At 4:17 PM -0800 11/25/2013, Clark Martin wrote:
On Nov 25, 2013, at 3:54 PM, N. Shani wrote:
> - What *in particular* is slow? Everything. Trying to launch any
application
is a long wait. Didn't use to be so. Opening another tab in Safari, saving a
document, opening a document, you name it
- What' all is running? Typical applications in use are: Word,
Excel, iTunes, Safari
Is it slow when trying to launch an application with no other apps open?
Yea, what Clark said. He's pretty much covered everything I'd reply with. :)
> - Have you tried clearing your browser and other user caches?
Browser: affirmative. What other caches do you have in mind?
/Library/Caches
~/Library/Caches
There is also one at /System/Library/Caches but I only toss that one
with more extreme problems.
A tool such as AppleJack or OnyX (both free) will take care of
clearing these for you.
> - Have you tried running the three Apple-provided system
maintenance scripts? Please elaborate. I'm going to try AHT soon
(once I locate the 10.6 DVD and have the time to scoot to where said
iMac resides)
In Terminal you type:
sudo periodic daily
sudo periodic weekly
sudo periodic monthly
OnyX is useful here too.
These maintenance scripts are normally run automatically by OS X -
but for it to do so you have to leave your Mac running overnight.
Since they probably haven't been run in a long time, they'll may take
quite a while - so be patient.
> I'll be happy to learn about your thinking
Think horses not zebras. Do the basics first - general maintenance,
cache cleaning, etc. And check your system.log (use Console.app) for
obvious failures, before jumping to things like HD failures.
Valter mentions AppleJack in his reply. Great tool!...
Note that, in general, AppleJack is an emergency tool, a sledgehammer
for when when all else fails and your Mac won't boot or run normally.
It runs in Single-User Mode (cmd-S held down during boot) - an
environment when very little except OS X's Unix core/underbelly is
running. DO NOT use it for general maintenance.
For general *disk* maintenance, run a Verify Disk pass with Disk
Utility once a month. Also a good idea to do this before installing
Apple stuff.
For general *system* maintenance use OnyX, perhaps once a month or
so, at most, to run the three system maintenance scripts (daily,
weekly, monthly). And if your system is running slowly, use it to
clear the kernel, system, and applications caches. OnyX also lets
you enable some nice "hidden" interface stuff.
fwiw,
- Dan.
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