Photoshop CS6 running extremely slow after graphics card switch

My old graphics card died (a evga 8800 Ultra Superclocked 756MB 384 bit), so I replaced it with a (XFX HD-455X-ZAFR Radeon HD 4550 1GB 64-bit DDR2 PCI Express 2.0 x16 ). I knew this was a less capable card but from reading other forums it seemed that GPU performance was not as big of an issue in Photoshop and the 4550 was a supported card by Photoshop. However, I was previously able to batch open about 15 (ish) photos at a time to work on in Photoshop. Now if I open more than 1 everything is VERY slow and even that 1 doesn't open as fast. Bigger photos appear blurry (but when I zoom in they are not) many filters are slower. Very annoying. Nothing else has changed on my computer, just the graphics card. Here are my specs (I know I need more RAM and have been considering an upgrade there but am not sure if I need to ditch my current video card as well)
Asustek p5e3 motherboard
Core 2 extreme qx9650 (quad core at 3.0 ghz)
4 GB of DDR3 1333mhz ram
(3) 500 GB 7200RPM hard drives
Radeon HD 4550 1GB 64-bit DDR2
500 Watt Power Supply

I don't mean to be critical, but why would you upgrade to an outdated card like the 4550? The 4000-series isn't even listed under the cards Photoshop is tested with any more.
Tested video cards for Photoshop CC and CC 2014
That said, a problem that can happen with a video card switch is that drivers get left in the system from the old one.
Maybe it would be a good start in diagnosing this for you go to into the Help - System Info menu, copy the data in the whole first section, and post it here.
-Noel

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I'm experiencing the same trouble. Photoshop takes 5 minutes to open then runs fine.
I recently bought a new iMac AND updated to Adobe Master Collection CS6. My concern is that PhotoShop now takes 5 minutes to open. The Photoshop desktop pops up immediately, but the moment you click on a tool or try to open a file (no matter the size) results in the spinning wheel for five minutes before you can do anything. After that, Photoshop appears to work fine.
What I’ve done:
Ran Adobe updater
Reset Photoshop Preferences
Validated all fonts and removed any trouble fonts
Ran the font test
Set font preview size to none
Cleared the Photoshop type cache and system cache
Disabled Symantec Endpoint
Tried running with the GPU processor on/off and in basic
Tried opening Photoshop with optional third party plug-ins turned off (still took five minutes but this time I didn’t even get the Photoshop desktop view until AFTER the five minutes)
I’m wondering since I migrated the files form my old computer (and older versions of Master Collection) did something get corrupted.
System Info
Adobe Photoshop Version: 13.0.6 (13.0.6 20131025.r.54 2013/10/25:21:00:00) x64
Operating System: Mac OS 10.9.4
System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:60, Stepping:3 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, HyperThreading
Physical processor count: 4
Logical processor count: 8
Processor speed: 3500 MHz
Built-in memory: 32768 MB
Free memory: 21330 MB
Memory available to Photoshop: 30850 MB
Memory used by Photoshop: 70 %
Image tile size: 1024K
Image cache levels: 4
OpenGL Drawing: Enabled.
OpenGL Drawing Mode: Advanced
OpenGL Allow Normal Mode: True.
OpenGL Allow Advanced Mode: True.
OpenGL Allow Old GPUs: Not Detected.
OpenCL Version: 1.2 (Apr 25 2014 22:04:25)
OpenGL Version: 2.1
Video Rect Texture Size: 16384
OpenGL Memory: 2047 MB
Video Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Video Card Renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M OpenGL Engine
Display: 1
Main Display
Display Depth: 32
Display Bounds: top=0, left=0, bottom=1440, right=2560
Video Renderer ID: 16918308
Video Card Memory: 2048 MB
Application folder: /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS6/
Photoshop scratch has async I/O enabled
Scratch volume(s):
Macintosh HD, 931.0G, 713.2G free
Required Plug-ins folder: /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS6/Adobe Photoshop CS6.app/Contents/Required/
Primary Plug-ins folder: /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS6/Plug-ins/
Additional Plug-ins folder: not set
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Apple updates available from the Software Update application are incremental updates. Delta updates are also incremental updates and are available from Apple Downloads (software updates are generally smaller than delta updates). The Combo updates contain all incremental updates and will update files that could have become corrupted.
Combo updaters will install on the same version as they're applying--no need to roll back or do a clean install. So if you think you've got a borked 10.8.4 install from a regular update, just run the 10.8.4 Combo Updater on that system.
"Delta" updaters can only take you from one version to the next. For example: 10.9.1 to 10.9.2. If somehow the 10.9.2 is missing something it should have, and that something isn't changed between 10.9.1 and 10.9.2 it will still be stale after the delta update.

