I have noticed that my MAC is really taking a long time to load programs & on-line content. Is there a way to clean up whats on here? I remember with the old PC you could defrag and do a disk clean up? Is there such a thing with my IMAC? It is 4 years old & I am running the latest software versions.
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How can I clean up my Mac? Our desktop is running so slowly! I think it's from all the crap my daughter is downloading...
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iMac
I am an absolute Mac virgin I have never used one before this is my first experience with them. We bought a imac for our daughter purely for the virus free factor and the computer just looked so good the graphics etc.
Anyway we have had the system now for over a year we all love it and have worked out the basics. My problem is that lately it has become very sluggish and jumps out of Safari a lot, Safari closes unexpectantly. It takes ages for even Word or anything to come up. What can I do to clean it up and make it run faster again. What do I go into.... I need the hows, wheres and whats?
I recently had a new hard drive put in my 2007 iMac and have been experiencing some problems. I did a clean install of mavericks, then upgraded to Yosemite and the machine has been very laggy, finder and all programs included. I saw a few posts about FileVault being an issue but I checked and it is turned off.
I should also add that the machine was running fine on Mavericks, slowness only started after the Yosemite upgrade.
Problem description:yosemite running extremely slow EtreCheck version: 2.0.11 (98)Report generated November 30, 2014 at 9:08:54 AM CST Hardware Information: ℹ️ iMac (24-inch Mid 2007) (Verified) iMac - model: iMac7,1 1 2.4
GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2-core 3 GB RAM Upgradeable BANK 0/DIMM0 1 GB DDR2 SDRAM 667 MHz ok BANK 1/DIMM1 2 GB DDR2 SDRAM 667 MHz ok Bluetooth: Old -
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iMac
I first submitted this in another section of the forums thinking it had to do with my external HD, to only find out later it's a problem across my entire iMac, not just the external. It's nearly impossible to transfer files from anything other than my internal HD *to* my internal HD. What I mean is, when I try to move a file from my external HD, a shared computer via ethernet, or a mounted .dmg, it's transferring at something like 1mb per second or less. I got my copy of Leopard (10.5.6) 2 Fridays ago (I know, I'm late), and first did an upgrade. Everything was wonky, so I did an archive & install. Everything was still a little unstable feeling, so I opted for a clean install. I moved all my precious files over to my LaCie FW HD, confirmed them, and started onto the clean install and let that run while I slept. When I woke up, I had a brand new fresh installation of Leopard with the glorious BG, and I couldn't have been happier.
I started to move my files over manually (I wasn't using the migration assistance because I was organizing my files as I went considering time was not an issue), and first on the list was my music. I opened up iTunes, set my prefs, and started to import from my external HD. ..I just assumed it was taking a long time because I had around 7000 files of both music and video. But when I went to work, came home, took a nap, woke up, and it still wasn't done, it made me wonder. I assumed it was Spotlight doing it's thing on top of the iTunes import, and left it alone. But now when I'm trying to move over files only a few mbs, it slows to a halt. I tried to install Adium from a .dmg by first moving it into my Applications folder.. it's something like 50mb and it took about 10m. I had been expecting to drag the icon over and here that "ding" you hear when a file has successfully moved. The funny thing about this is that, when I look at the Activity Monitor, nothing's really doing much of anything. So then why is it taking 5hrs to move over a few gigs? Here's a screen shot:
So I upgraded to Snow Leopard about a week ago, and my Macbook pro seems a little slower and it beachballs now and again. I am wondering if I should do a clean install of Leopard and use that for a while, until SL is updated a few times, or maybe clean install and then put SL onto that. Which do you think is best? My other questions are as follows:
I was doing TimeMachine backups when I was using Leopard, and these have carried on when I was using SL. If I clean install, will I be able to choose just to copy my files over from the TM backup? Is there a way to do a clean install of SL, or do I need to do the Leopard install and then upgrade to SL again.
I run a computer business. My customer gave me a white macbook core duo. I upgraded to 2gigs of memory from 512mb. I then purchased a full copy of snow leapard and did a clean install. I setup garageband for the first time. This is all I want to use the computer for. I don't deal with macs in my business. I only work on windows. So, I thought this computer would be nice just to use to setup a small recording studio. I did everything by the book and now when I record I am getting the disk to slow error 10005. This happened after I recorded about five songs. I checked the we and it seems like this error has been around for years with frustration and no resolution. My question is this. Should I just buy another computer or waste my time trying to fix this error. I don't mean that in a bad way. Since this error has been around for so long, I don't to spend all my time working on the computer when I could be recording. What would you do?
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GarageBand (Mac) '11, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Garageband
recently my Mac is really slow, slow on startup(took around 1-2hours), and slow on task(more than 5 minutes delayed time on every single task), I don't know what happened to it,
My Mac specs:
1.Mid-2010 27 inch iMac,
2.Original 4g Ram upgraded to 12g
3.1TB HD has got more than 400gb free space.
4.i3 processor
5.Using latest Lion(I think it's 10.7.3)
Problems:
1.Startup tooooooooo slow, take more than 1 hour
2.Extreamly slow on tasks. Without any apps opened, every single click, it turned into the 'colorful fan', for instance, open finder, it took more than five mins, and it's not only the finder, it's EVERYTHING!!!!
