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I purchased by MacBook Pro in 2013 and it was recently updated to Mojave. It is running incredibly slow and freezes at times. I have cleaning out as much as I can for now and there is over 600 GB of 750 GB of storage available. Any advice on what I can do to get this thing running better?
Thanks!
MacBook Pro
First boot into Safe Mode, reboot normally and see if there's been any improvement in the performance.
NOTE: Safe Mode boot can take up to 10 minutes as it's doing some system cache cleaning, volume verifying and directory repairing.
If not then download and run Etrecheck. Etrecheck is a diagnostic tool that was developed by one of the most respected users here in the ASC and recommended by Apple Support to provide a snapshot of the system and help identify the more obvious culprits that can adversely affect a Mac's performance.
Copy the report
and use the Add Text button to include the report in your reply. How to use the Add Text Feature When Posting Large Amounts of Text, i.e. an Etrecheck Report
Before running Etrecheck assign Full Disk Access to Etrecheck so that it can get additional information from the Console and log files for the report:
Then we can examine the report and see if we can determine what's causing the problem..
First boot into Safe Mode, reboot normally and see if there's been any improvement in the performance.
NOTE: Safe Mode boot can take up to 10 minutes as it's doing some system cache cleaning, volume verifying and directory repairing.
If not then download and run Etrecheck. Etrecheck is a diagnostic tool that was developed by one of the most respected users here in the ASC and recommended by Apple Support to provide a snapshot of the system and help identify the more obvious culprits that can adversely affect a Mac's performance.
Copy the report
and use the Add Text button to include the report in your reply. How to use the Add Text Feature When Posting Large Amounts of Text, i.e. an Etrecheck Report
Before running Etrecheck assign Full Disk Access to Etrecheck so that it can get additional information from the Console and log files for the report:
Then we can examine the report and see if we can determine what's causing the problem..
MacBook Pro Running Slow and Freezing
