Snow leopard is very slow !

I updated my mac osx and now my laptop is very slow and the fan is often working.
This is really really slow with canon digital photo professional (3.8.2)
Do u have these problems ?
Snow leopard ***** !

Looks like it uses high capacity Compact Flash cards. For that you would need a reader like this:
http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-SDDRX4-CFR-Sandisk-Extreme-FireWire/product-review s/B000I04WWY/ref=dptop_cm_cr_acrtxt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
Which is qualified for your Mac OS X version in terms of compatibility. Check with SanDisk if it will work with that.

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My IMac 2009 with snow Leopard is very slow. What can I do ? I'm french

My IMac 2009 with snow Leopard is very slow. What can I do ? I'm french

Patjan73 wrote:
My IMac 2009 with snow Leopard is very slow. What can I do ? I'm french
The first two things I recommend is boot from your installer dvd or external bootable drive and repair/verify your drives with Disk Utility (not repair permissions) and do a smc and pram reset.
Also make sure you have at least 20GB to 25GB free space on your boot volume for OS operations.

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I am running Snow Leopard and my MacBook is running much slower now then when I first installed Snow Leopard. It was very fast, now very slow. Apps are slow to respond or the don't respond at all. I have repaired permissions which helped very little and only temporary.
I have 4GB DDR2 ram. PDF files are now extremely slow to open in Preview and Safari is very laggy. I am using Firefox now as it runs fast. I tried Adobe Reader but that was just as bad and hogged CPU and memory. I completely uninstalled and removed Adobe from my MacBook.
I know a few others with Mac's with the same problem of a very slow Mac. Some have MacBook Pro's or Imac's 1 friend is using a Mac Pro and has noticed the how slow and laggy Snow Leopard has become.
I have scanned for viruses and found none.

See:
Mac Maintenance Quick Assist,
Mac OS X speed FAQ,
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Essential Mac Maintenance: Rev up your routines,
Maintaining OS X, and
Myths of required versus not required maintenance for Mac OS X.

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I think there's something wrong with my iMac 2.8 Ghz (Model 8,1) related to the security update. This is the first problem I've had with the in months. I had to post this note using a PC.
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After restarting the iMac, everything is running as fast as usual. It must have needed an extra shut down and start up.

HT3964 My MacBook Air running on Snow Leopard gets extremely slow (almost like a hang, except if you wait about half an hr, it actually moves) after login interface. sometimes it never gets past the background. Cannot log back in.

My MacBook Air running on Snow Leopard gets extremely slow (almost like a hang, except if you wait about half an hr, it actually moves) after login interface. Sometimes it never gets past the background of the homepage, desktop doesn't seem to load. After multiple forced shut downs and left to run for hours, sometimes the desktop loads but the dock does not respond when applications are opened. The computer is then unable to shut down normally. Forced shut downs are necessary most times. Time machine backup takes extremely long, and attempts to use the time machine to bring the laptop back to the time befiore the problem arose was met with extremely slow and hung time machine function.
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There isn't much besides a failing hard drive or other hardware fault that can cause those symptoms. Run the Apple Hardware Test, or just take it to an Apple Store for testing.

CS3 on Snow Leopard... slow slow slow

Just recently updated to Snow Leopard (iMac, intel dual, 2G ram), Photoshop is working but very slow... feel like as if it's in 1995. Don't know if this mean anything... showing on Activity Monitor, PS runs 1.9G ram... with a 20mb file open. It took, roughly, 1 min 36 second to open a 23mb file with only Mail and Safari open. Also, I cut and past a jpg image from PPT back to PS, it crashed a few times (crash = hang, I force quite it). Then it worked when reopen sometimes restart the system. It just doesn't feel right to me (I don't have data to support it but I think it was working nicely before Snow Leopard).
I know I am behind... still on CS3... I thought about update to CS4 but a lot of complains I read were mostly from people already have CS4. It made me think that it's not worth it, at least for now.
Get rid of Snow Leopard is the only solution?
Anybody has any suggestions?
Thanks

