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Mavericks has ruined my Mac

I "upgraded" to mavericks a couple of weeks ago and like many many others have had serious problems with performance. The new OS has rendered the device virtually unusable.

Start-up - very slow to log in screen. Then very slow (5 minutes or more) to desktop. Lots of beachballs.

Click on menu in finder. Delayed drop down.

Drag a small file from the desktop to a finder window. Copy dialog!!! Like I was moving several gigs from my drive to an external.

So I throw up my hands, boot into recovery console, erase hard drive (even though I get errors saying live update not supported), then restore from Tiem Machine backup.

Result? Still very slow. I can only conlcude that this new OS is too much for my four year old Mac.

So I need to go back. The directions for doing so in this forum are ABSURD! Copy my user files and lots of other files manually to an external drive? The back up that drive? Then install Mountain Lion (from which disk? Last disk I have is a snow leopard upgrade).

I have owned Macs since 1985. Not kidding. This is unacceptable. Reminds me of why I hate Windows (machines run slowwwwlllyyy after a year or two and can't handle upgrades).

Any advice other than buy a new iMac would be appreciated!!

iMac (24-inch Mid 2007), OS X Mavericks (10.9), 4 gb ram

Posted on Nov 20, 2013 2:18 PM

57 replies

ericrain

Level 1

8 points

Dec 15, 2013 10:00 AM in response to geocip

Wow. You people are small and testy. I suggest you go and do some activities that require human person to person interaction for a while. It may be of benefit behind the keyboard in the future.

Csound1

Level 9

59,973 points

Dec 15, 2013 10:03 AM in response to ericrain

I'll place your suggestion in front of the committee, we will contact you if further guidance is required.

Dec 15, 2013 10:04 AM in response to Csound1

It’s unfortunate that many of you have bastardized the spirit and intent of this site with your imagined/contrived protocols and etiquette.

This is a “community” support forum. Most of us who come here are not interested in “points” and “scores” or “Levels”, as if we were playing a game of Warcraft.

We come here looking for answers. Example: if you Google “Mavericks ruined my Mac” – it will bring you to this thread on this forum.

So far I have helped one (1) person with my “thread jumping”. How many have you helped with your public berating?

I noticed you didn’t jump in this thread until long after the original post was resolved.

…and no I don’t want the Warcraft points added to my community support profile.

Dec 15, 2013 10:06 AM in response to Csound1

Csound1 wrote:

I'll place your suggestion in front of the committee, we will contact you if further guidance is required.

Is that the papal we or the queens we?

Csound1

Level 9

59,973 points

Dec 15, 2013 10:08 AM in response to David M Brewer

The Queen of course 🙂

Csound1

Level 9

59,973 points

Dec 15, 2013 10:10 AM in response to Ol' Mitch

Ol\' Mitch wrote:

It’s unfortunate that many of you have bastardized the spirit and intent of this site with your imagined/contrived protocols and etiquette.

This is a “community” support forum. Most of us who come here are not interested in “points” and “scores” or “Levels”, as if we were playing a game of Warcraft.

We come here looking for answers. Example: if you Google “Mavericks ruined my Mac” – it will bring you to this thread on this forum.

So far I have helped one (1) person with my “thread jumping”. How many have you helped with your public berating?

I noticed you didn’t jump in this thread until long after the original post was resolved.

…and no I don’t want the Warcraft points added to my community support profile.

Points are awarded for helping to solve or solving users issues, and they are awarded by the user. The amount of help is reflected by the points score of the helper.

Did the user you helped not award points to you for the help?

ericrain

Level 1

8 points

Dec 15, 2013 10:16 AM in response to geocip

I'll just say thanks again Mitch. You've got pints in my book. As for awarding points, I'm gonna start a new thread on that. Could all you great helpers jump in and explain how to do that?

Gee, thanks guys.

Csound1

Level 9

59,973 points

Dec 15, 2013 10:30 AM in response to ericrain

Go to the forum of your choice and then press the Start a Discussion link. (top right)

ericrain

Level 1

8 points

Dec 15, 2013 10:34 AM in response to Csound1

Now you're getting it! I'm currently in the public forum of MY choice. Good job

petermac87

Level 5

7,447 points

Dec 15, 2013 1:25 PM in response to ericrain

Very Good. So what do you have to offer on the Original Posters problem?

Cheers

Pete

Dec 15, 2013 2:33 PM in response to petermac87

Update iBooks and thrive...

petermac87

Level 5

7,447 points

Dec 15, 2013 4:53 PM in response to Ol' Mitch

And that will resurrect the original posters dead hard drive? Amazing. The update for iBooks only states it will fix issues in iBooks. But you can't tell as you stated you never use iBooks.

But thanks for the cure all.

Pete

Mavericks has ruined my Mac