MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2017) incredibly slow!!!

The Etrecheck report is intended to be posted back onto Apple Support Communities. The report is pre-laundered of any personally-identifiable information.

When many eyes can look at it, you get better results than just once person's scanning it for issues.

If you can set its preference to "allow full Disk Access" right before you say "GO", you get a digest of issues from the last 7 days that are saved in your system.

First, get rid of CleanMyMac. It guess badly and has a reputation for throwing out important parts of MacOS.

Antivirus software: Apple and CleanMyMac

App Cleaner is also not appropriate to be using on your Mac.

You may have made a mistake in allowing Vendor software to control your drive. If this extension does not load, such as during Safe Mode or Recovery, the drive may be inaccessible. Your drives should be controlled with Disk Utility ONLY, not a vendor's driver.

SamsungPortableSSDDriverX.kext (1.5.09 - SDK 10.12)

You seem to be using both:

RadioSilence and

a VPN.

These could indicate excessive paranoia, not appropriate for speedy use of your well-protected Mac. If you are behind a Router YOU control, your devices are invisible and unreachable from the Internet and these two add-ons are not needed.

This part of the report is very troubling:

Top Processes Snapshot by CPU:

Process (count) CPU (Source - Location)

Final Cut Pro 259.37 % (App Store)

Other processes 46.63 % (?)

EtreCheck 6.01 % (App Store)

Intel(R) Power Gadget 2.71 % (Intel Corporation Apps)

DashlaneAgent.app 0.35 % (Dashlane)

It is really unusual for some other "stuff" to be using eight times what Etrecheck is using, and not have a developer-name or App store identifier behind it. You need to think long and hard about the MANY things you have loaded and running in the background, and consider a thoughtful elimination of most of them.

Kernel Extensions:

/Library/Extensions

EnergyDriver.kext (3.5.5 - SDK 10.14)

ufsd_NTFS.kext (15.5.65 - SDK 10.10)

SamsungPortableSSDDriverX.kext (1.5.09 - SDK 10.12)

Launch Daemons:

[Loaded] com.adobe.acc.installer.plist (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2019-06-29)

[Running] com.adobe.acc.installer.v2.plist (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2019-11-20)

[Running] com.adobe.agsservice.plist (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2019-10-18)

[Loaded] com.apple.installer.osmessagetracing.plist (Apple - installed 2019-09-19)

[Loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac3.Agent.plist (MacPaw Inc. - installed 2019-06-16)

[Loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac4.Agent.plist (MacPaw Inc. - installed 2019-10-12)

[Loaded] com.microsoft.OneDriveStandaloneUpdaterDaemon.plist (Microsoft Corporation - installed 2019-11-18)

[Loaded] com.microsoft.OneDriveUpdaterDaemon.plist (Microsoft Corporation - installed 2019-11-18)

[Loaded] com.microsoft.autoupdate.helper.plist (Microsoft Corporation - installed 2019-11-13)

[Loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensingV2.helper.plist (Microsoft Corporation - installed 2019-10-14)

[Loaded] com.motionvfx.mInstaller.HelperTool.plist (Szymon Masiak - installed 2019-09-05)

[Loaded] com.paragon-software.installer.plist (Paragon Software GmbH - installed 2019-11-08)

[Loaded] com.paragon-software.ntfs.loader.plist (Apple - installed 2019-10-23)

[Running] com.paragon-software.ntfsd.plist (Paragon Software GmbH - installed 2019-09-12)

[Loaded] com.radiosilenceapp.nke.plist (Apple - installed 2019-10-23)

You are still loading and therefore running this software.

<<I was planing on doing a full wipe and just installing FCPX.>>

That is the best idea I have heard in a long time.

nisam01 wrote:

Hi everyone its my first time posting so bare with me.

I have a MBP 2017 (2.9 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7, Radeon Pro 560 4 GB) that i use mainly as my editing laptop but about a year ago my problems started.

I have to lose FCPX every 20/30min because the whole laptop freezes and it doesn’t matter what I'm editing it can be my iphone video, bmpcc file or footage from any of my cameras performance is the same!

Keep in mind that i only use 1080 were not talking about 4k raw files (even tho the internet says this laptop can handle that too but I'm not counting on that) and my projects are always light by design since i don't use effects or transitions.....

First i though it's overheating but i use fancontrol to keep them runing @ max to keep the temps down and ive even tested it with a big external fan blowing on it and still no difference (intel power gadget shows temps in 50s/60s and utilization od 30/35%)

So i really dont know what to do... i do have applecare on it but I'm trying to solve this so i'm not without my laptop for weeks and all of this reminds me of the old days when my win machine would go in a processor loop and max out everything !

Any help would be greatly appreciated but so far i've tried using mac cleaners (desperate) of course nothing, closing everything except final cut... nothing, offloading my projects to samsung t5 ssd... nothing, on internal ssd.... nothing, no matter what i do the outcome is still system freeze while editing that slows everything to a 3/4fps game (minimize fcpx thats beachballing) and the whole system is in slowmo....

Please help.

Welcome to the Apple Support Communities nisam01 !

See if you qualify here: https://support.apple.com/13-inch-macbook-pro-solid-state-drive-service

To get a good look at your System config. for conflicts or issues, you can run this utility http://etrecheck.com

If you need help interpreting the report you can post it here in its entirety in the "Additional Text" box in the editing toolbar below, in your reply.

To trouble shoot further you can:

Try a SafeBoot https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262

Takes noticeable longer to get to the login screen, does a 5-15 minute disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, including dynamic loader cache, etc. Login and test. Reboot and test.

This test will tell you if third party interference; extensions etc are not loaded in safe boot mode.

Test issue in another user (or guest user) account  https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204443

This will tell you if it a universal issue or isolated to your user/admin account. 

Those are lists go things that say they have loaded on your Mac and are running.

The best and most productive thing you could do is exactly what you suggested above, make a backup,, then erase and install only MacOS and Final Cut and just run that to see if walking away from a whole lot of stuff would make your Mac faster. It expect it will.