leopard or upgrading to Lion will help? Any ideas what I should do?

Sounds like a failing hard drive. Take it to an Apple Store for testing.

Why after installing Snow Leopard my system(Mac Pro 15) is very slow and every time I download updates it crashes?

TThis what shows on the log with errors.....
5/28/11 1:32:50 PM com.apple.launchd[1] *** launchd[1] has started up. ***
5/28/11 1:33:08 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.bsd.dirhelper) Throttling respawn: Will start in 5 seconds
5/28/11 1:33:09 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.smb.sharepoints[25]) Exited with exit code: 71
5/28/11 1:33:10 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.bsd.dirhelper) Throttling respawn: Will start in 3 seconds
5/28/11 1:33:26 PM com.apple.service_helper[92] launchctl: Error unloading: com.apple.backupd-auto
5/28/11 1:33:26 PM com.apple.service_helper[92] launchctl: Error unloading: com.apple.backupd-wake
5/28/11 1:33:26 PM com.apple.service_helper[92] launchctl: Error unloading: com.apple.backupd-attach
5/28/11 1:33:27 PM com.apple.fontd[85] FODBCheck: foRec->annexNumber != kInvalidAnnexNumber (0)
5/28/11 1:33:29 PM com.apple.fontd[85] FODBCheck: foRec->annexNumber != kInvalidAnnexNumber (0)
5/28/11 1:35:45 PM com.apple.coreservicesd[48] ThrottleProcessIO: throttling disk i/o
5/28/11 1:35:50 PM com.apple.service_helper[125] org.ntp.ntpd: Already loaded
5/28/11 1:37:53 PM com.apple.coreservicesd[48] ThrottleProcessIO: throttling disk i/o
5/28/11 1:38:16 PM [0x0-0x5005].com.apple.IncompatibleAppDisplay[169] Sat May 28 13:38:16 new-host-2.home IncompatibleAppDisplay[169] <Warning>: CGSLookupServerPort: _CGSSessionDeathWatchPort(gSessionPort) returns -308
5/28/11 1:38:16 PM [0x0-0x5005].com.apple.IncompatibleAppDisplay[169] Sat May 28 13:38:16 new-host-2.home IncompatibleAppDisplay[169] <Error>: (ipc/send) invalid destination port: CGSColorProfileCreateWithColorProfileID: Cannot resolve color profile id(2)
5/28/11 1:38:16 PM [0x0-0x5005].com.apple.IncompatibleAppDisplay[169] Sat May 28 13:38:16 new-host-2.home IncompatibleAppDisplay[169] <Error>: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
5/28/11 1:38:16 PM [0x0-0x5005].com.apple.IncompatibleAppDisplay[169] Sat May 28 13:38:16 new-host-2.home IncompatibleAppDisplay[169] <Error>: (ipc/send) invalid destination port: CGSColorProfileCreateWithColorProfileID: Cannot resolve color profile id(2)
5/28/11 1:38:16 PM [0x0-0x5005].com.apple.IncompatibleAppDisplay[169] Sat May 28 13:38:16 new-host-2.home IncompatibleAppDisplay[169] <Error>: (ipc/send) invalid destination port: CGSColorProfileCreateWithColorProfileID: Cannot resolve color profile id(2)
5/28/11 1:38:16 PM [0x0-0x5005].com.apple.IncompatibleAppDisplay[169] Sat May 28 13:38:16 new-host-2.home IncompatibleAppDisplay[169] <Error>: (ipc/send) invalid destination port: CGSColorProfileCreateWithColorProfileID: Cannot resolve color profile id(2)
5/28/11 1:38:16 PM [0x0-0x5005].com.apple.IncompatibleAppDisplay[169] Sat May 28 13:38:16 new-host-2.home IncompatibleAppDisplay[169] <Error>: (ipc/send) invalid destination port: CGSColorProfileCreateWithColorProfileID: Cannot resolve color profile id(2)
5/28/11 1:38:16 PM [0x0-0x5005].com.apple.IncompatibleAppDisplay[169] Sat May 28 13:38:16 new-host-2.home IncompatibleAppDisplay[169] <Error>: (ipc/send) invalid destination port: CGSColorProfileCreateWithColorProfileID: Cannot resolve color profile id(2)
5/28/11 1:38:16 PM [0x0-0x5005].com.apple.IncompatibleAppDisplay[169] Sat May 28 13:38:16 new-host-2.home IncompatibleAppDisplay[169] <Error>: (ipc/send) invalid destination port: CGSColorProfileCreateWithColorProfileID: Cannot resolve color profile id(2)
5/28/11 1:38:16 PM [0x0-0x5005].com.apple.IncompatibleAppDisplay[169] Sat May 28 13:38:16 new-host-2.home IncompatibleAppDisplay[169] <Error>: (ipc/send) invalid destination port: CGSColorProfileCreateWithColorProfileID: Cannot resolve color profile id(2)
5/28/11 1:38:16 PM [0x0-0x5005].com.apple.IncompatibleAppDisplay[169] Sat May 28 13:38:16 new-host-2.home IncompatibleAppDisplay[169] <Error>: (ipc/send) invalid destination port: CGSColorProfileCreateWithColorProfileID: Cannot resolve color profile id(2)
5/28/11 1:38:16 PM [0x0-0x5005].com.apple.IncompatibleAppDisplay[169] Sat May 28 13:38:16 new-host-2.home IncompatibleAppDisplay[169] <Error>: (ipc/send) invalid destination port: CGSColorProfileCreateWithColorProfileID: Cannot resolve color profile id(2)

