Why is my macbook so slow all of the sudden?

It was running fine, then it froze up. since reboot, it takes forever to get program to start, or use anything.

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Why is my Macbook Pro slow all of a sudden?

Question repost as the first question posted, only received one answer that did not assist at all, unfortunately.
I have a 2013 Macbook Pro that i purchased earlier this year. My second. First one had 0 problems, ever. I upgraded from 8 to 16gb of RAM, and it was running just as it should. All of a sudden, and without any warning, it has slowed to a snails pace on just about everything. I get the pinwheel of death constantly, it's taking 20-30 minutes to move 1.77GB of data, which used to take under 1 minute. Programs are slow to open, and the stalling is constant. I've read a few forums, and all signs seem to point to the beginning of a HD failure? Can someone please assist?
Sidenote: i went and checked the disc permissions, which did show many errors, all of which, however, i repaired. It started working again fairly well for a day, and is now back to the same level of slow. What could this be? Please help.

Question repost as the first question posted, only received one answer that did not assist at all, unfortunately.
I have a 2013 Macbook Pro that i purchased earlier this year. My second. First one had 0 problems, ever. I upgraded from 8 to 16gb of RAM, and it was running just as it should. All of a sudden, and without any warning, it has slowed to a snails pace on just about everything. I get the pinwheel of death constantly, it's taking 20-30 minutes to move 1.77GB of data, which used to take under 1 minute. Programs are slow to open, and the stalling is constant. I've read a few forums, and all signs seem to point to the beginning of a HD failure? Can someone please assist?
Sidenote: i went and checked the disc permissions, which did show many errors, all of which, however, i repaired. It started working again fairly well for a day, and is now back to the same level of slow. What could this be? Please help.

My mail is loading very slow all of the sudden,but web pages are instant,any idea why it takes forever to load when i click on any mailbox

my mail is loading very slowly all of the sudden,web pages are instant,takes forever to click on a mailbox and read the mail ,any ideas

Using mail or an other application?
Same problem on different mailbox?
1- try an other mail client
2- try with different mailbox (google, icloud, ...)
This can be a temporary problem from your mailserver ... wait 2 or 3 hours ...

My Macbook is slow all of a sudden?

Hello
i have had my Macbook for 5 years and all of a sudden its started to become slow, that deadly spinning umbrella is haunting me every time i try to use it. the gb left is 102gb it had 160gb at one point im not sure if it needs more gb to run smoother, ive been trying to clean out the memory of old documents. slowly as the umbrella comes back time after time. can anyone help me with some ideas
all the best Sam Arthur

Hi Sam,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities. This article has some things you can try if your MacBook seems to be slow:
OS X Mavericks: If your Mac runs slowly
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH13895
Cheers,
- Ari

Why is my Firefox browser slow all of a sudden?

All of a sudden, my Firefox browser is extremely slow. I did not change anything nor did I download any software.
It takes me some time to go to web pages and such. What can i do?

Start Firefox in <u>[[Safe Mode|Safe Mode]]</u> to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance).
*Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
It is possible that your security software (firewall, anti-virus) blocks or restricts Firefox or the plugin-container process without informing you, possibly after detecting changes (update) to the Firefox program.
Remove all rules for Firefox and the plugin-container from the permissions list in the firewall and let your firewall ask again for permission to get full unrestricted access to internet for Firefox and the plugin-container process and the updater process.
See:
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Server+not+found
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Firewalls
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/fix-problems-connecting-websites-after-updating

Why is my macbook so laggy all of a sudden?

