Painful slow active X ????

I tried to use the automation vi's to access a large database application.
One dataset can be as large as 20000 double's and the database ole interface
only allows to access one number at a time. The sample programs for excel
and word run rather quickly but my labview code requires about 20 times more
excectuion time. Any ideas how to improve things? Are the ActiveX vi's that
slow?
klaus
(labview6.x)

If OLE interface mentioned is so stupid and doesn't allow to get numbers in a reasonable quantity and speed, I'd suggest to search for another database application communication mechanism. Say, storing data to file or send through another communication channel like TCP/IP, DDE or anything else. This may be faster.
Generally there is LabVIEW SQL toolkit from NI and it's manual describes the right way of accessing database data in M$ Windows.
http://www.ni.com/catalog/pdf/1msw094_097a.pdf
http://digital.ni.com/manuals.nsf/7aba4d4ed8d9fa958625663500505c98/e2f21bc9809714f28625665e00635879?OpenDocument
Comment: When asking such a question, don't keep in secret the name of your database application and some additional details, and you'll get much more chances
to get the right answer.
Best Regards,
Sergey

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Problem description:
iPhoto is running painfully slow. My library is on an external hard drive. It was runing just fine yesterday. i disabled Dropbox and a few other applications, to no avail.
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MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010) (Verified)
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8 GB RAM Upgradeable
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Model Identifier: MacBookPro6,2
System Version: OS X 10.10 (14A389)
Kernel Version: Darwin 14.0.0
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Memory
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      Speed: 1067 MHz
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      Speed: 1067 MHz
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      Manufacturer: 0x859B
SerialATA
   Hitachi HTS545032B9SA02
USB
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Diagnostic reports
   2014-12-17 Safari crash
   2014-12-17 com.apple.appkit.xpc.openAndSavePanelService crash
   2014-12-17 garcon crash x4
   2014-12-27 Finder crash
   2014-12-27 ThisLife Uploader crash
   2014-12-27 garcon crash x2
   2014-12-28 Finder crash
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   2014-12-31 com.apple.appkit.xpc.openAndSavePanelService crash
   2014-12-31 garcon crash
   2015-01-02 Finder crash
   2015-01-02 garcon crash
   2015-01-05 Finder crash
   2015-01-05 HandBrake crash
   2015-01-05 garcon crash x2
   2015-01-07 garcon crash
   2015-01-08 iPhoto hang x2
Log
   Jan 7 11:47:39 com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.user.55: Failed to bootstrap path: path = /Library/LaunchAgents/com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist, error = 2: No such file or directory
   Jan 7 11:47:43 com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.user.202: Could not read path: path = /Library/LaunchAgents/com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist, error = 2: No such file or directory
   Jan 7 11:47:43 com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.user.202: Failed to bootstrap path: path = /Library/LaunchAgents/com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist, error = 2: No such file or directory
   Jan 7 11:47:58 com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.user.89: Could not read path: path = /Library/LaunchAgents/com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist, error = 2: No such file or directory
   Jan 7 11:47:58 com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.user.89: Failed to bootstrap path: path = /Library/LaunchAgents/com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist, error = 2: No such file or directory
   Jan 7 11:48:38 jnl: disk2s3: replay_journal: from: 50180096 to: 50778112 (joffset 0x3a3c000)
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   Jan 7 11:49:39 com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.pid.om.apple.photostream-agent.319: Path not allowed in target domain: type = pid, path = /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/Frameworks/PhotoFoundation.framework/Versions /A/XPCServices/com.apple.PhotoApps.DevicePropertyReader.xpc error = 147: The specified service did not ship in the requestor's bundle, origin = /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/PhotoStreamAgent.app
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   Jan 7 11:52:49 com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.user.99: Could not read path: path = /Library/LaunchAgents/com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist, error = 2: No such file or directory
   Jan 7 11:52:49 com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.user.99: Failed to bootstrap path: path = /Library/LaunchAgents/com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist, error = 2: No such file or directory
   Jan 7 12:07:36 process iPhoto[490] thread 12067 caught burning CPU! It used more than 50% CPU (Actual recent usage: 93%) over 180 seconds. thread lifetime cpu usage 90.200179 seconds, (88.682346 user, 1.517833 system) ledger info: balance: 90012025000 credit: 90016246356 debit: 4221356 limit: 90000000000 (50%) period: 180000000000 time since last refill (ns): 96436947650
   Jan 7 12:19:32 com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.pid.quicklookd.536: Path not allowed in target domain: type = pid, path = /Library/Frameworks/iTunesLibrary.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/com.apple.iT unesLibraryService.xpc error = 147: The specified service did not ship in the requestor's bundle, origin = /System/Library/Frameworks/QuickLook.framework/Versions/A/Resources/quicklookd. app
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   Jan 7 12:24:23 process Image Capture Ex[494] caught causing excessive wakeups. Observed wakeups rate (per sec): 1570; Maximum permitted wakeups rate (per sec): 150; Observation period: 300 seconds; Task lifetime number of wakeups: 45166
   Jan 7 12:28:45 process iPhoto[643] thread 21591 caught burning CPU! It used more than 50% CPU (Actual recent usage: 90%) over 180 seconds. thread lifetime cpu usage 90.114637 seconds, (88.373536 user, 1.741101 system) ledger info: balance: 90002127665 credit: 90005648813 debit: 3521148 limit: 90000000000 (50%) period: 180000000000 time since last refill (ns): 99086317519
   Jan 7 12:30:17 com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.pid.om.apple.photostream-agent.655: Path not allowed in target domain: type = pid, path = /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/Frameworks/PhotoFoundation.framework/Versions /A/XPCServices/com.apple.PhotoApps.DevicePropertyReader.xpc error = 147: The specified service did not ship in the requestor's bundle, origin = /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/PhotoStreamAgent.app
   Jan 7 12:30:17 com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.pid.om.apple.photostream-agent.655: Path not allowed in target domain: type = pid, path = /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/Frameworks/PhotoFoundation.framework/Versions /A/XPCServices/com.apple.PhotoApps.DevicePropertyReader.xpc error = 147: The specified service did not ship in the requestor's bundle, origin = /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/PhotoStreamAgent.app
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   Jan 7 20:09:33 process iPhoto[643] caught causing excessive wakeups. Observed wakeups rate (per sec): 198; Maximum permitted wakeups rate (per sec): 150; Observation period: 300 seconds; Task lifetime number of wakeups: 269536
   Jan 8 01:12:04 AppleUSBMultitouchDriver::validateChecksum - 512-byte packet checksum is incorrect (expected 0xf60c, checksum bytes were 0xdead)
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Memory: iPhoto (UID 501) is using 2093 MB
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    <true/>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.logmein.logmeinguiagentatlogin</string>
    <key>LimitLoadToSessionType</key>
    <array>
    <string>LoginWindow</string>
    </array>
    <key>OnDemand</key>
    <true/>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
    <string>/Library/Application Support/LogMeIn/bin/LogMeIn.app/Contents/Helpers/LMIGUIAgent.app/Contents/MacOS /LMIGUIAgent</string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <false/>
    <key>Sockets</key>
    <dict>
    <key>Listeners</key>
   ...and 19 more line(s)
Contents of /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.gopro.stereomodestatus.plist
   - mod date: Jan 29 17:22:17 2014
   - checksum: 2319101607
   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
   <plist version="1.0">
   <dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.gopro.stereomodestatus</string>
    <key>LimitLoadToSessionType</key>
    <string>Aqua</string>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
    <string>/Applications/GoPro/Tools/StereoModeStatus.app/Contents/MacOS/StereoMod eStatus</string>
    </array>
   </dict>
   </plist>
Contents of /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.logmein.logmeinserver.plist
   - mod date: Jan 7 12:05:30 2015
   - checksum: 1427099528
   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
   <plist version="1.0">
   <dict>
    <key>Debug</key>
    <true/>
    <key>Disabled</key>
    <true/>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.logmein.logmeinserver</string>
    <key>LegacyTimers</key>
    <true/>
    <key>OnDemand</key>
    <false/>
    <key>ProcessType</key>
    <string>Interactive</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
    <string>/Library/Application Support/LogMeIn/bin/LogMeIn.app/Contents/MacOS/LogMeIn</string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
    <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
    <string>/Library/Logs/LogMeIn/stderr.log</string>
    <key>StandardOutPath</key>
   ...and 7 more line(s)
Contents of /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.logmein.raupdate.plist
   - mod date: Nov 10 20:46:56 2014
   - checksum: 3493110929
   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
   <plist version="1.0">
    <dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.logmein.raupdate</string>
    <key>OnDemand</key>
    <true/>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <false/>
    <key>KeepAlive</key>
    <false/>
    <key>LaunchOnlyOnce</key>
    <true/>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
    <string>/Library/Application Support/LogMeIn/update/raupdate</string>
    <string>/s</string>
    </array>
    <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
    <string>/Library/Logs/LogMeIn/stderr.log</string>
    <key>StandardOutPath</key>
    <string>/Library/Logs/LogMeIn/stdout.log</string>
    <key>WorkingDirectory</key>
    <string>/Library/Application Support/LogMeIn/bin/</string>
   ...and 2 more line(s)
Contents of /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2.Agent.plist
   - mod date: Sep 1 15:15:35 2014
   - checksum: 2214847194
   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
   <plist version="1.0">
   <dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2.Agent</string>
    <key>MachServices</key>
    <dict>
    <key>com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2.Agent</key>
    <true/>
    </dict>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
    <string>/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2.Agent</string>
    </array>
    <key>ServiceIPC</key>
    <true/>
    <key>Sockets</key>
    <dict>
    <key>MasterSocket</key>
    <dict>
    <key>SockFamily</key>
    <string>Unix</string>
    <key>SockPathMode</key>
    <integer>438</integer>
   ...and 8 more line(s)
Contents of /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.sharpcast.xfsmond.plist
   - mod date: May 4 20:28:27 2013
   - checksum: 3377386094
   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//ENhttp://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
   
