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Q: Yosemite made my MacBook Pro so slow. Need help.

I Upgraded my MBP (2012), from Mavericks to Yosemite and it slowed my computer down to the point where it became unusable.  I repaired the permissions, and even reinstalled Yosemite but it didn't help.  My MBP is crawling and I'm hoping someone can walk me through a solution.  Need help.

 

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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)

Posted on Oct 19, 2014 12:31 PM

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  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Oct 19, 2014 12:38 PM in response to hunttvillage
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    Oct 19, 2014 12:38 PM in response to hunttvillage

    Have you run any cleaning or optimizing apps either prior or after upgrading to Yosemite? How about anti virus softare, any installed?

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  • by hunttvillage,

    hunttvillage hunttvillage Oct 19, 2014 12:48 PM in response to Old Toad
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    Oct 19, 2014 12:48 PM in response to Old Toad

    The only thing I ran was ACLr8?  Other than that, I haven't loaded Or used anything else.  Here are my stats:

     

    MBP 13" mid 2012

    8G memory

    552G free storage.

     

    what do you think?

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Oct 19, 2014 5:19 PM in response to hunttvillage
    Level 10 (141,664 points)
    Mac OS X
    Oct 19, 2014 5:19 PM in response to hunttvillage

    What did ACLr8 report when you ran it?  Download and run Etrecheck.  Copy and paste the results into your reply. It's a diagnostic tool that was developed by one of the most respected users here in the ASC to help identify the more obvious culprits.

  • by hunttvillage,

    hunttvillage hunttvillage Oct 19, 2014 5:50 PM in response to Old Toad
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    Oct 19, 2014 5:50 PM in response to Old Toad

    Problem description:

    MacBook Pro (mid 2012) is running super slow since I upgraded to Yosemite.  Used CleanMyMac2 and freed up 22G.  Verified and repaired disk permissions.  Re-installed Yosemite and still, it is running dead slow.  Windows take between 45-60 seconds to open, files are slow to appear…generally just slow and unresponsive.

     

    EtreCheck version: 2.0.6 (91)

    Report generated October 19, 2014 at 8:42:19 PM EDT

     

    Hardware Information: ℹ️

      MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) (Verified)

      MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro9,2

      1 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2-core

      8 GB RAM Upgradeable

      BANK 0/DIMM0

      4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

      BANK 1/DIMM0

      4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

      Bluetooth: Good - Handoff/Airdrop2 supported

      Wireless:  en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n

     

    Video Information: ℹ️

      Intel HD Graphics 4000 -

      Color LCD 1280 x 800

     

    System Software: ℹ️

      OS X 10.10 (14A389) - Uptime: 0:55:38

     

    Disk Information: ℹ️

      APPLE HDD TOSHIBA MK7559GSXF disk0 : (750.16 GB)

      S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified

      EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB

      Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>  [Recovery]: 650 MB

      Macintosh HD (disk1) /  [Startup]: 748.93 GB (574.29 GB free)

      Encrypted AES-XTS UnlockedConverting

      Core Storage: disk0s2 749.30 GB Online

     

      MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-8A8 

     

    USB Information: ℹ️

      Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)

      Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver

      Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad

      Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub

      Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

     

    Thunderbolt Information: ℹ️

      Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus

     

    Gatekeeper: ℹ️

      Mac App Store and identified developers

     

    Kernel Extensions: ℹ️

      /System/Library/Extensions

      [not loaded] com.leapfrog.codeless.kext (2) Support

      [not loaded] com.leapfrog.driver.LfConnectDriver (1.9.8 - SDK 10.8) Support

      [not loaded] com.sony.driver.dsccamFirmwareUpdaterType00 (1 - SDK 10.6) Support

     

    Startup Items: ℹ️

      ChmodBPF: Path: /Library/StartupItems/ChmodBPF

      Startup items are obsolete and will not work in future versions of OS X

     

    Problem System Launch Agents: ℹ️

      [invalid?] com.VTech.AgentMonitor.plist Support

     