I posted my issue on Apply's site as well... here is one answer:
CS3 is not completely compatible with Sno. And, Adobe is not supporting CS3 on Sno. Some have more problems with CS3 than other on CS3. Perhaps, you are one of the unlucky ones. You could try some standard fixes for problems (see below), but you may end up needing to get CS4 or go back to Leopard for CS3 happiness.
1. Get OnyX and perform any deferred maintenance you think you may need.
2. Repair permissions and disk, the first from your desktop and the second using your install DVD.
3. Try resetting your PRAM/NVRAM. If everything isn't fixed, then follow the steps here including resetting your SMC if necessary.
4. Use Font Book to eliminate bad and duplicate fonts.
5. Reinstall (or install for the first time) the .6.1 and .6.2 updates by downloading and installing the combo updater.
6. Reinstall 10.6 using you Sno install DVD by installing Sno over Sno using the upgrade method. Test your system after returning to 10.6. If is good there, then you may not want to install the updates, .6.1 and .6.2. But, if you do, then use the combo updater again.
The time to do what this list says may well cover the cost for CS4.
Is CS4 working nicely on Snow Leopard... as well as CS3 on Tiger? I'll pay if that's true... or should I wait for the next update?
Thanks!

Snow Leopard freezing and slow wireless

I installed Snow leopard, installation went fine since then my computer will randomly freeze for increments of 30 seconds up to a few minutes. Happens on iTunes, Quicktime and safari. I also find to have a very slow wireless connection since the installation. Any ideas?

strange, my wifi's as fast as it normally was.
machine is: macbook 13.3" unibody 2ghz, 4gb ram
wiped it clean beforehand, installed SL fresh then restored my work via time-machine on install
Cocktail's a good util to customize your wifi speed, although it won't work on SL
My machine is set to 64bit mode though, however to be honest the 32/64 bit is a mystery at the moment, seems the kernel remains at 32 whereas the rest can happily go to 64bit with 64bit apps running happily against 32bit ones.
May want to time-machine your work, install fresh and restore from time machine. just use a usb-portable or huge memory stick, will only need to do it once.
Michelle's machine has the same problem (core duo macbook white), going to look at that tomorrow, will post if i solve it

Upgraded to snow leopard, now browsing SLOW can I reinstall?

I wasn't having any real problems with Leopard, but when Chrome stopped updating flash for it, I decided what the heck, I'll upgrade (against my better judgement).
So, I ordered my Snow Leopard disk directly from apple. Backed up my Mac with Carbonite. Then installed SL on my Mac. At one point it hung up, but after I eventually decided to shut off the computer and restart it, everything appeared fine. I also ran all the updates so my safari is 5.1.7 and my SL is 10.6.8.
Here is my system info: (I replaced the s/n with the ****)
Model Name:          iMac
Model Identifier:          iMac8,1
Processor Name:          Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed:          2.8 GHz
Number Of Processors:          1
Total Number Of Cores:          2
L2 Cache:          6 MB
Memory:          2 GB
Bus Speed:          1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version:          IM81.00C1.B00
SMC Version (system):          1.30f1
Serial Number (system): ************
Hardware UUID:          *************
Browsing has become horribly slow. I'm always getting the beach ball, and it Chrome and Safari keep becoming nonresponsive. I didn't realize I was supposed to do a REPAIR DISK BEFORE my upgrade. I have run REPAIR DISK several times now. I heard that there were a handful of items that would repeatedly show up as needing to be repaired, even though they are actually ok, BUT I just ran a repair disk AGAIN and there must have been 150 line items to repair. It said it would take 39 minutes. But it actually took about 15.
I realized that "rosetta" was not selected when I installed (but I don't run any windows programs anyway). Also, once when I got hung up in Safari, I was in the Zynga gaming site and multiple windows started showing up telling me to run in 32 bit mode. I tried changing to 32 bit (even though it didn't seem to make sense because I'm not running anything that would require 32 bit) but it made no difference. I've since returned it to 64.
So I'm wondering, Can I REINSTALL Snow Leopard? Since I've done a repair disk again, can I just stick the disk in and try to install like normal? Do I have to back anything off? I've had my Mac for years, but NEVER had any problems with it, and never had to upgrade so this is new to me. (I was used to Microsoft before, that caused me problems CONSTANTLY, especially needing to upgrade constantly.
BTW, I don't have a LOT of different docs stored on my Mac, just a ton of pictures (which was my reason for needing to make sure it was all backed up).
Thanks for any help. I really appreciate it. I would like to be able to browse without having to FORCE QUIT every 10 minutes.