   <plist version="1.0">
   <dict>
    <key>Disabled</key>
    <false/>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.sharpcast.xfsmond</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
    <string>/Library/Application Support/SugarSync/scxfsmond</string>
    <string>-log</string>
    <string>error</string>
    <string>-launchd</string>
    </array>
    <key>Sockets</key>
    <dict>
    <key>Listeners</key>
    <dict>
    <key>SockFamily</key>
    <string>Unix</string>
    <key>SockPathMode</key>
    <integer>438</integer>
    <key>SockPathName</key>
   ...and 14 more line(s)
Contents of Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.ARM.UUID.plist
   - mod date: Jul 24 11:11:09 2013
   - checksum: 394026997
   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
   <plist version="1.0">
   <dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.adobe.ARM.UUID</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
    <string>/Applications/Adobe Reader.app/Contents/MacOS/Updater/Adobe Reader Updater Helper.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Reader Updater Helper</string>
    <string>semi-auto</string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
    <key>StartInterval</key>
    <integer>12600</integer>
   </dict>
   </plist>
Contents of Library/LaunchAgents/com.google.keystone.agent.plist
   - mod date: Nov 30 14:26:35 2014
   - checksum: 4084537214
   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
   <plist version="1.0">
   <dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.google.keystone.user.agent</string>
    <key>LimitLoadToSessionType</key>
    <string>Aqua</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
     <string>/Users/USER/Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bu ndle/Contents/Resources/GoogleSoftwareUpdateAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/GoogleSoftw areUpdateAgent</string>
     <string>-runMode</string>
     <string>ifneeded</string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
    <key>StartInterval</key>
    <integer>3523</integer>
    <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
    <string>/dev/null</string>
    <key>StandardOutPath</key>
    <string>/dev/null</string>
   </dict>
   </plist>
Listeners
   cupsd: ipp
User login items
   Garmin Express Service
   - /Applications/Garmin Express.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/Garmin Express Service.app
   Dropbox
   - /Applications/Dropbox.app
   Google Chrome
   - /Applications/Google Chrome.app
   ThisLife Uploader
   - /Applications/ThisLife Uploader.app
   WDQuickView
   - /Library/Application Support/WDSmartWare/WDQuickView.app
Safari extensions
   Evernote Web Clipper
   - com.evernote.safari.clipper
Widgets
   iCal
   Earth
Restricted files: 339
Lockfiles: 101
Elapsed time (s): 844
Wow, that's a lot of data for you to sift through, but I suppose you know what you are looking to find. I bet you earned every one of those points. Thanks, Linc. All the folks in the world waiting for me to share their photos with them thank you as well : ) Cathleen

Upgraded from 10.6.8 to Mavericks last week on my MacBook Pro running the 2.4 GHz i5 and it's painfully slow on start-up- I mean, 5 minutes or more, to be fully functional... Is this normal?

