Mac OS Sierra Has Corrupted my Drive

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Mac OS Sierra Has Corrupted my Drive

Hello, Before I start off I do know that my iMac model is quite dated but I'm late to post this as this first started when OS Sierra was launched I had update my iMac and it started having issues such as: Beachballing, applications taking up to 1 minue to load or will bounce for what seems like minutes, status bar and dock will load slowly when logged in, photo booth freezes while recording and mac will beach ball during video recording and the Mac gets hot I have checked its temps I'm not too sure the average temperature of an i5 but my idle temp is around 95-105f also my CPU usage is high at idling it's anywhere from 70-90% and this is where the title comes into place I used disk utility to check my drive and it told me it had been corrupted I can't remember the exact message it was quite some time ago but I did it a couple of times and some results are Ok or it'll say it's damaged

iMac 21.5", macOS 10.12

Posted on Mar 28, 2019 9:40 AM

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Eric Root

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Mar 29, 2019 11:57 AM in response to Builderkid

Do a backup, preferable 2 separate ones on 2 drives. Boot to the Recovery Volume (command - R on a restart). Run Disk Utility and select First Aid. See if there are any errors shown. You may need to run First Aid more than once. Reboot normally.

Try setting up another admin user account to see if the same problem continues. Please post back on whether or not this worked. Also try the Safe Mode. Please post back on whether or not this worked.

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DonH49

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Mar 28, 2019 3:47 PM in response to Builderkid

it is not Sierra corrupted the drive but the USER making an inappropriate decision to install Sierra and probably not considering: age of Mac, type and age of the most likely platter hard drive which is most likely dying anyway. Compatibility of Applications installed before the Sierra install, I could go on and on but I think you get the message.

Your computer is most likely savable but you may not have the knowledge or skill set to tackle the job. If you know a Mac Guru , ask the person.

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Mac OS Sierra Has Corrupted my Drive

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