I've done multiple safari resets. I've also repaired permissions multiple times. So here's what I've done. I did another disk permission repair, then put the snow leopard disk back in and ran the install again. It acted a little odd, for example in the middle of the install the computer shut down and started up again on its own. I just left it. Then, it seemed to be stuck on 1 minute left for a solid 20 minutes, but eventually I got messages that it finished. Then, after doing a repair again I noticed safari was reset back to 4.0, so I ran all the other upgrades. Did repairs between each.
I also noticed that Flash player wasn't upgraded to current, so I did that.
So safari wants to take a while to open now when I click it. I usually get a beach ball. Also happening with Chrome.
I play 2 games on Zynga, and have since discovered that I can't play one of them (rubyblast) anymore because it the brower (doesn't matter if its firefox, chrome or safari) lags.
Is there some way for me to see how much memory these games require, and if that could be my problem? I honestly don't know much about Mac memory. I don't have many applications installed except for what came iwth my computer 4 years ago. I do have a HUGE number of pictures on my mac though (and since iphoto duplicates those pictures, I have nearly double).
Am I missing something? I didn't want to upgrade from Leopard because my Mac ran just fine. I only did so because Chrome dropped support for it. I like using chrome occasionally.
If someone can help I'd appreciate it. I have 3 days left on a carbonite trial (which isn't enough time to restore my Mac if I need to) so I'd like to think I'm just missing a common thing.

Macbook on Snow Leopard Sleep freeze, slow boot time, blue screen, ... etc.

The macbook has the following problems:
1. When closing the lid or pressing the power button the computer freezes, the fans start spinning fast it stays like that until it drains the battery. This happens every time.
2. Start-up times are very long, like 3 or 4 minutes. This also happens every time.
3. Now after a fresh snow leopard install it doesn't even start up completely, as it stays with the blue background and I can hear the music of the introductory animation.
The macbook worked ok with the factory installed Tiger. The SL DVD is OK, as its installation has been tested on another Mac. The machine's advanced hardware test passed successfully. Resetting Pram and similar actions were unsuccessful as solving the problem.
I don't know what else to do... please help.

So mine started doing some of the same things. It freezes when it goes into sleep mode. Then it starts to get really really hot and the drive starts spinning fast. It also takes a very long time to boot up. And it's unresponsive sometimes. I've wiped the drive and reinstalled a few times, but it's still like that. I don't know what's wrong.

Snow Leopard Running Extremely Slow

Hello,
Recently installed Snow Leopard and everything has been running slow from web pages loading to editing and rendering in FCP.
I had no speed issues with Tiger.
I have verified disk permissions and repaired, and everything is still running slow.
Plenty of space left on hard drive.
Please help.
-Eric
Apple iMac 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (24-inch)

See:
Mac Maintenance Quick Assist,
Mac OS X speed FAQ,
Speeding up Macs,
Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
Essential Mac Maintenance: Get set up,
Essential Mac Maintenance: Rev up your routines,
Maintaining OS X, and
Myths of required versus not required maintenance for Mac OS X for information.

I've moved to Mail 4.0 in Snow Leopard. Very nice.

After a long stretch with a combination of Thunderbird and Entourage, the exchange server support in Snow Leopard caused me to take a new try at Mail 4.0. I was surprised at how easy it was for Mail 4.0 to get connected to my work's exchange server. I can also now accept or reject calendar invitations from work directly from within Mail 4.0. I've also setup Mail 4.0 to access my gmail via IMAP. I'm surprised at how fast Mail 4.0 is compared against Entourage and Thunderbird. Very nice.

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I searched the forums prior to posting this topic and found some other questions about Mail being slow to send messages with Snow Leopard, but was quick to notice there were NO answers to any of those questions.

Okay. In that case do the following:
Disable automatic mail checking preference in your Mail application. Log into your mail provider's webmail interface. Change your password to something else. Log out. Give it about 15-20 mins then check your mail via mail app. You will get error, so now put in the new password and check the box to remember in keychain. After a while check mail again and see if the problem goes away. If you like, you can then change back to your original password following the same procedure.

