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fornogoodreason · 2012-07-08, 20:45:12

help please

only two years old...

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R0B0 · 2012-07-08, 20:56:10

Is it slow in general or when doing specific things? What happens when it crashes?

Also, have you had a Hardware Check done? If you take it to an apple store, they can check to see if any of the Hardware is faulty.

fornogoodreason · 2012-07-08, 20:59:02

when i say crash i mean more freeze to the spinning umbrella of death for a bit

it seems to not like youtube, soundcloud (assumed flash related) especially, and multiple tabs but its a 2.66ghz and 4GB of ram so should be able to handle it really. it feels like it needs a cleanse more than anything...

i doubt its hardware related but I suppose I could do that if you think it would help?

faisal · 2012-07-08, 21:56:25

try CleanMyMac, cleans out all crap left behind by other crap

R0B0 · 2012-07-08, 22:01:46

Yea was gonna mention that ^

Make sure all important things are up to date - i.e. OSX. Try not to download updates for things you won't use.

Also, do you use chrome or safari? Could try re-installing whichever one and see if that helps.

If it starts becoming a really serious issue, it might be best to back everything up, format your hard drive, re-install your OS then copy everything back over.

fornogoodreason · 2012-07-08, 22:03:47

i'll give it a go - assume its free?

browser doesn't make a difference i use safari and chrome for various stuff

should really could with some sort of internal tool tho

Slick · 2012-07-08, 23:27:26

I've read bad things about Clean My Mac, that you shouldn't use it. It might suggest to delete some files that are needed to boot up your Mac. After deleting such files you're not able to use it anymore or it makes things even worse. I'm not saying it always happens, but it sure does.

Is there any program which makes your Mac crash? Any actions you do before it freezes? Cleaning up your files might help and there is also an option in 'Disk Utility' to clean up your hard drive and it really helps.

I'm thinking about removing the SuperDrive and place an SSD there, just to have more space and speed things up a little so i can still use it for a couple more years.

SemiShadowDancer · 2012-07-09, 00:19:09

Have you tired repairing disk permissions in the Disk Utility? This isn't so necessary under Lion but was needed all the time with Snow Leopard.

Also, as the speed of OSX depends on how much free disk space you have, you might need to erase the (possibly) gigabytes of language files you'll never actually need. This is great for that:

http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/

EDIT: hadn't noticed the disk permissions thing had already been mentioned...

Santero · 2012-07-09, 02:55:38

I use Onyx every so often on the recommendation of my brother who is a techy. No idea how it differs from just using Disk Utility.

Illidren · 2012-07-09, 03:13:38

Might seem extremely obvious, but do you turn your mac off often?

murray888 · 2012-07-09, 08:19:19

(2012-07-09 03:13:38)Illidren Wrote: Might seem extremely obvious, but do you turn your mac off often?

I find that normally works for me. I'll leave it on for weeks at a time (just shutting the lid when I'm done) and then realise it's getting pretty sluggish. A quick restart actually works wonders (I'm on a mid-2009 13" MBP).

netfuel · 2012-07-09, 17:08:44

so back everything up to an external. Then upgrade your ram and switch the hard drive out for a solid state. That should run you about $250 usd. It will be like a new machine. You wont have as much space but the speed is ridiculous, your computer never has to be rebooted. No start up time or wake time form sleep mode.

http://www.crucial.com/ has a guide for what drive and ram you will need for your specific model. If you are not a technical person most authorized computer places will put in the hard ware for you for under $100 usd.

lemmy454 · 2012-07-09, 17:37:08

onyx is king

fornogoodreason · 2012-07-09, 21:31:22

yeah i turn my mac on and off fairly regularly and keep everything up to date i'm no pro but i'm not a retard either ;) i'm not really looking to buy any ram or upgrade my HD - all i'm doing is browsing and maybe listening to itunes - i really should have enough to handle that

i freed up a huge amount of space the other day by deleting a load of unfinished tracks and samples so HD space shouldn't be an issue (40gb free) though this did mean killing my dream of making a load of raw techno and becoming a superstardeejay but listening to early hyperdub records on youtube at 6am is more important to me right now

thanks for the help everyone, i guess il try onyx/disk utilities and if that fails take it to the apple store?

i'm on Mac OS X 10.6.8 btw...

luke_h · 2012-07-13, 14:15:43

(2012-07-09 21:31:22)fornogoodreason Wrote: yeah i turn my mac on and off fairly regularly and keep everything up to date i'm no pro but i'm not a retard either ;) i'm not really looking to buy any ram or upgrade my HD - all i'm doing is browsing and maybe listening to itunes - i really should have enough to handle that

i freed up a huge amount of space the other day by deleting a load of unfinished tracks and samples so HD space shouldn't be an issue (40gb free) though this did mean killing my dream of making a load of raw techno and becoming a superstardeejay but listening to early hyperdub records on youtube at 6am is more important to me right now

thanks for the help everyone, i guess il try onyx/disk utilities and if that fails take it to the apple store?

i'm on Mac OS X 10.6.8 btw...

For deep cleans and permissions repaiing try applejack - it slike a DOS utility thing that is like smoothing out stuff. works well - helps a bit.

we use it a lot at work and I use it on both my personal macs.