I refer you to the TM expert
http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/14.html
As a extra precaution I would copy the user file folders of Music, Documents, Pictures etc to another external drive and disconnect, just in case.
Always maintain TWO backups of your data at all times, since your messing with one, you need another until your back at two again.

Late 2011 MB Pro runs SLOW. How can I clean up the junk w/o losing key sw? Buying a new MB pro soon, what's the best way to bring data but leave sluggish performance?

Report from EtreCheck here:
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          MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2011)
          MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,1
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          4 GB RAM
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          Intel HD Graphics 3000 - VRAM: 384 MB
System Software:
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          Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
          Flip4Mac WMV Plugin: Version: 2.3.8.1 Support
          OfficeLiveBrowserPlugin: Version: 12.3.4 Support
          AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 11.0.07 - SDK 10.6 Support
          FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 13.0.0.214 - SDK 10.6 Support
          DivXBrowserPlugin: Version: 2.1 Support
          Silverlight: Version: 5.1.30317.0 - SDK 10.6 Support
          Flash Player: Version: 13.0.0.214 - SDK 10.6 Support
          iPhotoPhotocast: Version: 7.0
          googletalkbrowserplugin: Version: 5.4.1.18709 Support
          QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
          AdobePDFViewer: Version: 11.0.07 - SDK 10.6 Support
          SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.4.1 - SDK 10.6 Support
Safari Extensions:
          B4G_Safari: Version: 1.0
          Evernote Web Clipper: Version: 6.1
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:
          Move-Media-Player: Version: npmnqmp 071101000050 Support
          Dashlane: Version: Dashlane 1.0.0 - SDK 10.7 Support
          Unity Player: Version: UnityPlayer version 1.6.2 Support
          Unity Web Player: Version: UnityPlayer version 2.0.2f2 Support
          WebEx64: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.6 Support
          RealPlayer Plugin: Version: Unknown
3rd Party Preference Panes:
          Cineform Support
          DivX Support
          EarthDesk Support
          Flash Player Support
          Flip4Mac WMV Support
          Growl Support
          iStat menus Support
          Paragon NTFS for Mac ® OS X Support
          SANE Support
Time Machine:
          Skip System Files: NO
          Mobile backups: ON
          Auto backup: YES
          Volumes being backed up:
                    Macintosh HD: Disk size: 697.84 GB Disk used: 253.57 GB
          Destinations:
                    Reed Backup [Local] (Last used)
                    Total size: 2
                    Total number of backups: 14
                    Oldest backup: 2014-04-30 03:12:47 +0000
                    Last backup: 2014-05-28 23:48:29 +0000
                    Size of backup disk: Adequate
                              Backup size 2 > (Disk used 253.57 GB X 3)
          Time Machine details may not be accurate.
          All volumes being backed up may not be listed.
Top Processes by CPU:
               4%          Activity Monitor
               3%          WindowServer
               1%          Box Sync Monitor
               1%          Dropbox
               1%          sysmond
Top Processes by Memory:
          418 MB          iTunes
          147 MB          Google Chrome
          70 MB          Spotify
          45 MB          WindowServer
          41 MB          Dashlane
Virtual Memory Information:
          26 MB          Free RAM
          953 MB          Active RAM
          932 MB          Inactive RAM
          1.10 GB          Wired RAM
          27.07 GB          Page-ins
          587 MB          Page-outs