How come my ps CS6 runs extremely slow?

After testing photoshop cs6, seeing how fast it worked on 3D on my pc I bought the web design and premium version. Time in between was several weeks. To my huge disappointement, the bought version runs extremely slow, mostly on 3D when I want to paint on target texture. Secondly I experiance a bug when I open my file and want to paint on targeted texture....brush shows inaccesible when wanting to paint. I do not mean greyed out, but the moment I hover over my 3d object it shows I cant paint (yes I have my layer selected;-). I have to fix this each time by changing targeted texture to some other and again switching back to the one I actually want to edit. As last thing, my OpenCL is greyed out.....maybe that causes the speed problems.....did not check with trial if it worked so not sure this is the issue=/....
When it comes to the speed I tried several things and now even reinstalled my whole pc hoping that would solve the problem.....it did not. Both CS6 photoshop 32-and 64-bit run slow on 3D.
I closed my trendmicro virusscanner to see if that would help....it speeded up only the start-up process but not the 3D. 3D works so slow that I have to wait 10 minutes after each move..just crazy....evenmore as it worked awesome with the trial version.
Also changed amount of memory assigned to ps by increasing to 80% and even 100%...nothing.
changed in graphic processors settings advanced into basic...nothing again.
No idea what to do next besides buying a new computer....I know I do not have a super strong one but as it worked perfectly I just don't get it. My pc runs this system:
Intel(R) Core (TM) 2CPU
[email protected] 2.66 Ghz
Ram 4GB
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
GeForce8800GTX
I have the feeling it is some conflict between an update of windows or graphic driver (I have the newest so my info tells me) and photoshop...any ideas what to do as this is extremely frustrating?
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR ANY HELP
In case it helps this is the copied system info from photoshop:
Adobe Photoshop Version: 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00) x64
Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit
Version: 6.1 Service Pack 1
System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:15, Stepping:6 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2, SSE3
Physical processor count: 2
Processor speed: 2660 MHz
Built-in memory: 4030 MB
Free memory: 2858 MB
Memory available to Photoshop: 3432 MB
Memory used by Photoshop: 60 %
Image tile size: 128K
Image cache levels: 4
OpenGL Drawing: Enabled.
OpenGL Drawing Mode: Advanced
OpenGL Allow Normal Mode: True.
OpenGL Allow Advanced Mode: True.
OpenGL Allow Old GPUs: Not Detected.
Video Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Video Card Renderer: GeForce 8800 GTX/PCIe/SSE2
Display: 1
Display Bounds:= top: 0, left: 0, bottom: 1200, right: 1920
Video Card Number: 1
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX
OpenCL Unavailable
Driver Version: 8.17.12.9573
Driver Date: 20120209000000.000000-000
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Video Mode: 1920 x 1200 x 4294967296 colors
Video Card Caption: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX
Video Card Memory: 768 MB
Video Rect Texture Size: 8192
Photoshop scratch has async I/O enabled
Scratch volume(s):
Startup, 488,3G, 448,7G free
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Flash:
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   Kuler
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12-08-2012
Installed newer graphic driver as its seemed Microsoft update had an older one installed on my pc. This one is straight from Nvidia site with 3D support. Nevertheless ps runs slow and especially 3D. 32 Bit runs tiny bit faster than 64-bit. Now my photoshop even crashes with 3D: 32 bit holds out longer then 64...last one freezes almost immediately and I can close it through task manager. After installing newer driver at least the 64 bit shows OPenCL , where 32-bit not....maybe thats normal...
I hope anyone can help me as I even checked the system requirements on adobe and mine should be more than fine.
Message was edited by: Nethergirl

Well, it must be a system-specific bug of some sort that's been introduced, because I was able to create a 4200 x 3500 image made by mapping an image of similar size to a cylinder, and the cylinder would move/rotate in real time. Of course, I have a completely different video card and system than you do, but I'm just verifying that it's not broken everywhere.
Rendering isn't hugely fast, but that's not unexpected with a larger image.
Maybe being more specific would help. Is your mesh complex?
Is it something you'd be willing to share online or describe how to create? I would be happy to try to match what you're doing more thoroughly to see whether I can reproduce the slowdowns.
Beyond that, I'm not sure what to suggest... You don't have a lot of RAM to be working on 15 megapixel images, but as you say the thing to concentrate on is that you're seeing quite different performance from the Ps CS6 beta version.
-Noel