Upgraded from 10.6.8 to Mavericks last week on my MacBook Pro running the 2.4 GHz i5 and it's painfully slow on start-up- I mean, 5 minutes or more, to be fully functional... Is this normal?

Try these in order testing your system after each to see if it's back to normal:
1. a. Resetting your Mac's PRAM and NVRAM
    b. Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)
2. Restart the computer in Safe Mode, then restart again, normally. If this doesn't help, then:
     Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the
     COMMAND and R keys until the Utilities 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.
3. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows.
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU 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 DU and return to the main menu. Select Restart from the Apple menu.
     Reinstall the 10.9.2 update: OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 Update (Combo).
4. Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion, Mavericks: Reboot from the Recovery HD. Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion, Mavericks from the Utilities menu, 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.
Reinstall the 10.9.2 update: OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 Update (Combo).

PAINFULLY slow- can take 4 min to infinity to change tabs!

I have a late 2008 MacBook Pro (original unibody MBP) that's running PAINFULLY slow! I used to be able to run 2 browsers with 15 tabs each, Photoshop, and word all at once. Over the last couple months, I can have as little as a browser with a few tabs and it grinds to a halt. I can simply click on a tab, or on a drop down menu, and I'll get the spinning beach ball for 4 or 5 minutes. Even cmd-opt-esc is unresponsive. Then, minutes later, it'll instantly execute anything I commanded over the last several minutes. Firefox seems to be the worst offender, but it can happen no matter what's running. It can happen immediately after rebooting, too (I used to only have to reboot every few weeks, now it's several times per day)
CPU load is 98% idle after it catches up, but once it catches up and the graph refreshes and I can see it was about 60% user load and 15% system while it was choking on the monumental task of opening the "File" drop-down menu
There are 482 threads and 129 processes.
This is the original unibody Mac with 2.4 ghz core 2 duo. It's been upgraded with 4GB of ram (2.7 used) and a 1TB hard drive. I did those upgrades 2 years ago and they've worked fine until recently. Clicking "get info" on the HD says 333 GB are free, but under "about this mac" it says 121 GB are free and 211 are used for "backup". I'm running OS-X 10.9.2 and it says there are no updates to install.
I've reset system manager
I've reset PRAM
I've fixed disk permissions.
No effect
I know I don't have the speediest machine, but even a mid-80's mac could smoothly handle a drop-down menu, and this is a recent problem. I'm at a loss here, guys. Any idea? My computer is quickly becoming unusable!

Great- Thanks! Here's the info...
Hardware Information:
          MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2008)
          MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro5,1
          1 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2 cores
          4 GB RAM
Video Information:
          NVIDIA GeForce 9400M - VRAM: 256 MB
          NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT - VRAM: 256 MB
System Software:
          OS X 10.9.2 (13C1021) - Uptime: 0 days 3:17:46
Disk Information:
          SAMSUNG HM100UI disk0 : (1 TB)
                    EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
                    Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 999.35 GB (121.34 GB free)
                    Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
          MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-868
USB Information:
          Apple Inc. Built-in iSight
          Apple Inc. BRCM2046 Hub
                    Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
          Apple, Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
          Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Thunderbolt Information:
Gatekeeper:
          Anywhere
Kernel Extensions:
          [not loaded] com.parallels.kext.prl_hid_hook (4.0 3522.205912) Support
          [not loaded] com.parallels.kext.prl_hypervisor (4.0 3522.205912) Support
          [not loaded] com.parallels.kext.prl_netbridge (4.0 3522.205912) Support
          [not loaded] com.parallels.kext.prl_usb_connect (4.0 3522.205912) Support
          [not loaded] com.parallels.kext.prl_vnic (4.0 3522.205912) Support
          [not loaded] com.roxio.TDIXController (1.7) Support
Startup Items:
          FanControlDaemon: Path: /Library/StartupItems/FanControlDaemon
Launch Daemons:
          [loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist Support
          [loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist Support
          [loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist Support
Launch Agents:
          [running] com.canon.MFManager.plist Support
          [loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist Support
User Launch Agents:
          [failed] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist Support
          [loaded] com.facebook.videochat.[redacted].plist Support
          [loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2Helper.diskSpaceWatcher.plist Support
          [loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2Helper.scheduledScan.plist Support
          [loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2Helper.trashWatcher.plist Support
User Login Items:
          Temperature Monitor
          Quıcĸsıɩⅴεʀ
          WDQuickView
          HP Scheduler
Internet Plug-ins:
          o1dbrowserplugin: Version: 5.3.1.18536 Support
          Google Earth Web Plug-in: Version: 6.1 Support
          Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
          Flip4Mac WMV Plugin: Version: 2.3.2.6 Support
          Silverlight: Version: 5.1.20913.0 - SDK 10.6 Support
          FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 13.0.0.206 - SDK 10.6 Support
          Flash Player: Version: 13.0.0.206 - SDK 10.6 Support
          iPhotoPhotocast: Version: 7.0
          googletalkbrowserplugin: Version: 5.3.1.18536 Support
          QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
          AdobePDFViewer: Version: 9.5.4 Support
          CANONiMAGEGATEWAYDL: Version: 3.1.0.2 Support
          GarminGpsControl: Version: 2.8.2.0 Release Support
          SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.3.6 - SDK 10.6 Support
          JavaAppletPlugin: Version: 14.9.0 - SDK 10.7 Check version
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 iTunes Plug-ins:
          TuneUp Visualizer: Version: 2.4.0 - SDK 10.7 Support
User Internet Plug-ins:
          fbplugin_1_0_3: Version: (null) Support
          WebEx: Version: 1.0 Support
3rd Party Preference Panes:
          Fan Control Support
          Flash Player Support
          Flip4Mac WMV Support
          Growl Support
          MacFUSE Support
Time Machine:
          Skip System Files: NO
          Mobile backups: ON
          Auto backup: YES
          Volumes being backed up:
                    Macintosh HD: Disk size: 930.71 GB Disk used: 817.71 GB
          Destinations:
                    Time Machine Backups [Local]
                    Total size: 3
                    Total number of backups: 22
                    Oldest backup: 2014-03-12 09:26:21 +0000
                    Last backup: 2014-04-07 15:52:25 +0000
                    Size of backup disk: Excellent
                              Backup size 3 > (Disk size 930.71 GB X 3)
                    Seagate-40A98A TM Backup [Network] (Last used)
                    Total size: 4
                    Total number of backups: 34
                    Oldest backup: 2014-03-12 09:26:21 +0000
                    Last backup: 2014-04-21 16:19:38 +0000
                    Size of backup disk: Excellent
                              Backup size 4 > (Disk size 930.71 GB X 3)
          Time Machine details may not be accurate.
          All volumes being backed up may not be listed.
Top Processes by CPU:
               0%          Google Chrome
               0%          TemperatureMonitor
               0%          WindowServer
               0%          fontd
               0%          FanControlDaemon
Top Processes by Memory:
          324 MB          Finder
          123 MB          com.apple.IconServicesAgent
          119 MB          Google Chrome
          90 MB          mds_stores
          79 MB          com.apple.WebKit.WebContent
Virtual Memory Information:
          125 MB          Free RAM
          1.58 GB          Active RAM
          1.51 GB          Inactive RAM
          552 MB          Wired RAM
          2.23 GB          Page-ins
          0 B          Page-outs