Snow Leopard Server's slow connection when connected to AirPort Exteme

Hi,
I've been experiencing slow connections ever since I hooked up my Mac Pro server directly(via ethernet) to my AirPort Extreme. Previously, the Mac Pro is connected to a switch, the AE is connected to this switch as well. Everything's fine until we decided to connect the Mac Pro server to the AE directly. Now we are having slow connection and checking Network Utility, it shows that en0 is receiving errors when previously there is none. I have connected a client computer on the same cable and it receives no errors. It's just the server that's receiving these errors. To clarify thing up my server's network configuration is as follows:
IP address: 10.0.1.201
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
Router: 10.0.1.1
DNS: 10.0.1.201
Search domain: example.net
I have configured my DNS server to use 10.0.1.1(AE's IP) as the Forwarder IP address so that my server and other client computers can still connect to the internet.
Checking the client computers connected on the same network, they are experiencing slow connections to the server as well.
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Thanks and regards,
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Flash in Safari on Snow Leopard is awfully slow

I've seen threads on this before but no one seem to offer neither any solution (I don't find disabling flash to be a solution).
Flash on Leopard was running fine - more than fine, I don't think I ever had any single issue with it. After migrating to SL any flash bigger than a regular sized ad makes it seem that I have intel 286 inside my laptop. FPS rate is definitely low - video on hulu in their pop-up window stretched to half of the screen are all choppy. I think that even first generation MB Air was doing a better job. Even sites like mini.com don't run smooth anymore.
I understand that this has to do with FlashPlayer plugin for Safari (btw, mine is the latest 10.0.32). Why wasn't this happening in 10.5? Is it because Safari is running in 64-bit mode?
I think blaming Adobe in this case like some threads resort to is not really a good answer. The way I see it - it's Apple's responsibility to delivery their customers the best experience with their products and that includes Safari.
I hope Apple can push Adobe to fix the issue or do whatever needs to be done to resolve it. And I hope it does it soon.

HI,
*"I understand that this has to do with FlashPlayer plugin for Safari (btw, mine is the latest 10.0.32). Why wasn't this happening in 10.5? Is it because Safari is running in 64-bit mode? "*
Run Safari in 32-bit mode.
Right or control click the Safari icon in the Applications folder, then click Get Info.
In the Get Info window click the black disclosure triangle where you see: General
Select: Open in 32-bit mode and close the Get Info window and restart your Mac.
Sometimes uninstalling and reinstalling a *fresh copy* of the Flash player plugin helps.
Go here:
How to uninstall the Adobe Flash Player plug-in
When you are finished uninstalling the old Flash plugin, go here and install a fresh copy of Flash Player plugin.
Adobe - Adobe Flash Player  
As with any software installation, repair disk permissions...
Quit any open applications/programs. Launch Disk Utility. (Applications/Utilities) Select MacintoshHD in the panel on the left, select the FirstAid tab. Click: Repair Disk Permissions. When it's finished from the Menu Bar, Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac. If you see a long list of "messages" in the permissions window, it's ok. That can be ignored. As long as you see, "Permissions Repair Complete" when it's finished... you're done. Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac.
Check out "a brody's" post here regarding updates and upgrades 10.6
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10180165#10180165
*"Don't blindly believe that Apple will have tested all the software that can work with the said update"*
Carolyn

Snow Leopard runs super slow on early 2006 (Intel) iMac

Hi. I need some advice please. I have an early 2006 iMac 20" that was running slow and I wanted to upgrade OS and main applications so I bought the SL box set. I backed up my data on a USB HDD and did a clean install, but now the system runs incredibly slowly. Genius at the Apple store ran diagnostics all day and found no problems with the HW and recommended I added another 1GB of RAM to existing 1GB. I did and system is still incredibly slow. I get the beach ball all the time and sometimes the system is completely unresponsive. Anyone else have performance issues with SL on this model iMac?
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See:
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Essential Mac Maintenance: Get set up,
Essential Mac Maintenance: Rev up your routines,
Maintaining OS X, and
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