Sweetbriar boy

Q: OS X El Capitan 10.11.5 - i upgraded and now my entire system is running at snail pace, and I dont seem to be able to open MS Excel and Word.  Is anyone else having similar probs?

Has anyone else noticed system slow down after upgrading to OX X El C 10.11.5?

Posted on May 18, 2016 7:13 AM

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  • by macjack,

    macjack macjack May 18, 2016 7:19 AM in response to Sweetbriar boy
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    May 18, 2016 7:19 AM in response to Sweetbriar boy

    Please download and run EtreCheck, created by one of own helpers here in ASC. It is a diagnostic tool that's very useful to us in finding problems. Also it will give us further specs on your Mac. After it runs post the log file here. It will contain no personal information

  • by pinkstones,

    pinkstones pinkstones May 18, 2016 7:22 AM in response to Sweetbriar boy
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    May 18, 2016 7:22 AM in response to Sweetbriar boy

    Please post the results of your EtreCheck report.  It's a diagnostics tool developed by a trusted and respected contributor here, and it will allow us to see what is installed on your hard drive in the way of applications, drivers, plugins, extensions, etc.  No sensitive information is included in the report, such as names, e-mail addresses, or serial numbers.

     

    Edit: It would appear great minds think alike.

  • by Linc Davis,

    Linc Davis Linc Davis May 18, 2016 9:10 AM in response to Sweetbriar boy
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    May 18, 2016 9:10 AM in response to Sweetbriar boy

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

    These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.

    Launch the Console application in any one of the following ways:

    ☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)

    ☞ In the Finder, select Go Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.

    ☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.

    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.

    Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.

    Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

    When you post the log extract, you might see an error message on the web page: "You have included content in your post that is not permitted," or "The message contains invalid characters." That's a bug in the forum software. Please post the text on Pastebin, then post a link here to the page you created.

    If you have an account on Pastebin, please don't select Private from the Paste Exposure menu on the page, because then no one but you will be able to see it.