Hi Alex, This may be another one you may not want to invest the time, but here goes. Ifyour Mac was running well using Mountain Lion, is it worth it to roll back to that OS? I have had 2 tech people at my local Apple store stating that they haven't yet upgraded their Macs at home and are still using ML. Just another thought to consider.
Cheers, Eileen Sent from my iPhone On Jan 28, 2014, at 8:31 AM, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote: > My Mac is from August of 2011. I have used it heavily ever since, though > mostly in Windows for the first year. There is a Mac Mini downstairs that is > from 2007, and it is still going strong. In fact, interns of launching apps, > it is faster than my Mavericks machine. This has been going on since I > installed Mavericks, not a day before, and that was back in November. > Hopefully, if my hard drive were going to kick the bucket, it would have done > so by now. > > It's interesting that slow-to-launch apps is a problem on others' systems as > well. Here's hoping that 10.9.2 will fix this problem. > > -- > Have a great day, > Alex > mehg...@gmail.com > > > > On Jan 28, 2014, at 10:58 AM, Teresa Cochran <vegaspipistre...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I hate to be a wet blanket, but this is an honest question. How old is your >> hard drive? My Mac mini became very laggy and choppy for about two weeks >> before the hard drive completely went, and I had to have it replaced. You >> might do a disc check and see if things are going ok with it. If there are >> problems, you might try a disc repair. >> >> as for apps opening slowly, I think this is a bug with Mavericks, but it >> doesn’t happen with all users. I have this issue myself, and so do others >> running various Mac desktops. >> >> HtH, >> Teresa >> >> "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too >> dark to read."--Groucho Marx >> >> On Jan 28, 2014, at 7:43 AM, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> First, some comments on how things have been after my complete re-install >>> Sunday. I waited until now because I was copying data back from Time >>> Machine, letting Box and Dropbox sync their data with my hard drive, >>> setting up my first-ever Windows VM and having that sync with my cloud >>> services, and letting Spotlight index everything. >>> >>> My Mac, I'm very sad to say, feels no faster. Apps still take a while to >>> open, or open immediately but are busy for a while. Mail messages usually >>> open immediately, but some can still take a long time (plaintext ones, so >>> it's not an html rendering thing). VO has hardly bee choppy so far, so >>> that's something, but nothing says that problem can't come back - it was >>> never a constant issue in the first place, so it may well return soon. >>> >>> I am at a loss. I looked at my Activity Monitor, and saw that Mail had >>> written 1.07gb of data, the largest amount written as far as I can tell. >>> That isn't surprising, though, as that was likely when it was pulling all >>> my mail for the first time since the re-install. All other apps seem >>> normal, so there appears to be no excessive data usage. Even before the >>> update, after I dumped Soundflower, nothing was making excessive use of the >>> CPU, so that was not the problem. If anyone has suggestions, I'd love to >>> hear them. Short of a new machine or downgrading to 10.8, I am out of ideas. >>> >>> -- >>> Have a great day, >>> Alex >>> mehg...@gmail.com >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
