Slow start up, moving slow etc
I've had my 13" MacBook since 2008. When I got it, I upgraded o 4GB Ram. Over the summer I noticed that its been starting up very slow. I would linge a the apple logo, a blue screen and then Take forever to load the menu bar and the dock. Besides this, web pages and Programmes take a while to launch and have to be "force quit" very often. I also constantly have tUrn off my wireless or restart the comp when the wireless completely switches off on its own.
I know had drive space is not the issue because I have at least 50GB free. Is it just tIme to replace? Does AppleCare cover servicing? My AppleCare expires January 25,2012 :(.
Oh also I just got a new charger in October and it isn't working. When plugged in, the green light just blinks on and off.
Take it to the applestore and get it sorted out before your applecare expires. No point in speculating what might be wrong when it is still under warranty.
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My macbook pro is 18 months old and has started running v slow. When I start it up it takes 5 minutes to load etc? Is there anything I can do to fix it?
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Lag,beach ball, slow start up etc
well i just finished updating my mac 20 minutes ago, from 10.6.4 to 10.6.5 and it is much slower starting up, there was a large beep, and the beach ball spins often. any advice
I'd recommend doing both SMC and PRAM resets, the instructions are:
_SMC RESET_
• Shut down the computer.
• Unplug the computer's power cord and all peripherals.
• Press and hold the power button for 5 seconds.
• Release the power button.
• Attach the computers power cable.
• Press the power button to turn on the computer.
_PRAM RESET_
• Shut down the computer.
• Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
• Turn on the computer.
• Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys. You must press this key combination before the gray screen appears.
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MacBook Pro starting to run slower
Hi there,
I purchased a MacBook Pro beginning of summer last year (2013).
When I first got it I could easily run and bounce between PS, InDesign and Illustrator at the same time. Now it takes 5-10 minutes to just open one of those and trying to run more than one at a time results in huge delays when switching between programs. (which makes doing work horribly frustrating)
What can I do to check to make sure everything is okay? Or help fix this issue?
Thanks
13" MacBook Pro (Mid 2012)
2.5 GHz Intel Core i5
4GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Intel HD Graphics 4000 1024 MB
OSX 10.9.5
500GB HDD (109GB free)OK, first things first: if you come from Windows, you're probably used to leaving a lot of stuff on your Desktop for accessibility's sake, but in OS X, that's a recipe for longer and longer boots.
In OS X, the Desktop is a folder before it's a backdrop with icons on it. Every time you boot or reboot your Mac, this folder has to be indexed by the OS, to make sure everything's there, all folders are accounted for, at the right place, with the right permissions (more on that later), the right content, etc... Since the advent of Spotlight (OS X's indexing tool), indexing is more or less constant on a Mac, as shown in your screenshot by the amount of memory used by the "mds" processes (parent and child).
Bottom line is, the cleaner your Desktop, the better. I were you, I'd move all this stuff to, say, your Documents folder, which is accessible from the Dock anyway. You should notice a real change in boot speed just by doing that.
This said, your RAM usage is really high, and if your Kernel_task process occasionally gets high, on machines as recent as yours, it usually indicates that your CPU is throttling up (to accomodate the need of your running applications in terms of CPU cycles) and down (to prevent overheating).
This constant rise and fall in the CPU activity is also usually linked to bad ventilation inside your Mac; check if your fans are working, and if the air does come out of the vents. If not, try and do some light cleaning, it can't hurt, provided you do it gently...
You can try something that won't exactly make your Mac faster, but will let you see if there isn't something wrong with your virtual memory.
Open Terminal (it's in the Applications / Utilities folder), and copy-paste the following line inside its window:
sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.dynamic_pager.plist
Enter your admin password (it won't show at all, so don't be surprised if the caret doesn't move), press Enter, and reboot your Mac.
After restart, you'll notice that your applications usually start and run faster, which is normal, because you just have told your Mac to just make do with the physical memory available, and not page on your hard drive at all; RAM is faster than a hard drive (even an SSD), so everything seems faster.
The more apps you'll run, though, the slower your Mac will get.
Use your Mac for an hour or two like this, then open Terminal again, and type:
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.dynamic_pager.plist
Enter your admin password again, press Enter, and reboot your Mac.
Tell us how it goes from there.