    Launch Agents: ℹ️

      [loaded] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist Support

      [running] com.sony.SonyAutoLauncher.agent.plist Support

      [invalid?] com.support.com.peruser.Nexusd.plist Support

      [invalid?] com.support.com.peruser.Nexussrvd.plist Support

     

    Launch Daemons: ℹ️

      [loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist Support

      [loaded] com.leapfrog.connect.authdaemon.plist Support

      [loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2.Agent.plist Support

      [loaded] com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist Support

      [loaded] com.oracle.java.JavaUpdateHelper.plist Support

     

    User Launch Agents: ℹ️

      [loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist Support

      [running] com.leapfrog.connect.monitor.plist Support

      [loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2Helper.diskSpaceWatcher.plist Support

      [loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2Helper.scheduledScan.plist Support

      [loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2Helper.trashWatcher.plist Support

      [invalid?] com.support.com.peruser.Nexusd.plist Support

      [invalid?] com.support.com.peruser.Nexussrvd.plist Support

     

    User Login Items: ℹ️

      iTunesHelper Application (/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app)

      Dropbox Application (/Applications/Dropbox.app)

     

    Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️

      SAFARIMontageInfo: Version: (null) - SDK 10.2 Support

      FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 15.0.0.152 - SDK 10.6 Support

      QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3

      Flash Player: Version: 15.0.0.152 - SDK 10.6 Mismatch! Adobe recommends 15.0.0.189

      SAFARIMontageConnectPlugInNS: Version: (null) - SDK 10.2 Support

      Default Browser: Version: 600 - SDK 10.10

      SAFARIMontagePlayer: Version: (null) - SDK 10.8 Support

      Silverlight: Version: 5.1.10411.0 - SDK 10.6 Support

      JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 7 Update 67 Check version

     

    User Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️

      WebEx64: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.6 Support

      Google Earth Web Plug-in: Version: 7.1 Support

     

    Safari Extensions: ℹ️

      AdBlock

      Add To Amazon Wish List

      Open-Dyslexic (Disabled)

      Print Plus

      Evernote Web Clipper

      iShorten

     

    3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️

      AppTrap  Support

      Flash Player  Support

      Java  Support

     

    Time Machine: ℹ️

      Mobile backups: OFF

      Auto backup: NO - Auto backup turned off

      Destinations:

      My Passport for Mac [Local]

      Total size: 0 B

      Total number of backups: 0

      Oldest backup: -

      Last backup: -

      Size of backup disk: Excellent

      Backup size 0 B > (Disk size 0 B X 3)

     

    Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️

          8% QuickLookSatellite

          8% installer

          7% WindowServer

          4% Install Adobe Flash Player

          3% com.hp.devicemonitor

     

    Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️

      155 MB softwareupdated

      146 MB Finder

      94 MB mds_stores

      86 MB Dropbox

      86 MB QuickLookSatellite

     

    Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️

      2.39 GB Free RAM

      4.10 GB Active RAM

      1.14 GB Inactive RAM

      963 MB Wired RAM

      1.91 GB Page-ins

      0 B Page-outs

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Oct 19, 2014 5:55 PM in response to hunttvillage
    Level 10 (141,664 points)
    Mac OS X
    Oct 19, 2014 5:55 PM in response to hunttvillage

    Here's the culprit:

      [

    loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2Helper.diskSpaceWatcher.plist Support

      [loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2Helper.scheduledScan.plist Support

    Uninstall cleanmymac2 according to the developer instructions: How To Uninstall CleanMyMac 2? Complete Removal of ....

     

    Then to confirm that all of the files have been removed download and run Find Any File to search for any files with "the application's' name"  and the "developer's name" in the file name.  For example for CleanMyMac2 you'd do two searches:

     

    1 - Name contains "cleanmymac2"

    2 - Name contains "macpaw"

     

    Any files that are found can be dragged from the search results window to the Desktop for deletion.

     

    FAF can search areas that Spotlight can't like invisible folders, system folders and packages.

