I recently installed Lion and my computer is running very slow. It hangs up while using multi touch gestures. Icons on desktop dissapear. It is sluggish and unreliable for my work. I neeeed a fix.
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)
My late-2007 iMac was very slow until Spotlight was done indexing. It took a few hours.
Even after that, things felt very slow for a few days. Lion must be doing something in the background after installation over Snow Leopard. I don't know what - creating some kind of Versions database, maybe? In any case, my iMac now seems as snappy as it did with Snow Leopard and I'm very pleased with all the new Lion features. Give yours a few days to "settle" after upgrading - hopefully your system's response will be similar to mine.
My late-2007 iMac was very slow until Spotlight was done indexing. It took a few hours.
Even after that, things felt very slow for a few days. Lion must be doing something in the background after installation over Snow Leopard. I don't know what - creating some kind of Versions database, maybe? In any case, my iMac now seems as snappy as it did with Snow Leopard and I'm very pleased with all the new Lion features. Give yours a few days to "settle" after upgrading - hopefully your system's response will be similar to mine.
How much free space on the disk?
Right or control click the MacintoshHD icon on your Desktop then click Get Info.
See: Capacity & Availalble
Never allow the free space to fall below 15% of the capacity. That can slow the drive down.
I just read about how to check spotlight indexing, spotlight being something I never use. It is still indexing though I put Lion on here over a week ago. The versions theory is possible. How long did you have until it returned to normal. I know before the Lion upgrade I was very pleased. Now not so much but if more time is needed then thats doable because i do love the features lion has.
40% available. and ive ran verify and repair and cleanmymac 'free'ware to remove caches logs and junk
My MBP was slow(er) for several days since upgrading from SL. As John Hammer says, there may be tasks running in the background? Spotlight seriously slowed it down whilst re-indexing. Now it is back to a great speed, although a few minor tasks do seem to bring up the beachball moreso than in SL. Regarding the icons, I can't comment as I don't have any on my desktop.
Actually, third party maintenance utilities can cause more problems then they're worth.
If you aren't aware, your Mac can run the maintenance scripts for you if you leave your Mac on over night once a month ( not in sleep mode).
Mac OS X: About background maintenance tasks
I take that back. Apparentely that doesn't work for Lion v10.7. 😟 My mistake.
it just says, "In Mac OS X v10.6 and later" so I'm not sure if that includes Lion.
Well I guess i will hold out then for it to speed up. Hope it comes soon. Also is there anyway to pick and choose which programs wills save windows for when you reopen them. App in question is iDVD it took forever to open because i closed it with an open project. Is that possible at all?
"If you aren't aware, your Mac can run the maintenance scripts for you if you leave your Mac on over night once a month ( not in sleep mode)."
I wasn't aware... thanks for that info! 🙂
Apparently not for Lion. 😕 v10.6, 10.5, and 10.4 yes.
Well maybe I should test some apps by uninstalling them one at a time and seeing if speed improves.
Oh well... maybe in a future update? Daniel_77c, I'd recommend checking what applications are running and see whats hogging your CPU.
Applications > Utilities > Activity Monitor
I have seen "cleanmymac" so often in the past, with SL, that I would not, and never even with a 'good' utility, leave it to run automatically. To flush a font or dns cache when you know or have reason to, fine.
But if I was looking for a Swiss Army Knife, I'd give a nod to Lion Cache Cleaner - I used it off and on since at least back to 10.3 "Panther." It includes Memtest and ClamXav and their updates among dozens of other features - there if needed.
Backup clones, probably near essential inthe past and maybe even now too.
Why is my MBP so slow after installing lion?
