SPOD all the time...
I have a 17 inch 2Ghz white iMac with Mac OS 10.5.6. It had been working fine till I had to reinstall Leopard because it had responding all of a sudden à la Windows.
Since then, it has become so slow. I have to face the cursed SPOD all the time.
A simple task like opening an app,like Disk Utility, took me around 10-15 minutes because SPOD was appearing every time I clicked,scrolled, opened folders etc
I cant even use big apps like iPhoto or Garageband. Opening them takes hours and SPOD appears even if I hover over a photo. iTunes is soo irritating. It takes me around 20 seconds to even change a playing song.
I checked out Console to see the problem and I saw spindump was creating many log entries whenever the SPOD occurred. So i disabled it and it worked fine..... for about 5 minutes or so. Even after disabling spindump, I still get SPOD and it is downright annoying. I used to use my iMac for pretty much everything. Now I just use for transferring songs to my iPod.
Copying files even as large as 20 gb took me around 30 min- 1 hr. Now copying a 25 mb file takes around 6 min, a 2gb file around 6-9 hrs and 20gb... 40 hours.
Oh and may I add that there are twenty-something vertical lines on the screen , obscuring it?
WTH is this, Apple? My Windows 98 laptop can work faster than my iMac.
I'm open to any suggestions which will make my Mac work faster.
Since then, it has become so slow. I have to face the cursed SPOD all the time.
A simple task like opening an app,like Disk Utility, took me around 10-15 minutes because SPOD was appearing every time I clicked,scrolled, opened folders etc
I cant even use big apps like iPhoto or Garageband. Opening them takes hours and SPOD appears even if I hover over a photo. iTunes is soo irritating. It takes me around 20 seconds to even change a playing song.
I checked out Console to see the problem and I saw spindump was creating many log entries whenever the SPOD occurred. So i disabled it and it worked fine..... for about 5 minutes or so. Even after disabling spindump, I still get SPOD and it is downright annoying. I used to use my iMac for pretty much everything. Now I just use for transferring songs to my iPod.
Copying files even as large as 20 gb took me around 30 min- 1 hr. Now copying a 25 mb file takes around 6 min, a 2gb file around 6-9 hrs and 20gb... 40 hours.
Oh and may I add that there are twenty-something vertical lines on the screen , obscuring it?
WTH is this, Apple? My Windows 98 laptop can work faster than my iMac.
I'm open to any suggestions which will make my Mac work faster.
iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.10)