Now, about permissions: in OS X, every file and folder is attributed permissions, depending on who owns it (root, admin, user). Leaving the system files alone is always best, unless you really know what you're doing. Some files are owned by the administrator (you, I suppose), and can be deleted, moved, edited, etc... by you, but not by another user.
Some files can't be deleted or modified by regular users, simply because they don't own them. By own, we usually mean those files have been created by one user, and they belong to that user until he/it (in the case of the system) allows another user to run/edit/rewrite them.
If permissions on a file or folder have been corrupted for one reason or another, when the system checks that file or folder, it finds a discrepancy between what's inside the index of files and the real characteristics of the file or folder. A bit like opening a cardboard box after moving into a new home, expecting it to contain kitchen utensils, and finding your wife's underwear in it instead. Pardon the metaphor, but you'd be surprised if that happened to you; the OS is surprised too when it discovers that a file that's supposed to be rewritable or movable actually can't be, because of a wrong set of permissions.
One good way to correct those errors is to run Disk Utility (in Applications / Utilities, if it's not already in your Dock), select your MacintoshHD volume, and click on the "Repair permissions" button.
Depending on how many files and folders you have on your hard drive, this can take a while, but it's usually worth it. -
Slow start up / "ghost programs"
I had some trouble with my harddisk when it filled up and became slow, so I made a clean install and copied back my things from Time Machine. But, and this problem happened before that too, my iMac takes forever to startup (about 5 minutes).
And every now and then a program (mostly iTunes) will become non-responsive, but apparently shuts down in a normal fashion when I close it. But the symbol in the dock will say it's still running, and in a mystical way... it is. Because force shut down doesn't work, neither with any program or a restart of the finder, and the only thing working is to do a cold restart of the machine. Interestingly, the activity monitor doesn't find the programs that hangs either, even if they are running.
I don't understand a thing right now...1. Check your Startup Disk. Go to System Preferences/Startup Disk and make sure that your Mac OS X system drive/folder is selected as your startup disk. Otherwise the system could take longer searching for it every time you boot.
CHECK
2. Repair Permissions. Open Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility select your hard drive on the left and under the First Aid tab click Repair Disk Permissions.
CHECK
3. Verify Disk. While you are in Disk Utility after you Repair the Permissions click Verify Disk. This will check the integrity of your volume directory. If there are any errors that need to be addressed you will have to boot up to your install disk in order to run Repair Disk.
CHECK
4. Check your login items list. Go to System Preferences/Accounts/Login items. If there are any Applications there that should not be simply remove it from the list.
CHECK
5. Disconnect any external devices for testing purposes. External hard drives, ipods, scanners, printers, have been known at times to cause startup/shutdown issues.
NOT DONE YET
I've bought a new 1 TB MyBook today so I can remove a Maxtor-disk I have who's been difficult to read from (it doesn't always appear in the Finder), so I'm moving my music and different stuff right now and I'll have to wait some time to do a startup without external disks. In addition I have a 500 GB LaCie with two partions (250 on each, one for Time Machine) who seems to work fine.
It's the actual start up which is the problem, not the login process.
I can live with the slow start up for now, but my main problem is when iTunes and Xtorrent freezes and starts acting like a ghost. Any ideas there? It just happened with Xtorrent again now. It's shut down, but the dock indicates that it's still running... -
Very slow start when initially entering the service ticket in Web UI (2007)
We seem to encounter a very slow start when initially entering the service ticket in Web UI (2007). Once in all seems speedy enough. I don't have my access arrange for the Service marketplace (OSS notes) yet so can't check if there is a known solution, which I suspect there is. Has anyone encountered this problem and possibly resolved it?.
Jason.Previous posts have highlighted the following notes:
1048388 General Performance improvements of BSP transactions
1162605 Network performance for CRM 2007 Webclient
1162685 SAP CRM 2007 Webclient Performance
821045 Poor performance of MIME objects in BSP pages
581316 BSP Delta-Handling for CRM (BASIS 620 SP17)
However, I was wondering whether anyone has come across any other small changes that may have a major effect. A quick-win I guess you call it. From bitter experience I know there are rarely quick wins when it comes to optimisation due to the amount of re-testing etc.
But any further advice would be welcome.
