My MacBook slowed down to unusable speeds (15-20mins for a password) and then 1 week later it was fine... What happened?
So two weeks ago, my MacBook Pro just slowed right down, I was on the internet and all of a sudden it took 30 minutes to close a tab (I thought the page may have been the problem) and it was still slow so I thought I'd give it a rest and close it for the night. The next morning it took 15-20 minutes to just type my password to start my computer which sucked because my screen saver goes off after 15 minutes so it kept restarting itself and I would have to type in my password again. I finally logged on and quit all the programs I could and tried to restart it. Same problem and everything took at least 30 minutes to do. A few days later I tried again and it was the same story. I left it powered off for a week and started preparing myself to get a new laptop when I opened it up today, ready to transfer as much as I can to my external hard drive and it worked . It took no time to type in my password and everything loaded like normal... Youtube and movies worked fine. Now I'm thrilled that it is all working again but I would like to know what happened, was it dangerous and do I have to transfer everything and prepare to say goodbye to my computer because this was a warning of it's immenant death? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
It's not possible to know what happened, but it is possible for you to start backing up your machine, I would suggest starting now.
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