OSX Maverick - Has slowed the performance of iMac
After updating to OSX Mavericks' my Mac is performing very slow. Particularly the Adobe suite (photoshop...) and MS word is performing extremely slow? And this iMac computer is only a couple of months old...
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First backup to a storage drive using the emergency quick copy method, then disconnect the external drive, do NOT rely solely upon TimeMachine.
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Shut the power clear off, wait a minute or 2 and restart and see if that clears the problem.
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In addition to checking system preferences/sound/output and selecting built in if that does not work, make sure volume is up and mute not checked.
You can try the following, Take a set of headphones and plug theim in and out several times (there is a micro switch that sometimes gets stuck)
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Open Activity Monitor and kill this process - rapportd.
Reinstalling OS X Without Erasing the Drive
Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Reinstalling OS X Without Erasing the Drive
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the main menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows.
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility and press the Continue button. After Disk Utility loads select the Macintosh HD entry from the the left side list. Click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If Disk Utility reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit Disk Utility and return to the main menu.
Reinstall OS X: Select Reinstall OS X and click on the Continue button.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.
Alternatively, see:
Reinstall OS X Without Erasing the Drive
Choose the version you have installed now:
OS X Yosemite- Reinstall OS X
OS X Mavericks- Reinstall OS X
OS X Mountain Lion- Reinstall OS X
OS X Lion- Reinstall Mac OS X
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet
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OSX Mavericks - Where is the 'today' view in Finder?
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Hi bobcatX,
Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
The "Search For" option is not present in the Finder sidebar in Mavericks, but you can recreate the functionality by using Smart Folders. When you create a Smart Folder, you have the option to add it to the Finder sidebar.
To set it up, first create a Smart Folder:
In the Finder, choose File > New Smart Folder, or press Command (⌘)-Option-N.
Next, set the parameters of your search:
To search for additional specific attributes, click Add ( + ) below the search field. Search attribute pop-up menus appear.
The menus work in pairs; for example, to search for images, you would choose Kind from the pop-up menu on the left, and then choose Images from the pop-up menu next to it.
In this case, choose "Last modified date" from the pop-up menu on the left, and "Today" or "Yesterday" from the pop-up menu next to it.
Lastly, save the search:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11021
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Help! Mavericks has slowed my mac to a crawl
I had snow leopard. I feel like I should have just let it alone. My mom who has a mac told me how much I would like it . My printer was no longer working and apparently things werent as compatible.
I downloaded it and now my machine runs like molasses...especially safari. I have no idea what to do.
I would love some help but please don't tell me to configure the reflux capicator or index spotlight.. I don't understand it. Please explain like I am a child and give me step by step instructions to try..lol
Thank you!!You want and need help with your Mac issues, but you know very little about Macs
It's really, REALLY hard to help a user, in these types of support forums, who has very limited technical knowledge of Apple computers, software and devices.
Remember, we are not there with you in front of your computer to help and explain things as we go.
Somebody here will try to help you,
In the meantime, may I suggest looking at this section of Apple's website so you can start learnng more about Apple hardware, software/OS X terminology, usages, apps and functionality and how your Mac works.
http://www.apple.com/support/macbasics/
It is possible the Spotlight search app is indexing your Mac's hard drive. To see if this is happening, look to the main OS X menu bar to the right for Spotlight's magnifying glass symbol. If it has dot in the middle of the symbol, Spotlight is indexing your Mac's hard drive and this may take awhile.
To help us troubleshoot any other Mac issues you may have, download, install and run an app called Etrecheck.
http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck
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OSX Mavericks (new 3.1 Core i7 iMac) crashes on logout and goes to a blank white screen.... arrghhh
Just started happending after updating to Maverick
Works fine but if left unattended for 1 hour and you logout of current user on the top right hand side near spotlight, you can't login with a new user, the screen crashed to a bank white screen....
Any help is appreciated!!!!!!!I had a similar problem, and connected it to a posted software problem related to hard disks from Westeren Digital. I uninstalled alle the software from Western Digital. The disk still works as normal, and the logout problem disappeared. It is a software problem that will probably be fixed by WD and/or Apple soon, but until then you may uinstall it temporarily. Or permanently, I do not need that extra WD software anyway.
