Q: Is Mavericks making your machine run slow?

I thought I was working on a smooth and the fastest Imac 27 inch machine. And an upgrade to Mavericks would make it perform  even better. NOT!

It slowed down my Mac

But even worse is opening Photoshop CC, it takes over ten minutes and while it's open no other programs are working smoothly anymore.

And the worst, I have to present 12 images by tommorrow for a magazine, bye bye income. Thank you Apple

All was fine but after the upgrade all is a disaster

Did all the updates, did a java update, did install new drivers for the Wacom, unchecked the graphic accelerator in PS,...nothing worked.

Did anybody else find the solution with a reinstall of Mavericks?

Lars van de Goor

Having issues after new OSX installs is very frustrating. More so when you see so may having no issues at all. In my case, I hardly notice any difference to Mountain Lion. In performance, speed or stability. Only that I had to upgrade Little Snitch, which I should have done earlier anyway. So finding an 'easy fix' is relevant to each individuals problem. The OP here has issues with connecting online. Others with HDs showing as damaged. Others with certain Apps not working. Very few with all of these. Therefore each user with issues needs to look closely at the posts relevant to their problem and not go on an all out attack on Mavericks as being corrupt or unusable, as that is just a small minority opinion (looks bigger here because it is a Troubleshooting forum, so you won't see much positive!). Also keep in mind that other users here (we are not Apple) are still learning about Mavericks as well, seeing that it has only been out for under a week.

So basically, yes, some users will have some issues, but they are generally fixable and usually relate to Third-Party installs or failing hardware.

Also using someone else's thread for different problem solving can most often end in confusion, and therefore it is recommended to start your own thread, even if you think your problem is similar, because most often it is not.

Cheers and Good Luck

Pete

Thanks

Sorry

I am new here

I posted it under a more suitable topic

Cheers

Lars

Hi Sharks1

I'm running Mavericks on several 2011 iMacs and they're all faster than any previous OS X version. If you would please start a new Discussion perhaps we can figure out why yours isn't running as it should. Thanks!

Hi, I think it is a very good idea.

We have to open a new discussion: How to fix slowy working of Mavericks.

This discussion should be mean to person who had slow issue with mavericks and how they fixed it.

Sorry for my bad english..

Osx Mavericks slows down my computer, safari is very slow, and opening widescreen apps takes forever, hopefully there will be bug fixes in the s=next version, which I hope is soon.

These are not bugs. It is your computer and/or install practices.

Cheers

Pete

lil.cutie wrote:

 

Osx Mavericks slows down my computer,

lil.cutie no one can possibly know a thing about your computer unless you provide some detail about it. Until you do that any subsequent version isn't going to fix anything.

If you start a new Discussion you can start addressing what's wrong. Thanks!

I finally solved this for my machine. It was Mail for me. It got to the point where it was taking up 5 gig of memory and never even came up. I essentially reinstalled Mail by closing mail, moving all the files in Library/Mail/V2, restarting mail, and manually setting up mail accounts again. Thought I would be able to restore my local archived mail forlders by morning those mailboxes back, but that hasn't worked. But my computer is working very fast now

I read something about this before, but was unable to locate this V2 folder. I've looked everywhere,even did a search, but nothing comes up! Where is this , please? I went to library and can't even locate a Mail folder...

I believe that Mail is causing me problems also.Thanks.

Make sure its the library under your user name. Also, Library doesn't show up by default, you have to click "Show Library Folder" under "View Options" in your user name directory

Thank you very much,sir: really appreciated. Why they would choose to hide this item is beyond me. I get a progressive feeling that Apple's once easy to use, intuitive OS is becoming ever more Windows-like.

I will now take a look at this Mail issue,based on yuor "fix". Hope it workds for me, because something is not right with it.

Have you tried to fix file permissions and scan your disk for errors already? Seems like one of your old mail files may be causing the issue.

michaelvee wrote:

 

Thank you very much,sir: really appreciated. Why they would choose to hide this item is beyond me. I get a progressive feeling that Apple's once easy to use, intuitive OS is becoming ever more Windows-like.

 

I will now take a look at this Mail issue,based on yuor "fix". Hope it workds for me, because something is not right with it.

I believe the User Library was hidden from Lion onwards to try to make it 'idiot-proof'. So many were messing with data they should not have been interfering with.

Cheers

Pete

You can now easily show it now in your Home folder's View Options.