Arch just got painfully slow (for the third time)

arch has slowly been getting slower bit by bit, but I let it slide for a while. started up my laptop today and everything is painfully slow. Pacman takes a couple minutes just to retrieve new update lists, yaourt takes minutes before displaying anything, when I start X/Openbox it's about 5 or 10 minutes before I can even right click open a menu. Yesterday, I was opening up GIMP in a matter of seconds, but it just took about a minute or two to load. Can't imagine this'd be a hardware issue because the laptop is a few months old and hasn't had any problems - other OSes on the drive load fine and all. My / partition is ext3 and has a bit under 1GB of free space - I didn't realize how much space I needed to distribute everything when I formatted everything and I've been meaning to repartition the drive. Is there any chance that could be what's slowing down my computer so much?
Last edited by sa (2008-10-02 03:40:47)

[sa@psd ~]$ mount
/dev/sda7 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /dev type ramfs (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/sda5 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sda8 on /home type jfs (rw)
/dev/sda1 on /ntfs type fuseblk (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)
[sa@psd ~]$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda7 8.0G 6.5G 1.1G 87% /
none 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda5 43M 17M 25M 40% /boot
/dev/sda8 55G 4.2G 51G 8% /home
/dev/sda1 100G 39G 62G 39% /ntfs
[sa@psd ~]$
How can I measure disk activity?
Something else must be happening because even the bash prompt at startup after logging in takes a little while to show up. I'm not sure what to do
Last edited by sa (2008-09-25 00:56:29)

Macbook Pro running painfully slow

Hello,
I'm working on a MacBook Pro that's suddenly started to run painfully slow. I've repaired permissions, reset the PRAM, updated everything to Mavericks, and even though it might be running slightly faster, I'm still encountering the pinwheel every time I start anything up or really try to click on anything. I'm pasting my etrecheck info below. Any guidance is most welcome and appreciated!
EtreCheck version: 1.9.11 (43) - report generated May 31, 2014 at 1:33:49 PM EDT
Hardware Information:
    MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012)
    MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro9,2
    1 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2 cores
    4 GB RAM
Video Information:
    Intel HD Graphics 4000 - VRAM: (null)
System Software:
    OS X 10.9.3 (13D65) - Uptime: 1 day 5:55:49
Disk Information:
    TOSHIBA MK5065GSXF disk0 : (500.11 GB)
        EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
        Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 499.25 GB (479.55 GB free)
        Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
    HL-DT-ST DVDRW GS31N
USB Information:
    Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
    Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
        Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
    Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
    Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Thunderbolt Information:
    Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Gatekeeper:
    Mac App Store and identified developers
Launch Daemons:
    [loaded]    com.adobe.fpsaud.plist Support
User Login Items:
    None
Internet Plug-ins:
    Silverlight: Version: 5.1.20913.0 - SDK 10.6 Support
    FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 13.0.0.214 - SDK 10.6 Support
    Flash Player: Version: 13.0.0.214 - SDK 10.6 Support
    QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
    Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
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
3rd Party Preference Panes:
    Flash Player Support
Time Machine:
    Time Machine not configured!
Top Processes by CPU:
         3%    WindowServer
         0%    imagent
Top Processes by Memory:
    401 MB    firefox
    193 MB    mds_stores
    147 MB    softwareupdated
    131 MB    com.apple.IconServicesAgent
    78 MB    loginwindow
Virtual Memory Information:
    1.29 GB    Free RAM
    1.57 GB    Active RAM
    504 MB    Inactive RAM
    660 MB    Wired RAM
    1.96 GB    Page-ins
    0 B    Page-outs

OS X Mavericks: If your Mac runs slowly?
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH13895
Startup in Safe Mode
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14204
Repair Disk
Steps 1 through 7
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5836
Reset SMC.     http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
Choose the method for:
"Resetting SMC on portables with a battery you should not remove on your own".