It started close to a week ago. It will work normally for like an hour or so, then it randomly starts lagging. Every time I try to click something, the beach ball of death appears for 30 or so seconds, everything that I have open just STOPS working and stops responding. This will happen for maybe 15-30 minutes, then it will return to normal, then it'll go back to being laggy.
- I haven't used more than 1/4 of the hardrive space, so its not short on space.
- I've used disk utlity, and the SMART status said Verified, so my hardrive seems to be OK.
- I've used repair disk permissions from Disk Utlity, an everything came out fine.
- I've cleaned out all my caches with CCleaner, it took out 9gb of ****. This helped for like 15 minutes, then it went back to being really ******* laggy.
This has been ******* me off to the point in which I don't use my laptop because I can barely do anything for more than 30 minutes without it lagging. .
I/m thinking of just reinstalling Mountain Lion. My qquestion with that is, if I partition my external hardrive between my backup data files and the new OSX, will I lose my files from the other partition when I reinstall mountain lion? Will it wipe the whole external hardrive?
What do you think is wrong with my mac? What other ways could I try and fix the problem?
My macbook is a late 2011 15 inch pro. I bought it in September 2012 at my school, fresh in the box, no reburishing.
I didn't put any programs on in the past week that would have caused this.
Its ******* me off.
**** IT TOOK ME MORE THAN ENOUGH TIME TO TYPE THIS BECAUSE OF THE ******* LAG

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.
Reset the System Management Controller.
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.
Check your keychains in Keychain Access for excessively duplicated items.
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.

Macbook Pro slow all of a sudden

My mid 2012 Macbook Pro has recently and suddenly become cripplingly slow for no obvious reason. I normally have Chrome and firefox open at the same time and they both run simultaneously very smoothly, up until four or five days ago. Now, launching any application is far slower than it used to be and I see the spinning beachball of death far too often and for the tiniest littlest things, like if I right click a link or something the little options bar won't come up until the beachball has stopped.
Watching videos on youtube is almost impossible as the video lags at times for no reason and the sound will keep going but the video will stop and all i'll be able to do is move my mouse. Or sometimes the video just stops all together. This is with a FULL buffer bar! While scrolling down webpages I am also met with lag a lot of the time. It has made my laptop unusable at times. I have tried reseting the SMC and PRAM to no avail. And If I shut my laptop lid and leave it on I come back to the fan running very loudly and the Macbook being very hot even with nothing running. I updated my software about 2 days ago after the slowness started happening and the update took two hours just to install even though it said "15 minutes remaining". Obviously, the update did not work. At the worst of times, clicking on anything results in the beachball. I have restarted my macbook multiple times and sometimes it becomes usable for a while before eventually lagging with literally everything I do.
Please help in any way you can!
Thanks in advance!!

Wow, thanks for replying so soon!
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    MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro9,2
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    4 GB RAM Upgradeable
        BANK 0/DIMM0
            2 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok
        BANK 1/DIMM0
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Macbook running slow all of a sudden!

Hello,
My macbook (late 2011) has started running crazy slow out of nowhere. I'm on 10.7.5 I know it's old but I write music and I cannot update the OS because I'm in the middle of a project. I'm backing up the hard drive right now. Here's what I've done so far any advice would be greatly appreciated:
Repaired Disc permissions.
Deleted Chrome.
Reset the System Management Controller.
I have 100 Gig free on my hard drive.
It's not a ram issue as things have been running great until yesterday with no program changes.
Thanks for your time.

Here's the report. I used Adware Medic to remove "searchme". But it's still in the report even though Adware says it's all clear.
Problem description:
Computer lagging horribly. Please help!
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MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,1
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4 GB RAM
BANK 0/DIMM0
2 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
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2 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
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HL-DT-ST DVDRW GS31N
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Internet very slow all of the sudden

Old problem, back again.
I used to have this problem with older systems but now it is back.
How come?

Don't know. Check the Internet speed with a speed test.

I have a MacBook Pro and all of the sudden I can't open MS Word. I can open all other Office applications. What's up? I have reinstalled, reset PRAM, done a Safe Boot, and Repaired Permissions. Nothing works. Help...

I have ms office 2011 for mac. I cannot open the "word" program. Everything else powerpoint and excel works just fine. The problem is with word only. The icon just bounces until I force quit. I tried to reinstall, repaired permissions, etc. please help.

Try posting on the MS Office for Mac user forums - here's a direct link to the Word forum - http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macword.
It might be that you just need to update. Do you have the Office updater set to check for updates every week or so? Note that the updater actually only works when you restart or cold boot.
Try the forum - they've always been very helpful for me...
Clinton

DSL is incredibly slow all of the sudden (Alexandria VA)

For the last few days my DSL has been at around .4 MB when I should in theory be capable of getting ten times that. In fact I usually get around 2.5 MB but that is at least tolerable. .4 MB is definitely not. I tried tech support by phone and by live chat and ran into clueless people who tell me things like turning my modem off and on. As if. So I figured I would post here as a final measure before chucking it and going to cable.
I am fairly certain this is a Verizon problem and not something in my house since I have not changed anything in my setup that might have brought on the DSL slowdown.