Jas. -
2 days ago my FF3.6.3 started becoming extremely slow/delayed on EVERYTHING/ALL ACTIONS (I have been using 3.6.3 for a few months with NO problems, until 2 days ago). Scrolling going in delayed/slow/jerky 'waves' motion (not smooth & fast), Right-click box very delayed/hangs in coming up, Text typing lagging/intermittent, activity extremely slow/delayed when pointing mouse over anything, changing from tab to tap extremely slow. Bascially EVERYTHING has become sooo slow, delayed, lagging etc. I have tried ALL possible checks (extensions, add-ons, plug-ins, download history, cache, cookies) & viewed nearly ALL the FF help sites. Is this a sudden/recent bug?? It doesnt only happen with Facebook, but EVERY window I open!!
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== approx. 2 days agoI've personally not seen this behaviour since Firefox version 2. It however re-appeared for me in 3.6.6 and 3.6.7 (current) and it's bloody awful. Makes everything I do take 50% longer ..... great for efficiency in the modern world.
This 3.6 branch is so riddle with flaws which seem never to be fixed. Each fix / update brings with it more problems ... worst of all I see version 4 is already in development but they cannot even get 3.6 right ??? WTF ????
Mozilla must stop chasing version numbers as has become the trend in the software world. Fix an existing version to perfection then start working on a new branch of the product. -
B210a is very slow started to print wirelessly
I recently purchased a B210a which I'm using wirelessly from my Apple iPhone, iPad, and a Mac. It takes over a minute to start printing from any of these devices. I've now connected a cable from my iMac and it is still very slow starting. Any suggestions?
Tell me about your network - router brand/model, encryption type (WEP, WPA, etc) and ISP type (DSL, Cable, etc).
Say thanks by clicking "Kudos" "thumbs up" in the post that helped you.
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I am using Mac OS 10.7.5. During the last week, it has started running very slow. Any thoughts?
Things You Can Do To Resolve Slow Downs
If your computer seems to be running slower here are some things you can do:
Start with visits to: OS X Maintenance - MacAttorney;
The X Lab: The X-FAQs;
The Safe Mac » Mac Performance Guide;
The Safe Mac » The myth of the dirty Mac;
Mac maintenance Quick Assist.
Boot into Safe Mode then repair your hard drive and permissions:
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions Pre-Lion
Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. 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 installer.
Repair the Hard Drive - Lion/Mountain Lion/Mavericks
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the Utilites 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 disk icon and click on the arrow button below.
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, then 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.
Restart your computer normally and see if this has helped any. Next do some maintenance:
For situations Disk Utility cannot handle the best third-party utility is Disk Warrior; DW only fixes problems with the disk directory, but most disk problems are caused by directory corruption; Disk Warrior 4.x is now Intel Mac compatible.
Note: Alsoft ships DW on a bootable DVD that will startup Macs running Snow Leopard or earlier. It cannot start Macs that came with Lion or later pre-installed, however, DW will work on those models.
Suggestions for OS X Maintenance
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. Dependence upon third-party utilities to run the periodic maintenance scripts was significantly reduced since Tiger. These utilities have limited or no functionality with Snow Leopard or later and should not be installed.
OS X automatically defragments 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.
Helpful Links Regarding Malware Protection
An excellent link to read is Tom Reed's Mac Malware Guide.
Also, visit The XLab FAQs and read Detecting and avoiding malware and spyware.
See these Apple articles:
Mac OS X Snow Leopard and malware detection
OS X Lion- Protect your Mac from malware
OS X Mountain Lion- Protect your Mac from malware
About file quarantine in OS X
If you require anti-virus protection I recommend using VirusBarrier Express 1.1.6 or Dr.Web Light both from the App Store. They're both free, and since they're from the App Store, they won't destabilize the system. (Thank you to Thomas Reed for these recommendations.)
Troubleshooting Applications
I recommend downloading a utility such as TinkerTool System, OnyX, Mavericks Cache Cleaner, or Cocktail that you can use for removing old log files and archives, clearing caches, etc. Corrupted cache, log, or temporary files can cause application or OS X crashes as well as kernel panics.
If you have Snow Leopard or Leopard, then for similar 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 command line. Note that AppleJack 1.5 is required for Leopard. AppleJack 1.6 is compatible with Snow Leopard. Applejack does not work with Lion and later.
Basic Backup
For some people Time Machine will be more than adequate. Time Machine is part of OS X. There are two components:
1. A Time Machine preferences panel as part of System Preferences;
2. A Time Machine application located in the Applications folder. It is
used to manage backups and to restore backups. Time Machine
requires a backup drive that is at least twice the capacity of the
drive being backed up.