I tried to update the latest software update for my MacBook pro (which was on 10/12) and after it started to update it restarted like normal but when it started back up it was running painfully slow and none oft programs will open.They all quit unexpectal

I tried to update the latest software update for my MacBook pro (which was on 10/12) and after it started to update it restarted like normal but when it started back up it was running painfully slow and none oft programs will open.They all quit unexpectedly. iTunes microsoft word all of them quit unexpectedly. Help!

Exact same problem with my 2010 MBP 2.4ghz 4gb ram 10.6.8. iTunes said update was needed, Software Update ran with various updates including a security update, truthfully didn't pay much attention, I always install the Apple updates. After the restart it took 3-4 times longer than normal to get to the login screen, same to get to the desktop but I'm familiar with that occurring on update restarts. Unfortunately it got worse from there. Performed a full shutdown and startup. Same long boot. After the desktop finally loads every mouse button press received a 2 minute beachball. I use menu-meters and both processors are under 10%. Waited a few minutes for disk utilities to launch, repair permissions estimates 3 hours for a typical <10 minute process. Activity monitor shows nothing over 10% CPU most of the time however ReportCrash pops to the top often. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. BTW zero problems until this update.

Syncing songs painfully slow on an iphone 6 running the latest software.

Hello there,
I've been having problems syncing my tracks to spotify on my iPhone 6. It's painfully slow in that just to sync 18 tracks, the phone has to time out at least 5 times to "pause track syncing because i've been inactive for too long".
Is anyone else having this problem on the iphone 6?
Thanks:)

To sync, the Spotify app needs to stay open, otherwise it will stop syncing in the background. This is due to Apple's background activity restrictions.
The best way is to go into the iPhone settings:
Settings --> General --> Auto Lock --> Set it to "NEVER"
Now leave the Spotify app open on your iPhone and let it sit on a table plugged in to charge
When you are done, make sure to turn "Auto Lock" back to your preferred setting.

Imac is painfully slow. Opening up applications takes 2 to 3 minutes. This occured just after a failed attempt at downloading a TV episode on Itunes.

I was downloading a TV episode in Itunes when it froze. The download was not completed. I had to use the emergency shut down processes and then restart my Imac. Everything now takes 2 to 3 minutes to open up. I have access to all my applications,as far as I know, but everything including my internet is painfully slow. Almost like itues is still running in the background or something.

Go to user>Applications>Utilities>Activity Monitor and check to see what applications are using all your memory. You can quit the offending app in Activity Monitor - please let us know what happens,

Good Spec Mac Mini got painfully slow

Hi All
Following reading posts on this forum, I have upgraded my 2011 Mac Mini from 4gb to 8gb Memory, but it is still painfully slow, with the spinning beach ball always in play.
I now have a Core i7, 2.7ghz Mac Mini, with 8GB DDR3 memory, 500 mb disc (with 300gb free), running OSX 10.9.1. I run Microsoft office and Iphoto and thats pretty much it, but even using Iphoto can take seconds for ecah photo to move, and typing emails often means waiting for the text to catch up with my typing.
In my frustration I copied everything off, re formatted the hard disc, and re installed everything, but its still the same speed. The Activity monitor shows very little CPU activity, although the memory shows as 7.87GB used out of 8GB, not sure if that is normal.
Any ideas would be really welcome, as its getting very frustrating to use, when I first purchased the MAC mini it was blindingly fast on everything.
Thanks
Martyn

