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Q: Very slow to load after update to 10.10.3. Why?

Yesterday I updated to 10.10.3 and it took my system 10 minutes to load. And now every time I try to do something I get the ole spinning wheel. UghhhhhhScreen Shot.jpg

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3), null

Posted on Apr 26, 2015 6:03 AM

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Q: Very slow to load after update to 10.10.3. Why?

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  • by dominic23,

    dominic23 dominic23 Apr 26, 2015 7:25 AM in response to weugenepitman
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    Apr 26, 2015 7:25 AM in response to weugenepitman

         Select Macintosh HD as the Startup  Disk.

       “Set the default startup disk”       http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1310

     

         Reset PRAM.     http://support.apple.com/kb/PH18761?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

     

     

     

        If this doesn't help, can you take a  screenshot of the message and post it here please?

     

        https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201361

  • by Linc Davis,

    Linc Davis Linc Davis Apr 26, 2015 8:47 AM in response to weugenepitman
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    Apr 26, 2015 8:47 AM in response to weugenepitman

    When you see a beachball cursor or the slowness is especially bad, note the exact time: hour, minute, second.  

    The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select

              SYSTEM LOG QUERIES All Messages

    from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select

              View Show Log List

    from the menu bar at the top of the screen.

    Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Scroll back to the time you noted above.

    Select the messages entered from then until the end of the episode, or until they start to repeat, whichever comes first.

    Copy the messages to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.

    The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of it useless for solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.

    Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.

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