Q: Slow Macbook Pro after clean install Mavericks

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Gosh, I thought mine was bad. Seeing some of the problems people are having almost cheers me up.

My issues are, as others, all about speed. Opening apps now takes a few seconds longer, memory seems to be getting gobbled up for no reason and things like right clicking on a file to choose 'open with' takes many seconds for the list of apps to appear and then the icons come lagging about 20 seconds behind.

Nothing I can't live with with - I have decent happy pills - but it sure is annoying that a few weeks ago everything was smooth, reasonable quick and responsive and, for the sake of (what are the new features exactly?) - I now have a slower computer with delays when I click things.

Martin

Hi martinkoss

If you are motivated to fix those problems please start a new Discussion.

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  1. Go to Finder> Click on "Go" from Menu Bar at the top of the Computer Screen> Select Computer from Drop Down Menu> Select Macintosh HD> Select /Library Folder> Select Caches Folder and Move it to Trash

  2. Go back to "Go" in the Menu Bar at the Top of the Screen> Hold the Option Key on the Keyboard and select the Library Folder that appears under Home in the Drop Down Menu> Select Caches Folder and Drag to the Trash and select Merge

  3. Go to Black Apple in the top left of the Computer Screen> Select System Prefrences from Drop Down Menu> Go To Users & Groups in fourth Row of Icons> Select Login Items at the top of the new Window> Clear out an unnecessary Programs by highlighting the Program and selecting the "-" at the bottom of the window next to the '+"

  4. Go back to the Black Apple and then select Shutdown from the Drop Down menu

  5. When Turning Computer Back on Boot into Safe Mode (Hold Shift Key after hearing the Startup Noise) Release Shift Key when you see Apple with Spinning Gear and Progress Bar underneath> Once at Login Screen Select shutdown Computer in Bottom Right of Screen

  6. Now unplug any Preferral Devices (including Ethernet Cable, Keyboard, ext...) Take Plug out of the Back of the Computer this is known as reseting the SMC

  7. Plug Everthing back in you unplugged, Turn on Computer, When you hear Startup Noise Hold Down all at the same time Command+Option+P+R, if you do this correctly the Screen should go Black, then White and make the Start up Noise Again, when you hear the Startup Noise for a Third Time, you can remove you hands from the Keyboard

  8. Login like Normal

  9. Continuation... If you have any Third Party Software such as Norton Anti Virus, MacKeeper (Malware), or any other types of Anti Virus software, Remove these from the Computer

  10. If those Troubleshooting Steps should fail, Verify and Repair Disk from Recovery HD,  Re Install OS from Recovery Partition. If you are running anything less than 6GBS of RAM, consider updating your RAM, if Re-Install does not Work, Make a back up of your Data, and then perform an Erase and Install

joaomalveiro wrote:

 

Any fix for our problems? I see a lot of people happy with their updates into 10.9, but not a single Macbook Pro Mid 2010 owner.... how are we going to fix this mess? or should i just install ML again?

Until you replace your aftermarket SSD with one that supports Mavericks, regressing to ML may be your only option. Reports of third party SSD incompatibility are common on this site.