If you don't already have a current backup, back up all data before doing anything else. This procedure is a diagnostic test. It changes nothing, for better or worse, and therefore will not, in itself, solve your problem. The backup is necessary on general principle, not because of anything suggested in this comment. There are ways to back up a computer that isn't fully functional. Ask if you need guidance.
Third-party system modifications are a common cause of usability problems. By a “system modification,” I mean software that affects the operation of other software — potentially for the worse. The procedure will help identify which such modifications you've installed, as well as some other aspects of the configuration that may be related to the problem.
Don’t be alarmed by the seeming complexity of these instructions — they’re easy to carry out. Here's a brief summary: In each of two steps, you copy a line of text from this web page into a window in another application. You wait about a minute. Then you paste some other text, which will have been copied automatically, back into a reply on this page. The sequence is copy; paste; paste again. That's all there is to it. Details follow.
You may have started the computer in "safe" mode. Preferably, these steps should be taken while booted in “normal” mode. If the system is now running in safe mode and is bootable in normal mode, reboot as usual. If it only boots in safe mode, use that.
Below are instructions to enter UNIX shell commands. They do nothing but produce human-readable output. However, you need to think carefully before running any program at the behest of a stranger on a public message board. If you question the safety of the procedure suggested here — which you should — search this site for other discussions in which it’s been followed without any report of ill effects. If you can't satisfy yourself that these instructions are safe, don't follow them.
The commands will line-wrap or scroll in your browser, but each one is really just a single long line, all of which must be selected. You can accomplish this easily by triple-clicking anywhere in the line. The whole line will highlight, and you can then copy it.
If you have more than one user account, Step 2 must be taken as an administrator. Ordinarily that would be the user created automatically when you booted the system for the first time. Step 1 should be taken as the user who has the problem, if different. Most personal Macs have only one user, and in that case this paragraph doesn’t apply.
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
When you launch Terminal, a text window will open with a line already in it, ending either in a dollar sign (“$”) or a percent sign (“%”). If you get the percent sign, enter “sh” and press return. You should then get a new line ending in a dollar sign.
Step 1
Triple-click anywhere in the line of text below on this page to select it:
PB=/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy; PR () { [[ "$o" ]] && o=$(sed 's/^/   /' <<< "$o") && printf '\n%s:\n\n%s\n' "$1" "$o"; }; PC () { o=$(grep [^[:blank:]] "$2"); PR "$1"; }; PF () { o=$($PB -c Print "$2" | awk -F'= ' \/$3'/{print $2}'); PR "$1"; }; PN () { [[ $o -eq 0 ]] || printf "\n%s: %s\n" "$1" $o; }; { system_profiler SPSoftwareDataType | sed '8!d;s/^ *//'; o=$(system_profiler SPDiagnosticsDataType | sed '5,6!d'); fgrep -q P <<< "$o" && o=; PR "POST"; o=$(($(vm_stat | awk '/Pageo/{sub("\\.",""); print $2}')/256)); o=$((o>=1024?o:0)); PN "Pageouts (MiB)"; s=( $(sar -u 1 10 | sed '$!d') ); [[ ${s[4]} -lt 90 ]] && o=$( printf 'User %s%%\t\tSystem %s%%' ${s[1]} ${s[3]} ) || o=; PR "Total CPU usage"; [[ "$o" ]] && o=$(ps acrx -o comm,ruid,%cpu | sed '2!d'); PR "Max %CPU by process (name, UID, %)"; o=$(kextstat -kl | grep -v com\\.apple | cut -c53- | cut -d\< -f1); PR "Loaded extrinsic kernel extensions"; o=$(launchctl list | sed 1d | awk '!/0x|com\.apple|org\.(x|openbsd)|\.[0-9]+$/{print $3}'); PR "Loaded extrinsic user agents"; o=$(launchctl getenv DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES); PR "Inserted libraries"; PC "cron configuration" /e*/cron*; o=$(crontab -l | grep [^[:blank:]]); PR "User cron tasks"; PC "Global launchd configuration" /e*/lau*; PC "Per-user launchd configuration" ~/.lau*; PF "Global login items" /L*/P*/loginw* Path; PF "Per-user login items" L*/P*/*loginit* Name; PF "Safari extensions" L*/Saf*/*/E*.plist Bundle | sed 's/\..*$//;s/-[1-9]$//'; o=$(find ~ $TMPDIR.. $ -flags +sappnd,schg,uappnd,uchg -o ! -user $UID -o ! -perm -600 $ | wc -l); PN "Restricted user files"; cd; o=$(find -L /S*/L*/E* {,/}L*/{A*d,Compon,Ex,In,Keyb,Mail/Bu,P*P,Qu,Scripti,Servi,Spo}* -type d -name Contents -prune | while read d; do ID=$($PB -c 'Print :CFBundleIdentifier' "$d/Info.plist") || ID=; ID=${ID:-No bundle ID}; egrep -qv "^com\.apple\.[^x]|Accusys|ArcMSR|ATTO|HDPro|HighPoint|driver\.stex|hp-fax|JMicron|microsoft\.MDI|print|SoftRAID" <<< $ID && printf '%s\n\t(%s)\n' "${d%/Contents}" "$ID"; done); PR "Extrinsic loadable bundles"; o=$(find /u*/{,*/}lib -type f -exec sh -c 'file -b "$1" | grep -qw shared && ! codesign -v "$1"' {} {} \; -print); PR "Unsigned shared libraries"; o=$(system_profiler SPFontsDataType | egrep "Valid: N|Duplicate: Y" | wc -l); PN "Font problems"; for d in {,/}L*/{La,Priv,Sta}*; do o=$(ls -A "$d"); PR "$d"; done; } 2> /dev/null | pbcopy; echo $'\nStep 1 done'
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Then click anywhere in the Terminal window and paste (command-V). I've tested these instructions only with the Safari web browser. If you use another browser, you may have to press the return key after pasting.
The command may take up to a few minutes to run, depending on how many files you have and the speed of the computer. Wait for the line "Step 1 done" to appear below what you entered. The output of the command will beautomatically copied to the Clipboard. All you have to do is paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-Vagain. Please don't copy anything from the Terminal window. No typing is involved in this step.
Step 2
Remember that you must be logged in as an administrator for this step. Do as in Step 1 with this line:
PR () { [[ "$o" ]] && o=$(sed 's/^/   /' <<< "$o") && printf '\n%s:\n\n%s\n' "$1" "$o"; }; { o=$(sudo launchctl list | sed 1d | awk '!/0x|com\.(apple|openssh|vix\.cron)|org\.(amav|apac|calendarse|cups|dove|isc|ntp|post[fg]|x)/{print $3}'); PR "Loaded extrinsic daemons"; o=$(sudo defaults read com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook); PR "Login hook"; o=$(sudo crontab -l | grep [^[:blank:]]); PR "Root cron tasks"; o=$(syslog -k Sender kernel -k Message CReq 'GPU |hfs: Ru|I/O e|find tok|n Cause: -|NVDA\(|pagin|timed? ?o' | tail -n25 | awk '/:/{$4=""; print}'); PR "Log check"; } 2>&- | pbcopy; echo $'\nStep 2 done'
This time you'll be prompted for your login password, which you do have to type. Nothing will be displayed when you type it. Type it carefully and then press return. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. Heed that warning, but don't post it. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
You can then quit Terminal. Please note:
☞ Steps 1 and 2 are all copy-and-paste — type only your login password when prompted.
☞ When you type your password, you won't see what you're typing.
☞ If you don’t have a password, set one before taking Step 2. If that’s not possible, skip the step.
☞ Step 2 might not produce any output, in which case the Clipboard will be empty. Step 1 will always produce something.
☞ The commands don't change anything, and merely running them will do neither good nor harm.
☞ Remember to post the output of both steps (unless you had to skip Step 2.) It's already in the Clipboard after you complete each step. You don't have to copy it. Just paste into a reply
☞ If any personal information, such as your name or email address, appears in the output of either command, anonymize it before posting. Usually that won't be necessary.
☞ Don't post what you see in the Terminal window. The output is copied automatically to the Clipboard.
☞ Don't paste the output of Step 1 into the Terminal window. Paste it into a reply.

Safari is now painfully slow??

I keep my MacPro updated every week. But recently my Safari surfing experience has been PAINFULLY slow -- I mean really really really slow.
Anyone else having this problem?
Also notice boot time with my MacPro has increased significantly with a ton a disk activity for the first 3 minutes.
I run Boot Camp on my MacPro and under Vista x64 surfing the web under IE7 is considerably faster. I also ran a speedtest (www.speakeasy.net) to several different locations and I'm getting good down speed at 10686 kbps and good up speed at 1170 kbps.
So it appears to be specific to Safari -- it's as if something seriously slowed down how it reads and displays the html. Are there any Safari specific settings that might help speed things up?
Thanks, Rob.