  • by hunttvillage,

    hunttvillage hunttvillage Oct 19, 2014 6:51 PM in response to Old Toad
    Level 1 (0 points)
    Oct 19, 2014 6:51 PM in response to Old Toad

    Hi!  OK, I followed all of the instructions and there is still one file I can't get rid of.  It is located in a private/var/run file:  com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2.Agent.socket.

     

    And I'm still running at a snail's pace.

  • by William Lloyd,Solvedanswer

    William Lloyd William Lloyd Oct 19, 2014 6:53 PM in response to hunttvillage
    Level 7 (21,183 points)
    Oct 19, 2014 6:53 PM in response to hunttvillage

    It also looks like perhaps you just enabled FileVault 2, and it's currently encrypting your disk? This will definitely slow things down a LOT on a conventional (i.e. non-SSD hard drive). When that's done, things will speed up.

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Oct 19, 2014 7:00 PM in response to hunttvillage
    Level 10 (141,664 points)
    Mac OS X
    Oct 19, 2014 7:00 PM in response to hunttvillage

    William is right about File Vault. 

     

    For the other file try to drag it directly from the FAF search results window to the Trash bin.  You'll be asked to enter your Admin password.  See if that will work.

  • by hunttvillage,

    hunttvillage hunttvillage Oct 19, 2014 7:05 PM in response to William Lloyd
    Level 1 (0 points)
    Oct 19, 2014 7:05 PM in response to William Lloyd

    This is probably the main issue.  Is there anyway to stop the encryption?  I tried to turn it off, but it said I can't while its encrypting.  The estimating time remaining thing hasn't estimated the time and this issue has been going on for 2 full days. 

  • by William Lloyd,Helpful

    William Lloyd William Lloyd Oct 19, 2014 7:13 PM in response to hunttvillage
    Level 7 (21,183 points)
    Oct 19, 2014 7:13 PM in response to hunttvillage

    No, you can't really stop it, because then it would have to decrypt the entire thing, which may take longer than finishing it off.

  • by hunttvillage,

    hunttvillage hunttvillage Oct 19, 2014 7:15 PM in response to William Lloyd
    Level 1 (0 points)
    Oct 19, 2014 7:15 PM in response to William Lloyd

    Any sense of how long this may take?  I had a sneaking feeling I shouldn't have answered "yes" to that when I upgraded.  Dagnabbit!

  • by William Lloyd,

    William Lloyd William Lloyd Oct 19, 2014 8:06 PM in response to hunttvillage
    Level 7 (21,183 points)
    Oct 19, 2014 8:06 PM in response to hunttvillage

    It's hard to say exactly. It only took me an hour or so to enable FileVault, but I've always used machines with SSDs and I've always done it early when there was like 50 GB or less of data on the drive.

     

    You could open a terminal window and type (or just paste this):

     

    diskutil cs list

     

    And you should get some data on the progress. And maybe the Security system preference pane will tell you how far along things are?

  • by hunttvillage,

    hunttvillage hunttvillage Oct 20, 2014 4:21 AM in response to William Lloyd
    Level 1 (0 points)
    Oct 20, 2014 4:21 AM in response to William Lloyd

    Hi William, I followed your instructions and it says it is only 19% complete?   There has to be something wrong, do you think? 

  • by phil_berlin,Helpful

    phil_berlin phil_berlin Oct 20, 2014 7:31 AM in response to hunttvillage
    Level 1 (5 points)
    Oct 20, 2014 7:31 AM in response to hunttvillage

    Hey guys!
    I am experiencing very similar problems...

    My MacBook Air (mid 2013, 8GB RAM, 500GB SSD,...) has become very slow compared to a few days ago on Mavericks!

     

    Also:
    + The fan is running much more often now

    + MacBook gets very warm

    + Battery drain is extremely high

    + Animations and scrolling inside OS not fluent anymore

     

    What I already tried:

    + new install

    + verify disk permissions

    + SMC-Reset

    + PRAM Reset (Cmd+P+R)

     

    Here comes my report, I really hope anyone can help me with that.

    I am really disappointed of Apple... What a let down!

