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Q: MacBook Running slow

I got a relatively new MacBook (its just half a year old), I got 8GB ram, 2.8 GHZ i7, running 10.8.2

Lately it's been running super slow,,, most of the time safari is just either lagging or frozen or crashes, it takes forever to close psd, and the whole thing freezes up and takes its time to come back to life,,, other times its running fine... what could be the problem??

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Nov 27, 2012 12:01 PM

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  • by Abhi_99,

    Abhi_99 Abhi_99 Nov 2, 2014 2:49 AM in response to zen_kv
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    Nov 2, 2014 2:49 AM in response to zen_kv

    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

  • by Abhi_99,

    Abhi_99 Abhi_99 Nov 2, 2014 2:52 AM in response to Nowaii
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    Nov 2, 2014 2:52 AM in response to Nowaii

    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

  • by Abhi_99,

    Abhi_99 Abhi_99 Nov 2, 2014 2:53 AM in response to Gintoxic76
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    Nov 2, 2014 2:53 AM in response to Gintoxic76

    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

  • by Abhi_99,

    Abhi_99 Abhi_99 Nov 2, 2014 2:55 AM in response to topiarymailbox
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    Nov 2, 2014 2:55 AM in response to topiarymailbox

    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

  • by Rogerama,

    Rogerama Rogerama Nov 17, 2014 9:52 AM in response to Spencerlholbert
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    Nov 17, 2014 9:52 AM in response to Spencerlholbert

    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

  • by Skidrose,

    Skidrose Skidrose Nov 19, 2014 5:27 AM in response to AppleFixitGuy
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    Nov 19, 2014 5:27 AM in response to AppleFixitGuy

    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,

  • by Chiranjeeb.,

    Chiranjeeb. Chiranjeeb. Jan 11, 2015 8:37 AM in response to AppleFixitGuy
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    Jan 11, 2015 8:37 AM in response to AppleFixitGuy

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

  • by NickMCSWales,

    NickMCSWales NickMCSWales Jan 19, 2015 8:00 AM in response to AppleFixitGuy
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    Jan 19, 2015 8:00 AM in response to AppleFixitGuy

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

  • by ExtraLarge,

    ExtraLarge ExtraLarge Jan 25, 2015 12:15 PM in response to zen_kv
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    Jan 25, 2015 12:15 PM in response to zen_kv

    Yep,

    Seems to work. Thanks for this post.

  • by dzzzzzz,

    dzzzzzz dzzzzzz Jan 26, 2015 8:55 AM in response to AppleFixitGuy
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    Jan 26, 2015 8:55 AM in response to AppleFixitGuy

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

  • by Tom Nor,

    Tom Nor Tom Nor Mar 11, 2015 6:51 AM in response to AppleFixitGuy
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    Mar 11, 2015 6:51 AM in response to AppleFixitGuy

    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 !!

  • by bellbird182,

    bellbird182 bellbird182 Mar 12, 2015 10:01 AM in response to zen_kv
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    Mar 12, 2015 10:01 AM in response to zen_kv

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

  • by tomothy13579,

    tomothy13579 tomothy13579 Mar 30, 2015 5:08 AM in response to zen_kv
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    Mar 30, 2015 5:08 AM in response to zen_kv

    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)

  • by mikefromthe canyon,

    mikefromthe canyon mikefromthe canyon Apr 16, 2015 11:06 AM in response to zen_kv
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    Apr 16, 2015 11:06 AM in response to zen_kv

    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.

  • by ktkinsss,

    ktkinsss ktkinsss Apr 27, 2015 8:09 AM in response to AppleFixitGuy
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    Apr 27, 2015 8:09 AM in response to AppleFixitGuy

    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.

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