Equium L20 running extremely slow after formatting

I wonder if anyone could help me,
I have had my Equium just over a year now and last month I believe it got a virus as it started running incredibly slow, not allowing me to open any programs.
So I restarted it but once it had gone off I could not get it to start up again.
It would show the Windows loading screen and then die, and restart again.
I was forced to format the hard drive and after doing this everything seemed to be fine and it was running perfectly.
This lasted for about 2 weeks and now it is back to how it was before, running very slowly taking almost half an hour just to reach the login screen and I am getting errors when it finally logs in says that my applications are failing to load.
The first time I also got a warning that Norton Antivirus had experienced a problem and that I need to re-install that :S
I find it hard to believe that it is another virus this soon after the first one especially because i have never before had any problems with viruses and always run antivirus software.
I would greatly appreciate any help or advice anyone could give me about why this is happening.

The described issue is really strange. Usually with so called factory settings the notebook should run like at first day. I do not believe that immediately after recovering your notebook you have noticed that OS runs extremely slow. Am I right?
Now after two weeks the same again. Nobody of us knows what you have done with your notebook, which software is preinstalled and what are your favorite settings. The fact is that Norton Antivir slows down the running system rapidly. Try please to remove preinstalled Norton and use some other Antivir application.
Equium L30 is definitely not the fastest notebook and I believe many running applications are responsible for slow running OS.

Safari 6 running extremely slow after getting Mountain Lion

So after getting OS X Mountain Lion and Safari 6, my safari has been running extremely slow. I've seen that a lot of people are having trouble with it crashing or stopping which I have not experienced. So far, I've tried: emptying the cache, disabling plug ins, turned off extensions, and reset safari. All of these have helped but it is still running pretty slow.
Does anyone have any other suggestions?

If you have anti virus software installed, disable that then try Safari.
If you don't have a/v software installed, try Safari in another user account. If it's slow there, that's an indication the startup disk may need repairing.
If that is the case, that requires > Mountain Lion Recovery

Photoshop cs5 running EXTREMELY slow in Liquify mode

OMG! My photshop cs5 is running EXTREMELY slow in liquify mode, to the point where I can't even use it. WHAT IS WRONG!?? It has always been very fast but all this week for some reason it will freeze every time I try to use a tool. HELP!!!!!

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/902/cpsid_90227.html

My iMac is running extremely slow after upgrading to mountain lion

Ever since upgrading my OS, my computer is running extremely slow. Any tips to improve performance?

How much RAM is your system running? Do a Disk Repair and see if that resolves any issues.