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http://www.infoworld.com/t/storage/os-x-mavericks-upgrade-destroys-data-reports- western-digital-230100 -
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(iMac 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5, Memory 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3; specs on Macbook not handy as I post this.)
I have come to dread OS X updates and I'll be careful about downloading them in the future. I am becoming more and more disappointed in Apple as a whole. The last time I called Applecare for help was pointless. I learn more from forums like this.Activity Monitor - Mavericks also Yosemite
Activity Monitor in Mavericks has significant changes
Performance Guide
Why is my computer slow
Why your Mac runs slower than it should
Slow Mac After Mavericks
Things you can do to resolve slowdowns see post by Kappy
Try running this program and then copy and paste the output in a reply. The program was created by Etresoft, a frequent contributor. Please use copy and paste as screen shots can be hard to read.
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After system reorg the access to tabel WLK1 has slowed down tremendously
Hi,
Abap here, looking for basis help!
SAP Basis 620
SAP_APPL 470
Our basis guys ran a system reorg on the production system which has affected the performance of a program. I have tracked this down to a particular table (WLK1) which seems to have indexing problems. Even when doing SE16 and getting table entries there is a performance issue.
On the QA system the table exists with approximately the same amount of entries, i.e. 31 million, and exactly the same indexes, as Production. Yet running SE16 in QA takes less than 2 minutes to return data, whereas the Prod system takes 20 minutes.
Any ideas or assistance is greatly appreciated.
Kind regards,
Warren.Hello Warren,
why does your basis guy not reorg the QA system at first to find performance impacts?
But ok.. if the sql statement is exactly the same in PR and QA, we need some more informations.
1) Which oracle database version (could be find over the system status)
2) We need the execution plan of the sql statement in PR and QA
3) Has your basis admin collect new table/index statistics after the reorg?
4) Does the table include LOB fields (maybe he made a LOB migration with the reorg)
But the important questions is the 1 - 3.
You can find the execution plan by running the SE16 and running the transaction ST04 parallel.
ST04 => Detail analysis menu => Oracle Sessions => Search your session and click the execution plan button => expand the statistic "menu" and check when the latest statistics were collected.
Regards
Stefan -
Problems with OSX Mavericks after security update 23 april 2014
So I ve just updated the latest security update of osx mavericks and i get a really annoying problem. My system went so slow for example when I switch fullscreen a window or back from fullscreen and the effect of apps when I open them it is slow aswell. These things are recogniseable in Safari too so I am not able to use my mac like before. Please help me find out what should I do.
Activity Monitor - Mavericks
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I have a early 2011 MacBook Pro 17", 2.2 GHz i7, 16gb RAM, and I have installed Mavericks OS.
After the upgrade, I find that my Mac is running pretty sluggish and slow, definitely not your typical Apple product. While view my photos through Finder, I find that each photo I select in sequence, the preview is getting slower and slower to open. And, eventually, when I select another folder in Finder, Finder will lock up for a few seconds to at least a minute (maybe even longer) and I get the little rainbow wheel (rollie pollie). And this has been getting worse every day.