Its been more than 48 hours and this issue still exists in Western Massachusetts. Once the connection is finally established it works well. No changes in my house. It could be the last verizon tech ran the wire right over the eave of my house (against my advice) and maybe the insulation has worn through but thats still a Verizon problem.

Time Machine backup painfully slow all of a sudden

For some reason my time machine backups have become painfully slow for some reason. They were fine earlier today, then IIRC I booted windows, then booted back into OSX to run a backup. Despite there being only 1 or two changes (files added to the system) time machine began "preparing backup" by going through all the files on my HDD! Now, it is backing up, but at the rate of about 5 Kb/s!
Something is wrong. I've tried deleting the progress file in the backup folder and "resetting" TM by deselecting the backup drive and selecting it again. Nothing worked. Why would TM be so slow all of a sudden?
Has anyone any ideas?

iBookguy wrote:
No pre-backup thinning needed: 18.98 GB requested (including padding), 205.25 GB available
Copied 105384 files (7.2 MB) from volume Mac OSX.
That is a bit suspicious, but not necessarily wrong. Something caused it to think about 16 GB had been changed (it adds 20% for the "padding" in the message).
How are you running Windoze? Is it on a separate partition? If you're running it via virtualization software, with the vm file on an OSX disk but excluded from TM, that's a possible explanation.
105384 files in only 7.2mb? I doubt it...something seems fishy
Those counts are nearly always very high, and sometimes crazy high. There's some indication it's counting all the metadata, extended attributes, etc., as separate files.
If in doubt, boot up from your Install disc and do a +*Repair Disk+* on your boot volume. Then reboot normally and run another backup. That should trigger a "deep traversal," where TM will compare everything on your system with it's backups, to be sure it's got everything it should.

Why is my Macbook Pro slow to wake after sleep?

Why is my Macbook Pro slow to wake after sleep?

I am having the same issue. I hook it up to the charger in the evening and close the lid. When I go to use it the next time it takes a good 30 seconds or so to wake up. The screen shows the log in screen but typing doesn't work and the cursor is frozen. Sometimes it will even give the rainbow wheel for the cursor, so it seem like it is processing whatever to get going. I also notice that my battery won't be fully charged at anywhere from 95%-99% after being charged a full evening. What can I do to change whatever is happening because it is pretty crappy to charge it all night expecting to have a full battery for the next use, plus the issue of having to sit there waiting for it to boot every time.

Why is my MacBook Pro slow? Beach ball

Boy, I was looking at a discussion of this from TODAY, about a half hour ago, and now can't find it.
"Why is my MacBook Pro slow?" brings "screen tearing issue" and other things not related to my problem.
I got and ran Easyfind, and got rid of MacKeeper.
What else do I need to do?
I have the beach ball way too often.
I just made an iMovie, but optimizing it for YouTube is impossible. Boxes keep getting grayed out; complete hangup.
Can easyfind help further?
Thank you.

Hi Tomo 2,
Kim Komando said get Sophos, so I did. I see it found something called Bredo-K on Nov. 22.
It's now scanning my OVER 5 MILLION FILES. Seriously, I don't think I need that many.
Right now about 50% of CPU idle,
about 1.03 GB Ram free.
Sophos is using about 90% of whatever.
This scanning could take all weekend. I need to get rid of some stuff. Hard to know what, though.
Thanks for any more ideas.
Jerry

Why is my MacBook really slow since uploading Yosemite

Why is my MacBook really slow since installing Yosemite?

If you have less than 4 GB of memory (not 8 GB) as shown in the About This Mac window, Yosemite won't perform well. Otherwise, see below.
When you see a beachball cursor or the slowness is especially bad, note the exact time: hour, minute, second.
These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the 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 and start typing the name.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
          SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
          View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
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 by pressing 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. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

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