I’m mildly surprised this Mac even boots.
I’d wipe this Mac and start over.
Between the cleaners and the add-on anti-malware and the rest, anything that corrupts the system can be hard to find and harder still to resolve. Cleaners and de-dup tools and tuning tools and anti-malware can introduce issues and corruptions.
I see MacKeeper and BitDefender and some MacPaw bits and Cleaner One Pro, etc. These and similar tools usually get removed around here, preferably using either the built-in security or add-on endpoint security.
It’s also an 8 GB HDD configuration, which will forever be slow. This Mac is massively overloaded. An SSD can help, but it’s still a very old and obsolete Mac. There are of course a whole lot of folks that will happily offer you “fixes” for an under-purchased Mac of course. Fixes which can make things worse.
And this stuff:
“18317518689845093659/604464573749512250 9D52CB28-5F43-5C14-9BCC-9B47097C49CE 1137”
“com.11595215900288955508._11595215900288955508/_2559284840949291113”
”net.6063872109184366263.9DF54D5F-9B91-46E4-B962-63C854FCB877.plist”
”com.15703586462797250949.plist”
…looks really sketchy. Adware? Malware?
Microsoft Silverlight is still here, too. That got retired.
I’ve seen reports that at least some versions of that “freedownloadmanager” app might not be desirable.
Some old Starfield backup stuff?
I’d look for an update to Roxio.
Still using the Samsung SmartSwitch?
That looping ensd process from CHENGDU Yiwo (probably part of the EaseUS backup tool) isn’t helping things.
If the EaseUS stuff isn’t working and if Time Machine is offline for as long as it has and no other backup is in use, get some backups of your data.
This Mac is just … a mess.
I’d get a couple of backups, wipe it and reload, and migrate documents and settings, and manually re-install current apps.
The only real fix for the performance issues—this Mac was probably under-purchased when new, and it’s only gotten more overloaded in the past ~decade—is more memory (8 GB is far too little) and an SSD, or a newer or new replacement Mac.