Alternatively, get an external 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. Carbon Copy Cloner
2. Get Backup
3. Deja Vu
4. SuperDuper!
5. Synk Pro
6. Tri-Backup
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on backup and restore. Also read How to Back Up and Restore Your Files. For help with using Time Machine visit Pondini's Time Machine FAQ for help with all things Time Machine.
Referenced software can be found at MacUpdate.
Additional Hints
Be sure you have an adequate amount of RAM installed for the number of applications you run concurrently. Be sure you leave a minimum of 10% of the hard drive's capacity as free space.
Add more RAM. If your computer has less than 2 GBs of RAM and you are using OS X Leopard or later, then you can do with more RAM. Snow Leopard and Lion work much better with 4 GBs of RAM than their system minimums. The more concurrent applications you tend to use the more RAM you should have.
Always maintain at least 15 GBs or 10% of your hard drive's capacity as free space, whichever is greater. OS X is frequently accessing your hard drive, so providing adequate free space will keep things from slowing down.
Check for applications that may be hogging the CPU:
Pre-Mavericks
Open Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder. Select All Processes from the Processes dropdown menu. Click twice on the CPU% column header to display in descending order. If you find a process using a large amount of CPU time (>=70,) then select the process and click on the Quit icon in the toolbar. Click on the Force Quit button to kill the process. See if that helps. Be sure to note the name of the runaway process so you can track down the cause of the problem.
Mavericks and later
Open Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder. Select All Processes from the View menu. Click on the CPU tab in the toolbar. Click twice on the CPU% column header to display in descending order. If you find a process using a large amount of CPU time (>=70,) then select the process and click on the Quit icon in the toolbar. Click on the Force Quit button to kill the process. See if that helps. Be sure to note the name of the runaway process so you can track down the cause of the problem.
Often this problem occurs because of a corrupted cache or preferences file or an attempt to write to a corrupted log file. -
How to manage slow and fast moving goods in Demand Planning
Hi All,
Kindly let me know how to manage slow and fast moving goods in Demand Planning.
1. First how to detect slow and fast moving goods
2. which DP model to use
3. Any Best practice while dealing with slow and fast moving goods
Thanks
ArunArun,
There are two main concerns with forecasting slow moving goods. For fast moving, yes, trend, level and seasonality combined with a decent demand level gets you through.
So, either you don't have demand in the market for that product; if the product is not critical (like go/no go spare parts) I recommend just averaging out the demand over a period and going with that. Any errors incurred there won't have a significant business impact. On the other hand if it is critical, safety stock and/or contractual obligations come to play.
OR, if there is market demand but your market share is too low for whatever reason, then it gets tricky because you need a predictor variable(s) for which you have good knowledge off (such as CPI index, demand for related products, etc). The forecast is then done on the predictor variable(s) and the low market share applied to 'translate' the expected demand to the product in question. Unfortunately, the case of low demand/low market share I have no idea of how to implement it on SAP. Since forecasting is just the tip of the iceberg, it may pay to do it outside of SAP (say in Excel) and manually input it (unless the products are many and varied).
Hope this helps. Please let me know if this makes sense and/or applies to your question.
Rodrigo -
Leopard slow starting up after latest update
My MAC Pro is very slow starting up after latest update. Before it took 15 seconds and now takes approximately 8 or 9 minutes. There is a blank blue screen for the entire time, i have repaired disk permissions but this has not helped either. Can any one suggest anything else.
Download an appropiate utility such as Onyx, etc., and purge all caches, user and system. Also do an [SMC reset|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1411] and a [NVRAM reset|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379]. When you repaired permissions, you also repared the disk itself, right?
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IBook G4 starting up really slow
Hello,
I'm having some trouble with my iBook G4. It's starting up really slow. Even if it's only sleeping. I ran a hard drive test, no problems there, it said. The computer starts up and then works normally, but it's a really long wait.
Any ideas what could be the problem? It shows the apple logo and the "moving circle" for a long time. I'd appreciate help!annasip,
They checked it and found out nothing, and my iBook started up normally there
Doesn't that always happen.
When the computer is having problems starting up, it makes this noise, like the same sound over and over again, sounds a bit like something is stuck. (pretty hard to describe when not speaking my mother tongue)
Uhhh your English is pretty d.. good. As good as most of us around here. Better than my Finnish...suomi something tu...
Anyway that sounds like hard drive problems.