You have a boatload of things that you can get rid of!
Kernel Extensions:
          [not loaded] com.novatelwireless.driver.3G (3.0.2) Support
          [not loaded] com.novatelwireless.driver.3GData (3.0.2) Support
          [not loaded] com.novatelwireless.driver.DisableAutoInstall (2.0.6) Support
          [not loaded] com.seagate.driver.PowSecDriverCore (5.2.4 - SDK 10.4) Support
          [not loaded] com.seagate.driver.PowSecLeafDriver_10_4 (5.2.4 - SDK 10.4) Support
          [not loaded] com.seagate.driver.PowSecLeafDriver_10_5 (5.2.4 - SDK 10.5) Support
          [not loaded] com.seagate.driver.SeagateDriveIcons (5.2.4 - SDK 10.4) Support
          [not loaded] com.sierrawireless.driver.SierraSupport (1.4.11) Support
          [not loaded] com.sierrawireless.driver.SierraSwitch (1.2.2) Support
          [not loaded] com.sierrawireless.driver.SierraSwitchKicker (1.0.0) Support
          [kext loaded] com.silex.driver.sxuptp (1.5.1) Support
          [not loaded] com.smithmicro.driver.SMSIWirelessCDC (3.2.6) Support
          [not loaded] com.smithmicro.driver.SMSIWirelessModem (3.2.6) Support
          [not loaded] com.smithmicro.driver.SMSIWirelessSerial (3.2.6) Support
Startup Items:
          PKard: Path: /Library/StartupItems/PKard
          ProTec6b: Path: /Library/StartupItems/ProTec6b
Problem System Launch Daemons:
          [running] com.seagate.TBDecorator.plist Support
Problem System Launch Agents:
          [loaded] com.paragon.NTFS.auth.plist Support
Launch Daemons:
          [loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist Support
          [running] com.prey.agent.plist Support
          [running] com.wdc.SmartwareDriveService.plist Support
          [running] com.wdc.WDSmartWareService.plist Support
          [running] Nalpeirond6b.plist Support
Launch Agents:
          [running] com.Affinegy.InstaLANa.plist Support
          [loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist Support
          [running] com.gopro.stereomodestatus.plist Support
          [loaded] com.hp.messagecenter.launcher.plist Support
          [running] com.seagate.SeagateStorageGauge.plist Support
          [running] com.thursby.pkard.tokendagent.plist Support
You may need the "gopro" agent if you've a "GoPro" camera, and you may need the "sierrawireless" and "novatelwireless" if you use a Sierra Wireless device of some sort and if you actually need the novatel drivers, but I think that you can safely get rid of the Seagate drivers (unless you need them for some sort of NAS???) and the other stuff.
Give a call back and tell us what you actually have and actually need. Most of it just looks like junk!
Clinton
EDIT: And you definitely need to uninstall ANY SmithMicro software!!!
Message was edited by: clintonfrombirmingham

Why is my mac os x running slow and freezing, also the beach ball keeps spinning?

My mac os x is running slow, and or freezing. The beach ball keeps spinning. I tried re-booting several times and eventually went back to normal and then back to the problem again. Any ideas?

Keep bootable clone backups and use those to test with.
Repair your drive of course, Disk Warrior if you have that.
Then do a Safe boot the first time when you reboot to it.
corrupt files, caches, even a bad USB cable can cause trouble.
If the clone works, then reformat and restore.
And make sure your free space is 30% or more on your boot drive.
Off load media data files and such off the boot drive as well.
If and when it freezes, I've found Disk Warrior repair and rebuild of directory does help, not sure why. but after a hard drive your disk directory will be corrupt (damaged) and in need of more than just a simple reboot or even Safe boot to fix.

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