macbook air too slow

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Hi!I have had my macbook for almost a year and a half now... everything was fine with it until i upgrated to mavericks. i&#x27;ve read a lot of threads about other people having the same problem but i never understand how they fixed it, mostly because it is computer language that i can NOT understand... Thats why i bought a Mac so i wouldnt have to go through this :S I only use the computer for school work and music so i dont understand why the memory is so full, and everytime i connect my iphone it turns off and becomes even slower...  PLEASE HELP ME 😟 anyhow this is as much as i was able to collect i am close to making an appointmet for the genious bar ( but they are far from me) so if anyone can help i will be suuper greatfull 😀 and this is the EtrCheckHardware Information:          MacBook Air (11-inch, Mid 2012)          MacBook Air - model: MacBookAir5,1          1 1.7 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2 cores          4 GB RAMVideo Information:          Intel HD Graphics 4000 - VRAM: 1024 MBSystem Software:          OS X 10.9.2 (13C64) - Uptime: 1 day 6:10:14Disk Information:          APPLE SSD TS064E disk0 : (60.67 GB)                    EFI (disk0s1) &lt;not mounted&gt;: 209.7 MB                     Untitled (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 59.81 GB (5.57 GB free) (Low!)                    Recovery HD (disk0s3) &lt;not mounted&gt;: 650 MB USB Information:          Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)           Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad           Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub                     Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller FireWire Information:Thunderbolt Information:          Apple Inc. thunderbolt_busLaunch Daemons:          [System] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist 3rd-Party support linkUser Login Items:          iTunesHelperInternet Plug-ins:          Silverlight: Version: 5.1.20913.0 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link          DirectorShockwave: Version: 12.0.9r149 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link          Flash Player: Version: 13.0.0.182 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link          FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 13.0.0.182 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link          QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3          Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9Safari Extensions:          Searchme: Version: 1.3          Ebay Shopping Assistant: Version: 1.1          Amazon Shopping Assistant: Version: 1.1          Slick Savings: Version: 1.0Audio Plug-ins:          BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9          AirPlay: Version: 2.0 - SDK 10.9          AppleAVBAudio: Version: 203.2 - SDK 10.9          iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9iTunes Plug-ins:          Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.4 - SDK 10.93rd Party Preference Panes:          Flash Player  3rd-Party support linkOld Applications:          SLLauncher:          Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link                    /Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Silverlight/OutOfBrowser/SLLauncher.appTime Machine:          Time Machine not configured!Top Processes by CPU:               7%          Safari               4%          WindowServer               3%          EtreCheck               1%          configd               1%          hiddTop Processes by Memory:          61 MB          Safari          41 MB          Finder          29 MB          mds_stores          29 MB          EtreCheck          25 MB          WindowServerVirtual Memory Information:          2.15 GB          Free RAM          935 MB          Active RAM          118 MB          Inactive RAM          599 MB          Wired RAM          639 MB          Page-ins          0 B          Page-outs

dwb · Answer

I see 2 things that are worrisome. First you have only 5GB of freespace. Your operating system and programs create a large number of temporary files and Apple recommends that you keep about 10GB free to accomodate this. You&#x27;ll need to either find files/applications you can delete or move some data to an external hard drive. Media (movies, digital photos, and music are good candidates to move to an external drive because they are large and will free up space more rapidly than trying to find dozens of document files. For example, my entire Documents folder is smaller than one 2 hour movie.) I&#x27;ve learned that many people have very full Download folders - once you&#x27;ve installed a new program or update you can delete the installer.)The second worrisome thing has nothing to do with speed, it is that you don&#x27;t have TimeMachine configured. If you are using another backup program, fine. But if you have no regular backup system in place you need to be aware that it isn&#x27;t if but when you&#x27;ll have a catastrophic disk loss. If you aren&#x27;t backing up begin doing so.