(I just bought an external hard drive so space shoudn't be the problem)
FireWire I hope so get that puppy started up again and Carbon Copy Clone your entire hard drive to your external Firewire:
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
It's shareware so I have paid them something after using it like 50 times.
Once that's done you should be able to bootg up from your external drive. If that's slow you could try repairing disk permissions from Disk Utility (Did we talk about doing that on the internal drive also?)
If you continue to have problems you might have to repair or reinstall the OS on that external. Don't mess with the internal since it seems to be dying and we want to keep that alive as long as possible.
Richard -
Macbook Pro just started running insanely slow
Hello there,
From my research I can't figure out why my mac all of a sudden started running so slow. I've looked at the CPU, memory, startup and a lot of other suggestions I read here and am at a lost.
I bought a external back up drive and it was going very slow too, I forgot to keep my machine plugged in overnight and it turned off so the backup didn't complete.
Do I just restart the external backup turning the Time Machine on?
I did a test on EtreCheck and I only saw one thing that I think could be a problem but I really have no clue here.
That was this:
User Launch Agents:
[failed] com.apple.CSConfigDotMacCert-[...]@me.com-SharedServices.Agent.plist
Below is the entire test and Thanks so much!
EtreCheck version: 1.9.12 (48)
Report generated July 5, 2014 at 12:29:20 PM PDT
Hardware Information:
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) (Verified)
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro9,2
1 2.9 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 2 cores
8 GB RAM
Video Information:
Intel HD Graphics 4000 - VRAM: (null)
Color LCD 1280 x 800
System Software:
OS X 10.9.4 (13E28) - Uptime: 0 days 2:48:20
Disk Information:
TOSHIBA MK7559GSXF disk0 : (750.16 GB)
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 749.3 GB (624.35 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
HL-DT-ST DVDRW GS31N
USB Information:
Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
Thunderbolt Information:
Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Gatekeeper:
Mac App Store and identified developers
Launch Daemons:
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist Support
[loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist Support
[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist Support
[running] com.prosoftnet.idrivedaemon.plist Support
[running] com.prosoftnet.idsyncdaemon.plist Support
[running] com.prosoftnet.idwebdaemon.plist Support
Launch Agents:
[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist Support
User Launch Agents:
[failed] com.apple.CSConfigDotMacCert-[...]@me.com-SharedServices.Agent.plist
[loaded] com.citrixonline.GoToMeeting.G2MUpdate.plist Support
User Login Items:
iTunesHelper
Dropbox
TextExpander
IDriveMonitor
RoboFormIcon
Internet Plug-ins:
Flip4Mac WMV Plugin: Version: 3.2.0.16 - SDK 10.8 Support
FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 14.0.0.125 - SDK 10.6 Support
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
Flash Player: Version: 14.0.0.125 - SDK 10.6 Support
Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
o1dbrowserplugin: Version: 5.4.2.18903 Support
SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.3.8 - SDK 10.6 Support
googletalkbrowserplugin: Version: 5.4.2.18903 Support
Silverlight: Version: 5.1.20513.0 - SDK 10.6 Support
Safari Extensions:
RoboForm: Version: 1.8.4
Audio Plug-ins:
BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9
AirPlay: Version: 2.0 - SDK 10.9
AppleAVBAudio: Version: 203.2 - SDK 10.9
iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9
iTunes Plug-ins:
Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.4 - SDK 10.9
User Internet Plug-ins:
CitrixOnlineWebDeploymentPlugin: Version: 1.0.105 Support
Picasa: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.4 Support
3rd Party Preference Panes:
Flash Player Support
Flip4Mac WMV Support
Time Machine:
Mobile backups: OFF
Auto backup: NO - Auto backup turned off
Volumes being backed up:
Macintosh HD: Disk size: 697.84 GB Disk used: 116.37 GB
Destinations:
Seagate Backup Plus Drive [Local] (Last used)
Total size: 2
Total number of backups: (null)
Size of backup disk: Adequate
Backup size 2 > (Disk used 116.37 GB X 3)
Time Machine details may not be accurate.
All volumes being backed up may not be listed.
