My MBP suddenly starts to work slowly

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My MBP suddenly starts to work slowly

Hello everyone,

Last night i was imported my photos and videos from my canon 5d with iphoto. After imported images i shutdown the program and my laptop.

After i came home i try to open the laptop and it failed. So i tried to start with safemode and it worked. But now its working incredibly slowly and everytime i try to move those images or starting the iphoto, its works really really slowly and cant move the image files. Any ideas?

Thanks,

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Jan 24, 2012 6:01 AM

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BDAqua

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Jan 24, 2012 10:06 AM in response to Efe Yilmaz

Hello Efe,

How much free space is on the Hard Drive? highlight it & do a Get Info on it.

Do you have lots of files on the Desktop?

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Efe Yilmaz Author

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Jan 24, 2012 10:58 AM in response to BDAqua

Well i got 100gb free space of 250gb. And yes got lots of files in main partition.

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BDAqua

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Jan 24, 2012 11:04 AM in response to Efe Yilmaz

OK, that should be plenty of free space, but on the actual Desktop, how many items are there, more than 20-30 can really slow down OSX. 100s of items on the Desktop can grind OSX to a near standstill.

Open Activity Monitor in Applications>Utilities, select All Processes & sort on CPU%, any indications there?

How much RAM & free space do you have also, click on the Memory & Disk Usage Tabs.

In the Memory tab, are there a lot of Pageouts?

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Efe Yilmaz Author

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Jan 25, 2012 2:15 AM in response to BDAqua

Last night before i went to bed try to update that combo update here is the link http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1399

now its completely crashed 🙂 im gonna find a firewire cable and transport my data than rebuild the system 🙂

thanks for your help anyways 🙂

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