Brand New Machine and Photoshop CS6 running very slow

I just installed Photoshop CS6 on my new Machine and it is running horrible. Moving around objects, turning effects on/off, zooming, and more all take for ever to render. I can not figure out why. I have updated video card drivers and more. Scratch Disk is set to a second disk and messed with all of the GPU settings. Only photoshop runs bad on this machine. I should not be having issues with the system. Below is the system info from Photoshop. Also this machine is running with two SSD drives which should make PS run even faster.
Adobe Photoshop Version: 13.0.1 (13.0.1 20120808.r.519 2012/08/08:21:00:00) x64
Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit
Version: 6.1 Service Pack 1
System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:13, Stepping:7 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, HyperThreading
Physical processor count: 12
Logical processor count: 24
Processor speed: 2294 MHz
Built-in memory: 16310 MB
Free memory: 11540 MB
Memory available to Photoshop: 14661 MB
Memory used by Photoshop: 70 %
Image tile size: 128K
Image cache levels: 4
OpenGL Drawing: Enabled.
OpenGL Drawing Mode: Advanced
OpenGL Allow Normal Mode: True.
OpenGL Allow Advanced Mode: True.
OpenGL Allow Old GPUs: Not Detected.
Video Card Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
Video Card Renderer: AMD FirePro V5900 (ATI FireGL)
Display: 3
Display Bounds:= top: -80, left: -1024, bottom: 1200, right: 0
Display: 2
Display Bounds:= top: 0, left: 1920, bottom: 1680, right: 2970
Display: 1
Display Bounds:= top: 0, left: 0, bottom: 1200, right: 1920
Video Card Number: 2
Video Card: AMD FirePro V5900 (ATI FireGL)
OpenCL Version:
Driver Version: 8.982.8.3000
Driver Date: 20120930000000.000000-000
Video Card Driver: aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx32,aticfx32,aticfx32,atiumd64.dll,atidxx64.d ll,atidxx64.dll,atiumdag,atidxx32,atidxx32,atiumdva,atiumd6a.cap,atitmm64.dll
Video Mode: 1680 x 1050 x 4294967296 colors
Video Card Caption: AMD FirePro V5900 (ATI FireGL)
Video Card Memory: 2048 MB
Video Rect Texture Size: 16384
Video Card Number: 1
Video Card: AMD FirePro V5900 (ATI FireGL)
OpenCL Version:
Driver Version: 8.982.8.3000
Driver Date: 20120930000000.000000-000
Video Card Driver: aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx32,aticfx32,aticfx32,atiumd64.dll,atidxx64.d ll,atidxx64.dll,atiumdag,atidxx32,atidxx32,atiumdva,atiumd6a.cap,atitmm64.dll
Video Mode: 1920 x 1200 x 4294967296 colors
Video Card Caption: AMD FirePro V5900 (ATI FireGL)
Video Card Memory: 2048 MB
Video Rect Texture Size: 16384
Serial number: 92938707758622115301
Application folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit)\
Temporary file path: C:\Users\JDONAL~1.RWS\AppData\Local\Temp\
Photoshop scratch has async I/O enabled
Scratch volume(s):
D:\, 237.9G, 229.4G free
Required Plug-ins folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit)\Required\
Primary Plug-ins folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit)\Plug-ins\
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   Crop and Straighten Photos 13.0.1 (13.0.1 20120808.r.519 2012/08/08:21:00:00)
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Plug-ins that failed to load: NONE
Flash:
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Installed TWAIN devices: NONE

My Old System was:
Dell T5500
GPU1: ATI FirePro 5700
GPU2: Nvidia Geforce 210
CPU1:Xeon E5520 2.26Ghz
CPU2: Xeon E5520 2.26Ghz
C Drive: 80gb Sata 10K RPM
D Drive/Scratch Disk: 80gb Sata 10K RPM
Photoshop CS6 was set at default performance setting with the exception of the D drive being used for the scratch disk. GPU Processor was checked.
Worked on numerous large files 100 mg plus with little to no issue. Most setup in CMYK, 200 dpi, 8 bit depth.
New Machine:
Dell T5600
Two ATI FirePro V5900
CPU1: Xeon E5-2630
CPU2: Xeon E5-2630
C Drive: 240 gb SSD
D Drive:
My Old System was:
Dell T5500
GPU1: ATI FirePro 5700
GPU2: Nvidia Geforce 210
CPU1:Xeon E5520 2.26Ghz
CPU2: Xeon E5520 2.26Ghz
C Drive: 80gb Sata 10K RPM
D Drive/Scratch Disk: 80gb Sata 10K RPM
Photoshop CS6 was set at default performance setting with the exception of the D drive being used for the scratch disk. GPU Processor was checked.
Worked on numerous large files 100 mg plus with little to no issue. Most setup in CMYK, 200 dpi, 8 bit depth.
New Machine:
Dell T5600
Two ATI FirePro V5900
CPU1: Xeon E5-2630
CPU2: Xeon E5-2630
C Drive: 240 gb SSD
D Drive: 240gb SSD
Tried Photoshop at all sorts of various settings including default. All with the D drive being used for the Scratch disk. Working on the similar size file described above. The file I am working on now is 4000 x 4800 pixels, CMYK, 8 bit depth. Photoshop is slow selecting layers with auto select, very slow when moving layers around the Canvas, and slow rendering the Canvas when zooming in and out. This document also has about 30 layers and is 80mg.
I only use the 64 bit version of Photoshop these days. Also all three monitors are set at 60 Hertz. Photoshop is closed and reopened upon all changes.
I use to be a Photoshop Certified Expert in CS3 so I am extremely familar with the product. I am just stumped.