Top Processes by CPU:
3% WindowServer
0% Folder Actions Dispatcher
0% IDriveDaemon
0% aosnotifyd
Top Processes by Memory:
336 MB firefox
172 MB Finder
131 MB softwareupdated
115 MB mds_stores
98 MB com.apple.WebKit.WebContent
Virtual Memory Information:
4.79 GB Free RAM
1.88 GB Active RAM
463 MB Inactive RAM
897 MB Wired RAM
366 MB Page-ins
0 B Page-outsThings You Can Do To Resolve Slow Downs
If your computer seems to be running slower here are some things you can do:
Start with visits to: OS X Maintenance - MacAttorney;
The X Lab: The X-FAQs;
The Safe Mac » Mac Performance Guide;
The Safe Mac » The myth of the dirty Mac;
Mac maintenance Quick Assist.
Boot into Safe Mode then repair your hard drive and permissions:
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions Pre-Lion
Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. 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 installer.
Repair the Hard Drive - Lion/Mountain Lion/Mavericks
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the Utilites 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 disk icon and click on the arrow button below.
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, then 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.
Restart your computer normally and see if this has helped any. Next do some maintenance:
For situations Disk Utility cannot handle the best third-party utility is Disk Warrior; DW only fixes problems with the disk directory, but most disk problems are caused by directory corruption; Disk Warrior 4.x is now Intel Mac compatible.
Note: Alsoft ships DW on a bootable DVD that will startup Macs running Snow Leopard or earlier. It cannot start Macs that came with Lion or later pre-installed, however, DW will work on those models.
Suggestions for OS X Maintenance
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. Dependence upon third-party utilities to run the periodic maintenance scripts was significantly reduced since Tiger. These utilities have limited or no functionality with Snow Leopard or later and should not be installed.
OS X automatically defragments 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.
Helpful Links Regarding Malware Protection
An excellent link to read is Tom Reed's Mac Malware Guide.
Also, visit The XLab FAQs and read Detecting and avoiding malware and spyware.
See these Apple articles:
Mac OS X Snow Leopard and malware detection
OS X Lion- Protect your Mac from malware
OS X Mountain Lion- Protect your Mac from malware
About file quarantine in OS X
If you require anti-virus protection I recommend using VirusBarrier Express 1.1.6 or Dr.Web Light both from the App Store. They're both free, and since they're from the App Store, they won't destabilize the system. (Thank you to Thomas Reed for these recommendations.)
Troubleshooting Applications
I recommend downloading a utility such as TinkerTool System, OnyX, Mavericks Cache Cleaner, or Cocktail that you can use for removing old log files and archives, clearing caches, etc. Corrupted cache, log, or temporary files can cause application or OS X crashes as well as kernel panics.
If you have Snow Leopard or Leopard, then for similar 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 command line. Note that AppleJack 1.5 is required for Leopard. AppleJack 1.6 is compatible with Snow Leopard. Applejack does not work with Lion and later.
Basic Backup
For some people Time Machine will be more than adequate. Time Machine is part of OS X. There are two components:
1. A Time Machine preferences panel as part of System Preferences;
2. A Time Machine application located in the Applications folder. It is
used to manage backups and to restore backups. Time Machine
requires a backup drive that is at least twice the capacity of the
drive being backed up.
Alternatively, get an external 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. Carbon Copy Cloner
2. Get Backup
3. Deja Vu
4. SuperDuper!
5. Synk Pro
6. Tri-Backup
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on backup and restore. Also read How to Back Up and Restore Your Files. For help with using Time Machine visit Pondini's Time Machine FAQ for help with all things Time Machine.
Referenced software can be found at MacUpdate.
Additional Hints
Be sure you have an adequate amount of RAM installed for the number of applications you run concurrently. Be sure you leave a minimum of 10% of the hard drive's capacity as free space.
Add more RAM. If your computer has less than 2 GBs of RAM and you are using OS X Leopard or later, then you can do with more RAM. Snow Leopard and Lion work much better with 4 GBs of RAM than their system minimums. The more concurrent applications you tend to use the more RAM you should have.
Always maintain at least 15 GBs or 10% of your hard drive's capacity as free space, whichever is greater. OS X is frequently accessing your hard drive, so providing adequate free space will keep things from slowing down.
Check for applications that may be hogging the CPU:
Pre-Mavericks
Open Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder. Select All Processes from the Processes dropdown menu. Click twice on the CPU% column header to display in descending order. If you find a process using a large amount of CPU time (>=70,) then select the process and click on the Quit icon in the toolbar. Click on the Force Quit button to kill the process. See if that helps. Be sure to note the name of the runaway process so you can track down the cause of the problem.
