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Mac slowed down

  • 03-11-2008 7:56pm
    #1
    need assistance
    Closed Accounts Posts: 68 ✭✭


    Have a 2.2 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo Mac Book Pro with Leopard Version 10.5.5, initially came with tiger but I updated the OS with leopard.
    I also have a time capsule 500mb with an external 500mb drive attatched via USB.
    In the last two weeks my mac has slown down dramatically, using safari, itunes or other appliances the beach ball is on constantly.
    I tried repairing disk permissions and than downloaded onyX and ran that, no improvement. I thought it might be due to a bottleneck over the wireless network (my itunes is stored on external drive) so I switched off Airport, but even than running safari it was very slow.

    Has anyone any suggestions, should I bite the bullet and reinstall the OS. If I do that will I have to reinstall all my third party programmes etc?


Comments

  • #2
    Diarmuid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,981 ✭✭✭Diarmuid


    It the CPU being eaten by some process? Or does the computer just feel slow?


  • #3
    ZENER
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,163 ✭✭✭ZENER


    A couple of things come to mind here. Backing up via Time Machine over a wireless network can be slow. It might also be trying to backup your external 500GB too. Another possibility is that it is indexing the drives for Spotlight which for that much storage might take a while. Usually though it would settle down after a few days.

    Have a look at <MacHD>Applications>Utilities>Activity Monitor and you should get an idea what's going on with the machine.

    Also have a read of this on the Apple support forums.

    ZEN


  • #4
    need assistance
    Closed Accounts Posts: 68 ✭✭need assistance


    Thanks for that, have been trying for the last few days to run activity monitor, unfortunately anytime that I try it finder freezes.
    Ommited to mention but am having a few incidents of finder freezing and having to forceably restart it and force quit a few different programmes. I thought it could have been related to the last airport update I downloaded but problems persist even with airport switched off.


  • #5
    K.O.Kiki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,823 ✭✭✭✭K.O.Kiki


    Completely weird: anyone find that Calculator takes a crazy amount of time to start up?


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