IMac beachballing mystery -- see etrecheck report
My client has an iMac with pretty awful beach balling. The hard drive — the usual slow 5400 RPM drive – checks out OK. I have done all the usual troubleshooting that usually fixes stuff like this: deleted malware, deleted the Finder plist, put it into safe mode, re-indexed spotlight, created a new user account, etc. etc. – all the usual things that typically clear up (or at least find a cause) of problems like these.
These measures definitely improved performance some, but something is still very
wrong. Etrecheck reports poor performance but it is not clear to me why,
although I'm sure more talented community members will. ( I do see that it
reports a problem with unspecifiied antivirus software, but the only such
software installed as far as I can see is the free version of Malwarebytes
which typically has not caused me problems in the past.)
Finally, the client reports that these problems have carried over from his previous Mac.
He says he bought the new iMac several years ago to address the issue of
excessive beach balling, and somehow the new computer inherited the problem. I
tend to think that's unlikely, perhaps a coincidence caused by separate issues.
Etrecheck
report below. I'm grateful in advance for any feedback.
iMac Line (2012 and Later)