Mavericks and later
Open Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder. Select All Processes from the View menu. Click on the CPU tab in the toolbar. Click twice on the CPU% column header to display in descending order. If you find a process using a large amount of CPU time (>=70,) then select the process and click on the Quit icon in the toolbar. Click on the Force Quit button to kill the process. See if that helps. Be sure to note the name of the runaway process so you can track down the cause of the problem.
Often this problem occurs because of a corrupted cache or preferences file or an attempt to write to a corrupted log file. -
Anyone else experiencing slow starts, slow app loads, stuck app on different monitors?
I waited 4 months to upgrade my iMac 3.4 GHz i7 (late 2012) 32 GB DDR3 (so, no this isn't a memory issue) hoping the bugs would be worked out on the Mavericks OS, but no such luck.
Although there are a handful of enjoyable changes, the most noticable change is a step backwards in speed at start-up. Coupled with very slow app launches (despite recommended upgrades to those as well), the new system seems plagued with minor glitches:
1. Very slow start up and shut down.
2. Slow app launch - sometime the app is "open" but with windows are not responsive.
3. Random email account drops. One minute there's a warning, the next it's fine. But only one of mulitiple email accounts from the same third party.
4. The removal of iChat theater from iMessages.
5. Etc...
Anyone else having similar issues? Any idea of settings that may be adding to #1 and #2 (the priority issues)?
Apple?
30 years a loyalists and I'm saddened by the recent slew of issues accross all things Apple: iMac, OS, iPhone 5...When you next have the problem, note the exact time: hour, minute, second.
If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
Launch the Console 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 Console in the icon grid.
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.
Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Scroll back to the time you noted above. Select the messages entered from then until the end of the episode, or until they start to repeat, whichever comes first. Copy the messages to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of it useless for solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough. It is never necessary or helpful to post more than about 100 lines. "The more, the better" is not the rule here.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting. -
Does anyone know why once in a while - say once a week - the early 2008s (Xeon, 8-Core, 2.8 GHz) running 10.5.2 take a lot longer (almost 5 minutes) to boot than usual?
I'm ashamed to say that I interrupted and restarted the first couple of times (I've had mine for about a month) and long for a Disk Warrior with which to repair any potential damage that may have caused; though everything is otherwise functioning well.
No haxies or 3rd party 'fixes' etc. In fact a very clean macine (perms. repaired daily etc); lots of RAM (4 GB) and masses of HD space.
But every so often it is slow on the grey screen, seems to stop on the first blue and only after quite a while makes it through the brighter blue screen to the Finder.
Presumably it's carrying out checks and I should... just let it?
TIA!Jason,
I'm sorry to read of the trouble(s) you're having: much worse than anything I'm experiencing
I have the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT; my hardware tests all OK. No other errors. Startup 19 times out of 20 very fast... < 10 secs from Power-on/Restart to DeskTop. Then once in a while 10 minutes. Yes I do have internal (Seagate, Maxtor, WD) drives. But they - like my LaCie d2 Quadra with Time Machine are the same for each boot. The console log for one slow start yesterday (so, 20 minutes) is:
3/22/08 9:16:32 AM com.apple.launchctl.System[2] launchctl: Please convert the following to launchd: /etc/mach_init.d/dashboardadvisoryd.plist
3/22/08 9:16:32 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.cups.cupsd) Unknown key: SHAuthorizationRight
3/22/08 9:16:32 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.ntp.ntpd) Unknown key: SHAuthorizationRight
3/22/08 9:16:52 AM org.ntp.ntpd[14] Error : nodename nor servname provided, or not known
3/22/08 9:21:46 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.UserEventAgent-LoginWindow[100]) Exited: Terminated
3/22/08 9:22:00 AM ChronoSyncBackgrounder[144] ChronoSync Backgrounder v3.3.6 is running.
3/22/08 9:26:38 AM com.apple.SystemStarter[17] net.inet.ip.fw.verbose: 0 -> 1
3/22/08 9:26:38 AM com.apple.SystemStarter[17] net.inet.ip.fw.enable: 1 -> 1
3/22/08 9:26:38 AM com.apple.SystemStarter[17] net.inet.ip.fw.verbose_limit: 0 -> 0
3/22/08 9:36:37 AM ChronoSyncBackgrounder[144] ChronoSync Backgrounder v3.3.6 has terminated.
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