MacBook Running slow

Simple steps: (You can try from Step 3- 5)

1) took a Genius bar appointment at an Apple Store nearby Apple - Concierge

2) Associate was very knowledgeable. He performed the necessary hardware check. All was good

3) It happened that my FileVault setting (System Preferences) was Turned ON & the harddisk was seem to be encrypting.

4) All you need to do is allow the disk to encrypt Overnight & once done Turn OFF the FileVault setting setting.

5) The disk will continue to decrypt in the background.

Regards,

Abhi_99

Simple steps: (You can try from Step 3- 5)

1) took a Genius bar appointment at an Apple Store nearby Apple - Concierge

2) Associate was very knowledgeable. He performed the necessary hardware check. All was good

3) It happened that my FileVault setting (System Preferences) was Turned ON & the harddisk was seem to be encrypting.

4) All you need to do is allow the disk to encrypt Overnight & once done Turn OFF the FileVault setting setting.

5) The disk will continue to decrypt in the background.

Regards,

Abhi_99

Simple steps: (You can try from Step 3- 5)

1) took a Genius bar appointment at an Apple Store nearby Apple - Concierge

2) Associate was very knowledgeable. He performed the necessary hardware check. All was good

3) It happened that my FileVault setting (System Preferences) was Turned ON & the harddisk was seem to be encrypting.

4) All you need to do is allow the disk to encrypt Overnight & once done Turn OFF the FileVault setting setting.

5) The disk will continue to decrypt in the background.

Regards,

Abhi_99

Simple steps: (You can try from Step 3- 5)

1) took a Genius bar appointment at an Apple Store nearby Apple - Concierge

2) Associate was very knowledgeable. He performed the necessary hardware check. All was good

3) It happened that my FileVault setting (System Preferences) was Turned ON & the harddisk was seem to be encrypting.

4) All you need to do is allow the disk to encrypt Overnight & once done Turn OFF the FileVault setting setting.

5) The disk will continue to decrypt in the background.

Regards,

Abhi_99

I tried that, but got the following response:

unable to purge disk buffers: operation not permitted

Any advice?

I'm running Yosemite on a Mac Book Air 2

Hi AppleFixitGuy,

I'm having problem with my Mac OS x10.7 (MacBook Pro 8.1), i have this Mac for about 2 1/2 years. Now i experienced running slow it takes time to turn on my laptop its about 5-10 minutes before it start.

Then if I open Safari to log on to Facebook, Tweeter etc. it also runs slow, i also experience everytime i hit like button on facebook it will open a pop-up on new tab. Its the same problem when i watched online like NBA or any news videos its always appear pop-up on the new tab. The worst experience is sometimes when i plug the mobile to charge, its totally shutoff my mac 😟 I hope you can also help with my mac problem...

Please assist.

Thanks & regards,

Thanks a lot!!! It worked like as smooth as slik.

Thank you. Whatever this is (have not read the whole thread), you have saved my sanity.

Yep,

Seems to work. Thanks for this post.

God bless you AppleFixitGuy 🙂 my macbook pro was freezing and now it works super fast

This is astonishingly helpful it worked immediately. Activity Monitor which was always showing very full statistics and constantly freezing up seems to have been solved by this. Thank you AppleFixitGuy !!

Got a really dim question.... I don't seem to have an 'option' button on my laptop... left shift-ctrl-option-power....anyone advise???

Also have a bit of a simple question, does this do anything to the contents of the macbook? i.e will i lose any documents/files by using the shift+control+option+power trickery?

Thanks (y)

Another thing that can cause slow responses (i.e. the beach ball) is Safari. If you look at the Activity Monitor and "Safari" or "Safari Web Content" seem to be consuming a lot of CPU%, try doing a Safari reset. In the pulldown under Safari, click on "reset Safari". You'll have to reload all the tabs or windows you had, and go back and set your Safari preferences again (they will be reset to their default values), Good luck.

THANK YOU!

I cannot believe it was so simple to get my MacBook Pro running at a normal speed again. I was so confused as to why it became excruciatingly slow one day as I only use it for Microsoft Word files (maybe 50 saved) and 2 saved photos.