The following usually works on both Tiger and Leopard:
(First, if yours is an Intel Mac, check that Safari is not running in Rosetta, which is enough to slow it to a crawl.)
Adding DNS codes to your Network Settings, should gives good results in terms of speed-up:
Open System Preferences/Network. Double click on your connection type, or select it in the drop-down menu. Click on TCP/IP and in the box marked 'DNS Servers' enter the following two numbers:
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
(An explanation of why that is both safe and a good idea can be read here: http://www.labnol.org/internet/tools/opendsn-what-is-opendns-why-required-2/2587 / )
Whilst in System Preferences/Network you should also turn off 'IPv6' in your preference pane, as otherwise you may not get the full speed benefit (the DNS resolver will default to making SRV queries). If you want to know what IPv6 is:
This is Apple's guidance on iPv6:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/8708.html
Click on Apply Now and close the window.
Restart Safari, and repair permissions.
If that didn't do it, then try this as well:
Empty Safari's cache (from the Safari menu), then close Safari.
Go to Home/Library/Safari and delete the following files:
form values
download.plist
Then go to Home/Library/Preferences and delete
com.apple.Safari.plist
Repair permissions (in Disk Utility).
Start up Safari again, and things should have improved.

Howto speed up painfully slow computer???

I have a 12" powerbook g4 that was the last model before the intel macs. it has a 1.5 Gig processor and 512 megs of ram. it has an 80 gig HD with 15 gigs free.
it is painfully slow. i don't run a lot of apps at the same time, i have restarted, i have repaired disk permissions and run disk utility. i also ran onyx.
my wife has a pre-intel ibook that has less power but runs significantly faster running essentially the same apps.
how can i speed up my computer?
thank you.

Kappy's Personal Suggestions for OS X Maintenance
For disk repairs use Disk Utility. For situations DU cannot handle the best third-party utilities are: Disk Warrior; DW only fixes problems with the disk directory, but most disk problems are caused by directory corruption; Disk Warrior 4.0 is now Intel Mac compatible. TechTool Pro provides additional repair options including file repair and recovery, system diagnostics, and disk defragmentation. TechTool Pro 4.6.1 is Leopard compatible; Drive Genius is similar to TechTool Pro in terms of the various repair services provided. The current version, 1.5.1, is Intel Mac compatible.
OS X performs certain maintenance functions that are scheduled to occur on a daily, weekly, or monthly period. The maintenance scripts run in the early AM only if the computer is turned on 24/7 (no sleep.) If this isn't the case, then an excellent solution is to download and install a shareware utility such as Macaroni, JAW PseudoAnacron, or Anacron that will automate the maintenance activity regardless of whether the computer is turned off or asleep.
OS X automatically defrags files less than 20 MBs in size, so unless you have a disk full of very large files there's little need for defragmenting the hard drive. As for virus protection there are few if any such animals affecting OS X. You can protect the computer easily using the freeware Open Source virus protection software ClamXAV. Personally I would avoid most commercial anti-virus software because of their potential for causing problems.
I would also recommend downloading the shareware utility TinkerTool System that you can use for periodic maintenance such as removing old logfiles and archives, clearing caches, etc.
For emergency repairs install the freeware utility Applejack. If you cannot start up in OS X, you may be able to start in single-user mode from which you can run Applejack to do a whole set of repair and maintenance routines from the commandline. Note that presently AppleJack is not compatible with Leopard.
When you install any new system software or updates be sure to repair the hard drive and permissions beforehand. I also recommend booting into safe mode before doing system software updates.
Get an external Firewire drive at least equal in size to the internal hard drive and make (and maintain) a bootable clone/backup. You can make a bootable clone using the Restore option of Disk Utility. You can also make and maintain clones with good backup software. My personal recommendations are (order is not significant):
1. Retrospect Desktop (Commercial - not yet universal binary)
2. Synchronize! Pro X (Commercial)
3. Synk (Backup, Standard, or Pro)
4. Deja Vu (Shareware)
5. PsynchX 2.1.1 and RsyncX 2.1 (Freeware)
6. Carbon Copy Cloner (Freeware - 3.0 is a Universal Binary)
7. SuperDuper! (Commercial)
8. Data Backup (Commercial)
The following utilities can also be used for backup, but cannot create bootable clones:
1. Backup (requires a .Mac account with Apple both to get the software and to use it.)
2. Toast
3. Impression
4. arRSync
Apple's Backup is a full backup tool capable of also backing up across multiple media such as CD/DVD. However, it cannot create bootable backups. It is primarily an "archiving" utility as are the other two.
Impression and Toast are disk image based backups, only. Particularly useful if you need to backup to CD/DVD across multiple media.
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQs on maintenance, optimization, virus protection, and backup and restore.
Additional suggestions will be found in Mac Maintenance Quick Assist.
Referenced software can be found at www.versiontracker.com and www.macupdate.com.

ITunes 9 painfully slow to load

With all the new graphics & album art that loads & animation that has to load iTunes load so painfully slow & don't let Time Machine run at the same time! Is there anything I can do to either turn off all the additional art work that loads or can I downgrade back to the previous iTUnes?
Or is there something in Utilities maybe I can do?

I'll add my experience to this. It takes sometimes as long as 15 minutes to load my library, during which iTunes is "Not Responding," and churns my hard drive so that my entire system is nearly unusable. My system still has sufficient memory, so it is not paging.
Shutting down in the same experience. I just timed it at 10 minutes, with the same hard drive churn and nearly unresponsive system. The RAM usage goes as high as 1GB of ram, and in Activity Monitor, it is writing for minutes at ~20MB/s. I thought that my library was somehow corrupted, but this seems to be a common experience?
Why didn't Steve Jobs demo this great new feature?

I upgraded my imac to Mountain Lion and my iMac has been painfully slow ever since. Any ideas what might be wrong and how to fix it?