Mac Photoshop CS6 crash with NVIDIA GTX470 graphics card

Hi there,
I don't know whether this is an Adobe bug or NVIDIA driver problem.
I've recently upgraded my Mac Pro's graphics card from an Asus 256MB 8400GS to a 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470. Everything seems to work fine in CS6 suite apart from a weird anomaly where, dragging the 'Depth of Field' slider on a Photoshop 3D layer, Photoshop crashes. All of the other 3D controls appear to work fine, just the 'Depth of Field' causes the crash.
I've tried disabling 'Open CL' and using the lowest settings, but I still get the crash. When I reinstalled the less powerful Asus card, I didn't get a crash and could use the slider fine. Would this be an NVIDIA driver issue, or Adobe bug with NVIDIA GTX cards?
Thanks in advance :-)

Thanks for both replies. I've sent an email to EVGA (who make the card) and I'll see what they say. Seeing as PS worked with my previous card, I guess you're right about it being a driver issue.

Photoshop CS6 running extremely slowly.

So, I purchased CS6 when it was released and have been dealing with it's ridiculous speed ever since. It's gotten to the point where I can't tolerate it and can get no work done inside of it.
Basically, the main issue is the menu bar. I'll click on File or Image and have to wait at least 5 seconds for the menu to drop down. In the layer pallette I'll go to Alt Drag a layer and it'll freeze for a good 5-10 seconds, then reset and let me drag at will. Until I want to do another layer...then it does it all over again. Brushing occasionally becomes painfully slow and delayed. I used CS4 for years and never had these problems on the same computer. I work with extremely large files and am only having trouble with them after upgrading to CS6.
I'm running on Vista, yes I know. 6GB of Ram, so that should not be the issue. I do plan on purchasing a Mac in the next few months, but really need this problem sorted out Asap. I've googled endlessly and cannot find anything that works. I've changed drawing mode to Basic, disabled OpenGL, seemingly all of the obvious fixes, that haven't worked.
Any help would be awesome. Thanks!

Windows Vista is not officialy supported by CS6.
Sure, it will launch and kind of "run" under Vista, but Adobe does not support it:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1008993

Photoshop CC 2014 extremely slow after fresh intallation on MacBook Pro Late 2011, i7 8 GB RAM, Photoshop CS 5.1 performance OK

Hi there,
I just installed Adobe Photoshop CC 2014 on my MacBook Pro Late 2011 with 8 GB RAM after already having installed CS 5.1 on my MacBook.
So I have both installed at the same time.
But: CS 5.1 is much faster! The first time opening CC 2014 was really shocking, because it was so laggy and still is, and I don't know why this is.
I didn't do any weird performance settings, neither did I change anything else. I open a document in CC 2014 and it takes nearly double the time
compared to opening the same document in CS 5.1.
And with CS 5.1 running the app Memory Clean tells me that i have 1.5 GB of free memory, with CC 2014 running my memory is completely in use.
Are there any tipps/tricks/issues with having both installed at the same time? Am I missing something that is leading to that specific performance
issue?
I would be glad if someone could help me, because otherwise I have to say that upgrading to CC 2014 and buying the CC license for one year
didn't turn out to be a good thing.
Thanks!

Nothing here?
The MacBook now has 16 GB RAM, but not much change. Photoshop CS 5.1 performance is great after splitting the PSD into 3 different ones, Photoshop CC 2014 still much slower.
Does anyone experience the same problems, especially with many groups / layers / smart objects?
And is it possible to get back the money for purchasing the yearly CC license when I'm not satisfied with the product?
Thank you.

New-ish Macbook booting/running extremely slow after 10.6.3?

Hi all,
I bought a refurbished Macbook in March 2010. A few days ago I installed the big updates along with 10.6.3 and everything was fine. I was then trying to play an .avi with VLC media player with some other programs open (Firefox, iTunes I think). VLC started not responding along with the other programs and I got the spinning wheel for a little while. Eventually I forced quit everything and restarted. Upon this restart (and, incidentally, this would have been the first restart after the initial install/restart of the above updates) my Macbook was running really slowly. Extremely long boot up times (like 10-15 minutes), constant spinning wheel in OS X (takes about 1-2 minutes to load the system drop-down menu, longer for apps like disk utility). Everything runs fine, just massive load times and spinning wheels when doing anything.
I hadn't installed any new programs, widgets or any other stuff aside from the update last week.
The laptop's memory usage seems pretty normal (about 1.2/2.0gb free RAM, no page-outs) and nothing seems to be bogging down the CPU. All my processes are Intel. I have about 40gb free on my 120gb hard drive. Checked my Font Book and I have no duplicates.
I tried resetting PRAM (no change) and I verified/repaired the disk with DU (no trouble found).
I ran the Apple Hardware Test and everything came up without problems.
I ran repair permissions from the OS X CD and it repaired a whole bunch of Airport stuff and I got a ton of "Open Error 1" for keyedobjects, etc but the latter is normal?
What should I do next to resolve this? Is it an Airport issue given the repaired permissions? I'm guessing it's likely software/update related, since all my hardware SEEMS fine... Any help would be very much appreciated. Please let me know if you need more info.

