I have slow down problems with my 1 year-old Mac. Internet browsing takes much more time with Safari and Firefox. Opening and scrolling up/down pdf files also takes much more time. It has more than 20% memory, already checked activity monitor (no CPU usage more than 5-10%), tried to verify the disk on disk utility application but didn't work. It says 'The volume Macintosh HD needs to be repaired.. Invalid volume file count..'. I haven't backed up my system so far. I appreciate any kind of help regarding this problem.
Okan D wrote:
It says 'The volume Macintosh HD needs to be repaired.. Invalid volume file count..'.
This makes me think you need to actually run a repair.....verify doesn't do anything repair wise.
Try using Disk Utility to do a
Disk Repair, as shown
in this link, while booted up on your install disk.
You have some directory corruption. Let us know what errors Disk Utility reports and if DU was able to repair them. Disk Utility's Disk Repair is not perfect and may not find or repair all directory issues. A stronger utility may be required to finish the job.