I went to the disk utility (command-r) and performed a disk repair, and there were several issues that it repaired, but it didn't make any difference when I went back to view my photos. I ran EtreCheck and it gave me this:
Hardware Information:
MacBook Pro (17-inch, Early 2011)
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,3
1 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 4 cores
16 GB RAM
Video Information:
Intel HD Graphics 3000 - VRAM: 512 MB
AMD Radeon HD 6750M - VRAM: 1024 MB
Audio Plug-ins:
BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0
AirPlay: Version: 1.9
AppleAVBAudio: Version: 2.0.0
iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3
Startup Items:
Jaksta - Path: /Library/StartupItems/Jaksta
System Software:
OS X 10.9 (13A603) - Uptime: 0 days 0:45:17
Disk Information:
TOSHIBA MK7559GSXF disk0 : (750.16 GB)
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) /: 749.3 GB (378.77 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
MATSHITADVD-R UJ-8A8
USB Information:
Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Logitech USB Receiver
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
FireWire Information:
Thunderbolt Information:
Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Kernel Extensions:
com.parallels.virtualsound (1.0
Problem System Launch Daemons:
Problem System Launch Agents:
Launch Daemons:
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist
[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist
[loaded] com.parallels.mobile.dispatcher.launchdaemon.plist
[loaded] com.parallels.mobile.kextloader.launchdaemon.plist
Launch Agents:
[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
[loaded] com.brother.LOGINserver.plist
[loaded] com.parallels.mobile.prl_deskctl_agent.launchagent.plist
User Launch Agents:
[loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist
[loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist
[failed] [email protected]list
[loaded] com.divx.agent.postinstall.plist
[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist
[loaded] com.parallels.mobile.startgui.launchagent.plist
User Login Items:
iTunesHelper
TomTomHOMERunner
AdobeResourceSynchronizer
SpeechSynthesisServer
3rd Party Preference Panes:
Flash Player
Flip4Mac WMV
Internet Plug-ins:
AdobeAAMDetect.plugin
AdobePDFViewer.plugin
AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin
Default Browser.plugin
Flash Player.plugin
FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin
Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.plugin
iPhotoPhotocast.plugin
QuickTime Plugin.plugin
SharePointBrowserPlugin.plugin
Silverlight.plugin
Unity Web Player.plugin
User Internet Plug-ins:
CitrixOnlineWebDeploymentPlugin.plugin
Bad Fonts:
None
Time Machine:
Skip System Files: NO
Mobile backups: OFF
Auto backup: NO
Volumes being backed up:
Macintosh HD: Disk size: 749.3 GB Disk used: 370.53 GB
Destinations:
External Drive A [Network] (Last used)
Total size: 997.71 GB
Total number of backups: 4
Oldest backup: 2012-08-13 09:51:21 +0000
Last backup: 2012-09-22 08:17:44 +0000
Size of backup disk: Too small
Backup size 997.71 GB < (Disk used 370.53 GB X 3)
Top Processes by CPU:
3% WindowServer
1% EtreCheck
1% fontd
0% com.apple.WebKit.Networking
0% aosnotifyd
Top Processes by Memory:
147 MB Finder
147 MB com.apple.IconServicesAgent
98 MB com.apple.WebKit.WebContent
82 MB mds_stores
66 MB WindowServer
66 MB Dock
49 MB Safari
33 MB prl_deskctl_agent
33 MB prl_deskctl_wizard
33 MB PluginProcess
Virtual Memory Statistics:
12.70 GB Free RAM
1.40 GB Active RAM
494 MB Inactive RAM
1.42 GB Wired RAM
486 MB Page-ins
0 B Page-outs
Not sure of what the problem could be, third-party software, or something else. I am thinking about doing a clean install, (i.e, erasing HD and re-installing Mavericks) but I would totally hate to do that since it will take all day to back-up my stuff and than do the re-install. (BTW, what format should I chose when I erase my HD?!?)
Any and all help/suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!!The official name for the rollie pollie is the SBBOD (the spinning beach ball of death).
I don't see a lot that is suspicious from the EtreCheck report, except for
[failed] [email protected]list
I would suspect that the problem is either that or with one or another of the third party items you have.
The trouble with just doing a clean reinstall, is that you don't know what is causing the problem, and if it's one of those third party items you could just be reinstalling the problem again.
Here's what I'd try:
I'd try and find that .plist file and delete it. It wasn't on my mac so it sounds like it's from something you've installed. Mavericks has changed the way .plist files are handled and some of them are cached. Usually if there'a a plist file problem you can just delete it and restart and a new, uncorrupted plist file is generated; but this is not the case any more. I've been looking for answers for this and so far I have not found any definitive answers for this general problem (errant .plist removal).
a safe boot would confirm your suspicions about a third party app causing the problem. Mac OS X: What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode?
then trial and error to find the one causing the problem.
before a clean reinstall, I'd just try a reinstallation over your current install, which can often fix the problem.
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