Hi again.
So after my above fiasco I decided to completely reformat (zero-out-data) my drive and do a clean install. After doing this, I began reinstalling all my previous software, and everything was back to normal, very fast, smooth, etc.
Today I decided I'd grab all my music and other files over from my PC's external hard drive to put it on my Macbook. I copied all my separate, misc. files like photos and .psd files and text documents first (about 5gb), and then copied my music folder next (70gb or so). After copying exactly 48gb, the computer froze and I got a spinning wheel. I couldn't click the X to stop the transfer and I let it sit for a good 30 minutes spinning away before trying force quit, and Ctrl - Option - Command - Eject to restart. Nothing worked. Eventually I just gave up and held down the power button.
Macbook restarted fine but then trying to resume the transfer of the rest of my music files kept giving me errors. The first time it copied an album or two and then hung up, this time allowing me to hit the X on the transfer. I tried one more time but it hung up after the first file, and more spinning wheel. Again, the computer was completely unresponsive with the spinning wheel, so I was forced to power button.
Now I get a similar experience to the first time (OP comments), but the start up is much faster. Still spinning wheels, but not as frequent. More importantly, I can't move any data currently on my macbook back off of it, using FAT32 USB sticks or anything. I tried once but I got another transfer hang-up so I don't want to try again. I can hear the hard drive "slip" or whatever, when I try, and then it just churns and spins around trying to find itself. I get similar sounds on start up, but eventually it seems to kick in and be fine.
(For the record, I had this same inability to write data from my macbook the first time this happened.)
Is this just because I had to force shut down the computer? Again, the computer was running fine until the freeze-up + force shut down.
Is it possible that the files I'm copying over were the cause? I had copied the same files over from the same NTFS hard drive right when I got the computer back in March, and they were working fine on the Macbook up until the first issues started a few weeks ago.
It seems to me like a hard drive issue, but Repair and Verify still comes up clean.
Thanks in advance!

Running extremely slow after most recent software update. Would love some help troubleshooting and fixing, thank you!

Hi folks. Since my last software update, my computer has slowed to a near halt. Help!
I have a late 2009 MacBook Pro, running OS X 10.8.2. 2.26 Ghz / 8 gb memory.
I went into the Disk Utility and ran "verify disk," and got an "ok." Verified and repaired disk permissions. No idea if they're relevant.
At this moment the activity monitor is showing 3.79 gb of free memory -- 10 minutes ago, when I was doing nothing particularly differently, it showed all 7.99 gb in use (active and inactive -- I have. No idea what this means.)
It's all beach balls around here, all the time. Any ideas?

Your problem is excessive swapping of data between physical memory and virtual memory.
That can happen for two reasons:
You have a long-running process with a memory leak (i.e., a bug), or
You don't have enough memory installed for your usage pattern.
Tracking down a memory leak can be difficult, and it may come down to a process of elimination. In Activity Monitor, select All Processes from the menu in the toolbar, if not already selected. Click the heading of the Real Mem column in the process table twice to sort the table with the highest value at the top. If you don't see that column, select
View ▹ Columns ▹ Real Memory
from the menu bar.
If one process (excluding "kernel_task") is using much more memory than all the others, that could be an indication of a leak. A better indication would be a process that continually grabs more and more memory over time without ever releasing it.
If you don't have an obvious memory leak, your options are to install more memory (if possible) or to run fewer programs simultaneously.
The next suggestion is only for users familiar with the shell. For a more precise, but potentially misleading, test, run the following command:
sudo leaks -nocontext -nostacks process | grep total
where process is the name of a process you suspect of leaking memory. Almost every process will leak some memory; the question is how much, and especially how much the leak increases with time. I can’t be more specific. See the leaks(1) man page and the Apple developer documentation for details:
Memory Usage Performance Guidelines: About the Virtual Memory System

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