The best thing about Mac is its flexibility and interactive interface. I love it until my Mac started slowing down. My Mac had OS X 10.6, the default OS which I upgraded to OS X Lion. But, it started slowing down my applications and booting too.
The latest fix for slow Mac I found is to use a Mac cleaner to delete useless stuff from hard drive. Although I haven' tried any but want to know if there is any other way too.
specs?
also use [url]http://www.piriform.com/mac/ccleaner[/url]
Can you not run Mountain Lion or does your computer not support it? I've heard of performance boosts there.
[editline]16th July 2013[/editline]
Another thing to make sure is you have all the system updates installed.
Although I can't run CCleaner to see whether it does what I'm mentioning here (currently running the Mavericks Beta which isn't supported by CCleaner), I'd suggest at the very least doing the following via Terminal (which can be found in Spotlight):
[code]sudo rm -R ~/Library/Caches/*
sudo rm -R /Library/Caches/*
sudo rm -R /var/log/*[/code]
Explanation of different things:
- The sudo command will request your computer password, type that in.
- The ~ in the first line is to point Terminal to clear the Caches folder in your current users library folder
- Caches are something that are automatically generated when an application is first run, so you'll probably notice that after doing this, applications will bounce on the dock for a while before opening. After this, they will close down and open faster. Clearing this is helpful when you have [i]a lot[/i] of cached stuff
- /var/log becomes very full after a year or so and can, in some occasions, reclaim a lot of hard drive space. (Lack of HD space can affect performance on your computer if it's <5gb)
I'd recommend grabbing a copy of [url=http://macpaw.com/cleanmymac]Clean My Mac[/url] as it automates this and so much more performance enhancing bits and pieces. It's paid, but I use it on both the MacBooks in my household.
If possible, I'd recommend the update to Mountain Lion (Or if you can hold off, Mavericks). The [url=http://workstuff.tumblr.com/post/20464780085/something-is-deeply-broken-in-os-x-memory-management]memory management in Lion is really fucked[/url] up compared to Snow Leopard and tends to perform poorly over time with portable machines with 4GB of RAM or less due to thrashing of the dynamic swap pager (your HD)
dumb question but is finder indexing files?
click the magnifying glass and see if it says "indexing..."
Go mountain lion if you can, it cleans up the code and it less bloated. (by os x standards)
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