Is Mavericks making your machine run slow?

Just got off the phone with Apple Care. They had me unplug my IMAC for 15 seconds than plug it back in and wait 15 more seconds. my computer is back up to speed. He told me to do this every 3 months as it will reset the casche

This procedure didn't work for me. I searched for the command in help and was instructed to hold down the Option key and then choose Library from the Go menu.

In response to mick.r on Oct 5, 2013 1:24 AM: What is Indexing?

I am defenitly not liking Maverick right now!

My computer is running so slow and everything is verry buggy and sometimes doesn't even open my apps or files until I click on them 3 times.

Im a blogger and im in Marketing so I do everything on my computer, even watch tv, so im very dissapointed that my Quicktime Player has to convert every downloaded avi, and it doesn't help that that takes 30min each.

This is atarting to look a lot like the iPhone update... Great idea, great new features, great new look, but nothing works anymore!

I depend on my Mac Book Pro for life!

Tisk, Tisk, Apple you gotta get it together.

- Christal G.

Use your backup to reinstall your system as it was before you installed Mavericks.

Pete

I'm seriously thinking of doing this now,even though my issues seem slightly trivial.It can't be right for Mail to take over 30" to send an email, or for iMovie to simply not respond at all. Pete, if I may ask your advice. I have a Mountain Lion backup, made right before I upgraded to Mavericks. So, I guess I just boot in Recovery Mode and then revert to my back up ,then use Migration Assistant to restore all my apps,etc from the Time Machine back up. At least, this is what I'm being told by Apple's instructions. I ask, becasue I've heard of people being refused the option to revert to ML.

What I would prefer is to wipe and install Mavericks, then migrate all my stuff from the ML Time Machine back up. I beleive Mavericks is fine, once it's installed properly. Surely that possible.Thanks for your help once again!

Us as well - Macbook Pro 2010.

Startup is now 5min 36 seconds. To open iPhoto, iMovie pages now 3 minutes 9 seconds consistantly for 5 days.

Apple care says it takes a few days for laptop to re-index files then will work faster.

So far it appears that Apple is spending more on BS propoganda than on actually building and supporting their products.

Randy R. wrote:

Us as well - Macbook Pro 2010.

Startup is now 5min 36 seconds. To open iPhoto, iMovie pages now 3 minutes 9 seconds consistantly for 5 days.

Apple care says it takes a few days for laptop to re-index files then will work faster.

So far it appears that Apple is spending more on BS propoganda than on actually building and supporting their products.

You have serious problems here. Download and run

http://www.etresoft.com/download/EtreCheck.zip

and post back the output results.

Pete

I now realise that iMovie was not, not responding. It was merely taking an age to open. Not as long as yours, but still around the minute mark. The force quite info was telling me it wasn't respondng, then, eventually, it would launch. I just decided to wait, and wait and wait, then it opended. But the luanch time is very inconsistent.

What I don't understand it what is so different about the Mavericks OS that requires it to "settle down" in this manner ? Days?! Never had anything like this in any other Apple OS, going back a long way. Right now, I'm still hanging onto the hope that a revision will fix the couple of issues I'm experiencing. Generally, the system seems OK, but Apple-related apps are slower to launch than 3rd party ones!

Mavericks is PAINFULLY slow for me as well. iMac 2009.

I have install Mac OS X 10.9 Maverikcs last night. This morning my comptuer is suuuper slooow !
I have a MacBook Pro mid-2009 13" / 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo / 4 Go 1067 MHz DDR3

All others software updates were done too (Adobe, etc)

Mac Mail is top-slow particularly !

Help or Bug fix update soon maybe ???

My Mail is ridiculously sluggish.Connecting it and Safari to the internet, from a cold start, is unbelievably slow. Like dialup!

However, I've been doing quite a bit of research from all over, and reading some great advice and views on the Apple forums. I've decided that I'm going to wait for the revision, which will surely be soon. I understand, now, that Mavericks is based on a new arcihtecture, so it's not surpring that a few people are experiencing problems from installing it on top of ML. I think the fixes are on their way.

But I really cannot blame everything on third party stuff. Mail, and even Safari are quite happy to misbehave, without an help from other developers, I feel. I've noticed an enormous increase in Safari's hunger for RAM. I was under the impression it was more ecomonic! Thing, most of my system seems fine, and my main app, Logic is running great. It's not the spectacular OS that I was leads to believe. I don't really see that many "improvements" on ML. But this just the start in a new chapter, I guess. Still a great OS.

(replying myself) I have read a lot here about the problem, so I have tryed :

Restart CMD R - Disk Utility - Verifier les permissions - Reparer les permission... then Verifier le disque - Reperer le disque.

Guess what I have now !!

-- Utilitaire de disque ne peut pas réparer ce disque. Sauvegardez autant de fichier que possible, reformattez le disque, puis restaurez vos fichiers --

English means I got srewwed by Apple OS X Mavericks or what !!! Everything was fine in my life until then !!

Again, asking for help !

Update: Not good

Although "reinstalling" Mail solved my problem, I lost ALL of my years of Gmail older than 1 month!!!!

I believe Mail must have been in the process of "reindexing" or something?? It must have marked all those messages as "delete immediately"--but whatever the reason, all my years of mail are gone for good.

Be very careful

MPESGT01 wrote:

(replying myself)

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Again, asking for help !

Please start a new Discussion and include a description of your system. That's the only way to get the help you require. Thanks!