I upgraded my iMac to Mountain Lion and it has been painfully slow ever since. Any ideas on what might be happening and how to fix it?

First, back up all data immediately, as your boot drive might be failing.
There are a few other possible causes of generalized slow performance that you can rule out easily.
If you have many image or video files on the Desktop with preview icons, move them to another folder.
If applicable, uncheck all boxes in the iCloud preference pane.
Disconnect all non-essential wired peripherals and remove aftermarket expansion cards, if any.
Otherwise, take the steps below when you notice the slowdown.
Step 1
Launch the Activity Monitor application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Activity Monitor in the icon grid.
Select the CPU tab of the Activity Monitor window.
Select All Processes from the menu in the toolbar, if not already selected.
Click the heading of the % CPU column in the process table to sort the entries by CPU usage. You may have to click it twice to get the highest value at the top. What is it, and what is the process? Also post the values for % User, % System, and % Idle at the bottom of the window.
Select the System Memory tab. What values are shown in the bottom part of the window for Page outs and Swap used?
Next, select the Disk Activity tab. Post the approximate values shown for Reads in/sec and Writes out/sec (not Reads in and Writes out.)
Step 2
If you have more than one user account, you must be logged in as an administrator to carry out this step.
Launch the Console application in the same way you launched Activity Monitor. Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Select the 50 or so most recent entries in the log. Copy them to the Clipboard (command-C). Paste into a reply to this message (command-V). You're looking for entries at the end of the log, not at the beginning.
When posting a log extract, be selective. Don't post more than is requested.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some personal information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting. That should be easy to do if your extract is not too long.

Mid 2011 Macbook Air Painfully slow.

Mid 2011 Macbook Air Painfully slow.
Hey everyone. I am writing about my 13 inch Mid 2011 Macbook Air.
Recently it has been extremely slow and on occasion has not started up.
I have reset the PRAM and SMC already, yet it is still very slow. I have a couple theories about what might have caused it, are they plausible?
Theory 1: It’s a software problem. I tried to upgrade to 10.8.2 but halfway through the upgrade the computer restarted and somehow I was still on 10.8.1. For fear of a big issue happening I didn’t try to upgrade again. Perhaps it is a flaw in Apple’s software update?
The important thing to note about this update is that I tried to install 10.8.2 around a month or two weeks BEFORE I started having problems. So if these issues were due to 10.8.2’s failed update then it certainly was a delayed reaction.
I would of course like to update to 10.8.2 BUT as my computer is acting EXTREMELY slow and having trouble turning on occasionally I am worried the software update will completely brick the machine. Is that possible? Should I actually finish through with the software update?
Theory 2: It was an electricity problem.
The computer died when I was sitting at a café plugged into their wall sockets. A few days later when I came back to the same spot with my old macbook which is now being used in lieu of the Air it suddenly turned black for a little while. Sensing it might be an electricity surge or something with their system I unplugged the cable. I am not sure if that was paranoia though.
Can an electricity surge or a bad outlet fry a computer? Can it fry the ram so the computer is extremely slow? Does that theory hold any water?
Thanks for your help diagnosing this problem.
All the best.

Please read this whole message before doing anything.
This procedure is a diagnostic test. It won’t solve your problem. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
Third-party system modifications are a common cause of usability problems. By a “system modification,” I mean software that affects the operation of other software — potentially for the worse. The following procedure will help identify which such modifications you've installed. Don’t be alarmed by the complexity of these instructions — they’re easy to carry out and won’t change anything on your Mac.
These steps are to be taken while booted in “normal” mode, not in safe mode. If you’re now running in safe mode, reboot as usual before continuing.
Below are instructions to enter some UNIX shell commands. The commands are harmless, but they must be entered exactly as given in order to work. If you have doubts about the safety of the procedure suggested here, search this site for other discussions in which it’s been followed without any report of ill effects.
Some of the commands will line-wrap or scroll in your browser, but each one is really just a single line, all of which must be selected. You can accomplish this easily by triple-clicking anywhere in the line. The whole line will highlight, and you can then either copy or drag it. The headings “Step 1” and so on are not part of the commands.
Note: If you have more than one user account, Step 2 must be taken as an administrator. Ordinarily that would be the user created automatically when you booted the system for the first time. The other steps should be taken as the user who has the problem, if different. Most personal Macs have only one user, and in that case this paragraph doesn’t apply.
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
When you launch Terminal, a text window will open with a line already in it, ending either in a dollar sign (“$”) or a percent sign (“%”). If you get the percent sign, enter “sh” and press return. You should then get a new line ending in a dollar sign.
Step 1
Copy or drag — do not type — the line below into the Terminal window, then press return:
kextstat -kl | awk '!/com\.apple/{printf "%s %s\n", $6, $7}'
Post the lines of output (if any) that appear below what you just entered (the text, please, not a screenshot.) You can omit the final line ending in “$”.
Step 2
Repeat with this line:
sudo launchctl list | sed 1d | awk '!/0x|com\.(apple|openssh|vix)|edu\.mit|org\.(amavis|apache|cups|isc|ntp|postfix|x)/{print $3}'
This time, you'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning not to screw up. You don't need to post the warning.
Note: If you don’t have a login password, you’ll need to set one before taking this step. If that’s not possible, skip to the next step.
Step 3
launchctl list | sed 1d | awk '!/0x|com\.apple|edu\.mit|org\.(x|openbsd)/{print $3}'
Step 4
ls -1A /e*/mach* {,/}L*/{Ad,Compon,Ex,Fram,In,Keyb,La,Mail/Bu,P*P,Priv,Qu,Scripti,Servi,Spo,Sta}* L*/Fonts 2> /dev/null
Important: If you formerly synchronized with a MobileMe account, your me.com email address may appear in the output of the above command. If so, anonymize it before posting.
Step 5
osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to get name of every login item' 2> /dev/null
Remember, steps 1-5 are all drag-and-drop or copy-and-paste, whichever you prefer — no typing, except your password. Also remember to post the output.
You can then quit Terminal.

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