     

    Problem description:

    yosemite slows down macbook air

     

     

    EtreCheck version: 2.0.6 (91)

    Report generated 20. Oktober 2014 16:22:47 MESZ

     

     

    Hardware Information: ℹ️

      MacBook Air (Verified)

      MacBook Air - model: MacBookAir6,2

      1 1.7 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 2-core

      8 GB RAM Not upgradeable

      BANK 0/DIMM0

      4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

      BANK 1/DIMM0

      4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

      Bluetooth: Good - Handoff/Airdrop2 supported

      Wireless:  en0: 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac

     

     

    Video Information: ℹ️

      Intel HD Graphics 5000 -

      Color LCD 1440 x 900

     

     

    System Software: ℹ️

      OS X 10.10 (14A389) - Uptime: 6:6:5

     

     

    Disk Information: ℹ️

      APPLE SSD SM0512F disk0 : (500,28 GB)

      S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified

      EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB

      Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>  [Recovery]: 650 MB

      Macintosh HD (disk1) /  [Startup]: 499.05 GB (172.22 GB free)

      Core Storage: disk0s2 499.42 GB Online

     

     

    USB Information: ℹ️

      Apple Internal Memory Card Reader

      Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub

      Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

     

     

    Thunderbolt Information: ℹ️

      Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus

     

     

    Configuration files: ℹ️

      /etc/sysctl.conf - Exists

     

     

    Gatekeeper: ℹ️

      Mac App Store and identified developers

     

     

    Kernel Extensions: ℹ️

      /Library/Extensions

      [not loaded] foo.tap (1.0) Support

      [not loaded] foo.tun (1.0) Support

     

     

      /System/Library/Extensions

      [loaded] com.Cycling74.driver.Soundflower (1.6.6 - SDK 10.6) Support

     

     

    Startup Items: ℹ️

      tap: Path: /Library/StartupItems/tap

      tun: Path: /Library/StartupItems/tun

      Startup items are obsolete and will not work in future versions of OS X

     

     

    Launch Agents: ℹ️

      [not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist Support

      [loaded] com.adobe.AdobeCreativeCloud.plist Support

      [loaded] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist Support

     

     

    Launch Daemons: ℹ️

      [loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist Support

      [running] com.edb.launchd.postgresql-8.4.plist Support

      [loaded] com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist Support

      [running] com.oracle.java.JavaUpdateHelper.plist Support

     

     

    User Launch Agents: ℹ️

      [loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist Support

      [loaded] com.redgiantsoftware.updater.plist Support

      [running] com.spotify.webhelper.plist Support

     

     

    User Login Items: ℹ️

      iTunesHelper ApplicationHidden (/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app)

      Dropbox ApplicationHidden (/Applications/Dropbox.app)

      Porthole UNKNOWNHidden (missing value)

     

     

    Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️

      AdobeAAMDetect: Version: AdobeAAMDetect 2.0.0.0 - SDK 10.7 Support

      FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 15.0.0.189 - SDK 10.6 Support

      Default Browser: Version: 600 - SDK 10.10

      AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 11.0.09 - SDK 10.6 Support

      AdobePDFViewer: Version: 11.0.09 - SDK 10.6 Support

      Flash Player: Version: 15.0.0.189 - SDK 10.6 Support

      QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3

      JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 7 Update 71 Check version

     

     

    Safari Extensions: ℹ️

      AdBlock

     

     

    3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️

      Flash Player  Support

      Growl  Support

      Java  Support

      Perian  Support

     

     

    Time Machine: ℹ️

      Time Machine not configured!

     

     

    Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️

         13% Folder Actions Dispatcher

          6% launchd

          5% launchservicesd

          5% coreservicesd

          4% WindowServer

     

     

    Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️

      1.33 GB Folder Actions Dispatcher

      352 MB Safari

      198 MB launchd

      189 MB CalendarAgent

      120 MB com.apple.WebKit.WebContent

     

     

    Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️

      127 MB Free RAM

      3.36 GB Active RAM

      3.19 GB Inactive RAM

      997 MB Wired RAM

      2.81 GB Page-ins

      36 MB Page-outs

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