Re: Um... OK, why is my mac running so slow all of a sudden?
Sounds like you hit all the usual suspects. I know my MacBook was sluggish for about three days after I upgraded but I didn't disable spotlight. Now it seems to be pretty much back to normal. I also noticed that my next time machine backup was huge. I think it said 180GB so the update apparently touched a lot of files. CB On 4/14/15 1:51 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: I’m not totally sure what to make of this. I upgraded my mid 2010 13 inch white pollycarbon macbook, 2.4GHZ dule intel core, 250GB hard drive, 2GB ram from Yosemite 10.10.2 to 10.10.3. I should add that I didn’t do a clean install since it wasn’t a major upgrade, but only a build update. 99.999% of the time, I’ve never had issues doing so. Now however, I’m finding that my macbook is all of a sudden performing fairly sluggishly. It’s not so much to the point of being unusable by any means, but it’s definitely enough to be down right irritating. I mainly am seeing this in Mail, Safari, and the Finder. I’d say most severely in Mail, however, like I say, it’s really happening just about everywhere. I did disable spotlight indexing on my Macintosh HD. To do this, I went into Terminal and issued: sudo mdutil -a -i off Which seems to have helped a slight bit. Not much though. I personally don’t know why I don’t, but for some unexplainable reason, I really never have cared for Spotlight. I guess mainly that’s because I am extremely familiar with the file structure of my drive, and I pretty much know where all the data is that I need to access. I don’t want to get off topic from my initial post by veering to Spotlight as a sub topic branch, but we’ll just conclude that note by saying I think Spotlight serves its uses, but I don’t really find it useful for me. I know you can do more than searching for files, things like Google searches, but really? why? I can just pop open Safari, and search that way. So I gotta hit one more keystroke. Big freaking deal. Anyway, so yeah, I shut that off, but still, I’m finding after doing the update, things still seem a bit slower. Yeah, I definitely did run a permission repair from within the recovery partition, and I also ran a disk verify and repair. All looks really good as far as that front goes. So alas, I’m a bit bathled as to what on earth could be slowing things down? I totally get that this is an older system, but it’s not that? old. Plus, why would Yosemite work fine with 10.10.2, but only one build later, not do so hot? I could see it, maybe! if we were going to OSX 11.0 hypothetically, (and no, 11.0 isn’t released, so don’t go there,) but definitely not just one build higher within the same major release… or… am I wrong? I’d be very interested in hearing if any of yall have seen a slow decrease even ever so slightly in performance. Again, it’s not much. It’s fairly suttle, but it’s definitely noticeable. Chris. -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- 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/d/optout.
Um... OK, why is my mac running so slow all of a sudden?
I’m not totally sure what to make of this. I upgraded my mid 2010 13 inch white pollycarbon macbook, 2.4GHZ dule intel core, 250GB hard drive, 2GB ram from Yosemite 10.10.2 to 10.10.3. I should add that I didn’t do a clean install since it wasn’t a major upgrade, but only a build update. 99.999% of the time, I’ve never had issues doing so. Now however, I’m finding that my macbook is all of a sudden performing fairly sluggishly. It’s not so much to the point of being unusable by any means, but it’s definitely enough to be down right irritating. I mainly am seeing this in Mail, Safari, and the Finder. I’d say most severely in Mail, however, like I say, it’s really happening just about everywhere. I did disable spotlight indexing on my Macintosh HD. To do this, I went into Terminal and issued: sudo mdutil -a -i off Which seems to have helped a slight bit. Not much though. I personally don’t know why I don’t, but for some unexplainable reason, I really never have cared for Spotlight. I guess mainly that’s because I am extremely familiar with the file structure of my drive, and I pretty much know where all the data is that I need to access. I don’t want to get off topic from my initial post by veering to Spotlight as a sub topic branch, but we’ll just conclude that note by saying I think Spotlight serves its uses, but I don’t really find it useful for me. I know you can do more than searching for files, things like Google searches, but really? why? I can just pop open Safari, and search that way. So I gotta hit one more keystroke. Big freaking deal. Anyway, so yeah, I shut that off, but still, I’m finding after doing the update, things still seem a bit slower. Yeah, I definitely did run a permission repair from within the recovery partition, and I also ran a disk verify and repair. All looks really good as far as that front goes. So alas, I’m a bit bathled as to what on earth could be slowing things down? I totally get that this is an older system, but it’s not that? old. Plus, why would Yosemite work fine with 10.10.2, but only one build later, not do so hot? I could see it, maybe! if we were going to OSX 11.0 hypothetically, (and no, 11.0 isn’t released, so don’t go there,) but definitely not just one build higher within the same major release… or… am I wrong? I’d be very interested in hearing if any of yall have seen a slow decrease even ever so slightly in performance. Again, it’s not much. It’s fairly suttle, but it’s definitely noticeable. Chris. -- 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/d/optout.
so slow
hi why is voiceover so damn slow now when arrowing through mail messages? I may go back to leopard it is so painstakingly clumsy at navigating with the usual arrow keys through characters in a message --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: so slow
I find voiceover to be a tad bit more sluggish when arrowing through when quicknav is on, but maybe that's just cuz my mac only has a gig of ram. I'm not sure why quicknav would make a difference, and really it's only like a milisecond slower, but I notice it. other than that I don't find it slow. On 2009-09-10, at 12:31 PM, william lomas wrote: hi why is voiceover so damn slow now when arrowing through mail messages? I may go back to leopard it is so painstakingly clumsy at navigating with the usual arrow keys through characters in a message --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: so slow
William, what are you talking about voiceOver being so damn slow? I haven't noticed any sluggishness when arrowing up and down through the message list, either with the VO keys or with the standard arrows. On Sep 10, 2009, at 12:31 PM, william lomas wrote: hi why is voiceover so damn slow now when arrowing through mail messages? I may go back to leopard it is so painstakingly clumsy at navigating with the usual arrow keys through characters in a message --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: so slow
Nope its not the ram. My mac has 4 gb of ram and it is still quite slow. it is the quicknav. Turn it off and it works better. Justin On Sep 10, 2009, at 6:42 AM, Jessi and Goldina wrote: I find voiceover to be a tad bit more sluggish when arrowing through when quicknav is on, but maybe that's just cuz my mac only has a gig of ram. I'm not sure why quicknav would make a difference, and really it's only like a milisecond slower, but I notice it. other than that I don't find it slow. On 2009-09-10, at 12:31 PM, william lomas wrote: hi why is voiceover so damn slow now when arrowing through mail messages? I may go back to leopard it is so painstakingly clumsy at navigating with the usual arrow keys through characters in a message --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