What I have done so far:
1.I have reduced the login items
2.I have changed the password login to the automatic login
3.I have tried verify disk permission, verify disk, repair disk permission and repair disk
4.Unplug all unnecessary items(monitor, external drive etc.)
5.Run couple of time of 'clean my Mac', get rid of all the trash.
6.Cleaned the cache
Due to the ridiculous, frustrating startup, that's all I could do, however, none of them worked.
Now I am using recovery HD to reinstall Lion from a disc, but I don't know if it'll work or not.
I don't have another Mac, I don't have backups(don't want to lose my data),that's my situation.
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iMac 27'', Mac OS X (10.7), iPhone 3GS,iPad 3G/Wifi 64G, Sony vaio CR
in the direction of info that will tell me how to clean my keyboard.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've let my keyboard keys get grimy. They are disgusting. I don't think it's possible to follow Apple's recommendation (use a lint-free cloth lightly moistened with water) and get them clean.
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How do I clean Imac system? is runing slow....
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.7)
I'm getting a pop up that my startup disk is full. What do i do?
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iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.2)
how do you clean up an imac hard drive
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I have tried several screen cleaners and distilled water but still have streaks on the screen.
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Mac OS X (10.6.2)
How can I safely clean my iMac keyboard? The white keys look disgusting.
View 6 Replies View RelatedIs there an application or utility to 'clean' the drive?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
My Imac runs slows and frequently get the spinning wheel and apps become unresponsive.How can I do a HD check and also de-frag the disk?
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how to clean the keys on an Apple keyboard?
View 2 Replies View RelatedWould like to sell my old iMac, but have yet to figure out how to wipe it clean of my files, etc.. Have old operating system of tiger 10.4.11 IMac is from 2006. Do not have OS X install disc anymore.
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iMac (24-inch), Mac OS X (10.4.11)
My iMac and MacBooks are running slow. How do I clean unnecessary programs and files off the computers?
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I upgraded to Lion after its release and ever since then my wifi has been driving me crazy. The wifi disconnects, and when I click on my network I get the error that the connection timed out. I'm always forced to turn the wifi off and then back on.It happened a ton, and consistently. It's extremely frustrating especially when I'm in the middle of a movie on my Apple TV and my iMac loses its internet and interrupts the show. Sometimes it happens three or more times during one show.So I decided to do a clean install of Lion. I made sure all my important documents were on my Hard Drive and even wrote a list out of every application that I use regularly. Then I completely reformatted my hard drive and did a clean install of Lion.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I inadvertently did something wrong - and now have malware on my machine. How do I get rid of it? And how does one do a clean install of operating systems OSX 10.9?
View 3 Replies View RelatedOne of an ongoing series of issues moving to Lion (whatta workout!). This one involves Mail and iCloud. Porting my MobilMe to iCloud has been problematic - I' ve been asked to do it three or four times, with each time being succesful when viewing through Safari. But now I've realized that the iCloud mail is not being picked up by Mail on my iMac (2009). I go to System Preferences to see if I can do something about it, but iCloud isn't there - just MobileMe.
So I click on MobileMe and (again) it asks me to move everything to iCloud. I do this and some error is generated (can't get it to replicate & don't recall what it was), and I can't sign in - it doesn't recognize my login, although I'm still currently in iCloud via Safari - clear as mud? Yikes. Bottom line: Mail can't get at iCloud mail to download, and sign-in seems broken. In 25 years on a Mac, I've never come across this level of Windows-like challenges.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4), System upgraded from 10.5
I would like to clean install Lion into my Macintosh HD drive and leave the bootcamp drive without getting affected from it...is it possible or do i have to do the install on all the drive?
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iMac, Windows7
my mac's gone very slow?
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My iMac has became very slow.
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Recently I decided to teach myself 3D modeling and I installed the free version of Sketchup * on my new iMac (last summer) running )SX Lion and with 8GB RAM. But I get so annoyed when I try to do something as simple as intersecting faces and then WHAM it's like I hit a wall and the spinning beachball of death appears. Sometimes it only lasts for a few minutes, but other times it can run for half an hour with no progress and I force quit out of frustration and try again.
It did this when I had the original 4GB RAM and upgrading to 8GB hasn't made any noticeable difference. And so I doubt upgrading yet again to 16GB would accomplish anything since it doesn't seem to be a RAM issue.
I understand Windows users don't have this issue or Apple users running Leopard or Snow Leopard. I also understand this is being worked on and not everyone experiences this, but in the interim it's really frustrating. I've made certain I don't have any other programs running or Sketchup panes open and I try to keep things simple by selecting only the caes I'm trying to intersect together, but it's still to no avail.
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Mac OS X (10.6.8)
my desktop mac is suddenly incredibly slow!
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My iMac is all of a suddden very slow and the incoming gmail is no longer working. However my incoming mail works fine on my iPad and other devices? The slowness is on every thing?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Very slow
My iMac runs very very slow always putting up the rainbow wheel every time I click on something. That includes internet and just opening programs.
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