Apple SSD Trim enabler

Hi Cunnla,

thanks for your swift reaction. I ran Etrecheck and focussed on the performance ('Computer is too slow') and it produced the below report. I was recommended Disk Sensei and it automatically enabled TRIM (so I was happy not to go into using Terminal...). My first impression however is not that SSD speed increased.

With regard to your question about Sierra, Apple states that Sierra can only be installed on MBP if the laptop is younger than 2010. Mine is from 2009.

Looking forward to your reply.

regards,

EtreCheck version: 3.4 (420)

Report generated 2017-07-20 18:42:58

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Runtime: 3:09

Performance: Good

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Problem: Computer is too slow

Hardware Information:ⓘ

MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2009)

[Technical Specifications] - [User Guide] - [Warranty & Service]

MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro5,3

1 2,66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (Duo) CPU: 2-core

4 GB RAM Upgradeable - [Instructions]

BANK 0/DIMM0

2 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok

BANK 1/DIMM0

2 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok

Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported

Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n

Battery: Health = Normal - Cycle count = 1001

Video Information:ⓘ

NVIDIA GeForce 9400M - VRAM: 256 MB

Color LCD 1440 x 900

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT - VRAM: 256 MB

Disk Information:ⓘ

OCZ-VERTEX2 disk0: (180,05 GB) (Solid State - TRIM: Yes)

[Show SMART report]

(disk0s1) <not mounted> [EFI]: 210 MB

Macintosh HD (disk0s2 - Journaled HFS+) / [Startup]: 179.05 GB (25.59 GB free)

(disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB

MATSHITADVD-R UJ-868 ()

USB Information:ⓘ

USB20Bus

Apple Inc. Built-in iSight

USB20Bus

Apple Card Reader

USBBus

Apple Inc. BRCM2046 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

USBBus

Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad

Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver

Firewire Information:ⓘ

Iomega eGo HDD 800mbit - 800mbit max

(disk1s1) <not mounted> [partition_map]: 32 KB

(disk1s2) <not mounted> [Driver43]: 29 KB

(disk1s3) <not mounted> [Driver43]: 29 KB

(disk1s4) <not mounted> [Driver_ATA]: 29 KB

(disk1s5) <not mounted> [Driver_ATA]: 29 KB

(disk1s6) <not mounted> [FWDriver]: 262 KB

(disk1s7) <not mounted> [Driver_IOKit]: 262 KB

(disk1s8) <not mounted> [Patches]: 262 KB

WAMKIEVITSHD2 (disk1s10 - Journaled HFS+) /Volumes/WAMKIEVITSHD2 : 499.97 GB (312.13 GB free)

System Software:ⓘ

OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 (15G1510) - Time since boot: about 7 hours

Gatekeeper:ⓘ

Mac App Store and identified developers

Kernel Extensions:ⓘ

/Applications/Disk Sensei.app

[not loaded] org.cindori.TrimEnabler (1.0 - SDK 10.10) [Lookup]

/Library/Extensions

[loaded] com.symantec.SymXIPS (8.1 - SDK 10.10) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.symantec.internetSecurity.kext (6.6.1 - SDK 10.11) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.symantec.ips.kext (6.6.1 - SDK 10.11) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.symantec.nfm.kext (6.6.1 - SDK 10.11) [Lookup]

/System/Library/Extensions

[not loaded] com.livescribe.kext.LivescribeSmartpen (1.0) [Lookup]

[not loaded] com.tomtom.driver.UsbEthernetGadget (1.0.0d1) [Lookup]

Startup Items:ⓘ

cma: Path: /Library/StartupItems/cma

HWNetMgr: Path: /Library/StartupItems/HWNetMgr

HWPortDetect: Path: /Library/StartupItems/HWPortDetect

Qmaster: Path: /Library/StartupItems/Qmaster

StartOuc: Path: /Library/StartupItems/StartOuc

Startup items no longer function in OS X Yosemite or later

System Launch Agents:ⓘ

[not loaded] 9 Apple tasks

[loaded] 154 Apple tasks

[running] 61 Apple tasks

[killed] 15 Apple tasks

15 processes killed due to insufficient RAM

System Launch Daemons:ⓘ

[not loaded] 47 Apple tasks

[loaded] 160 Apple tasks

[running] 71 Apple tasks

[killed] 12 Apple tasks

12 processes killed due to insufficient RAM

Launch Agents:ⓘ

[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2017-04-25) [Lookup]

[not loaded] com.adobe.AdobeCreativeCloud.plist (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2016-05-11) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist (? ec04003a be93c7fb - installed 2017-04-22) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.symantec.errorreporter-periodicagent.NFM.plist (Symantec - installed 2017-04-27) [Lookup]

[running] com.symantec.uiagent.application.NFM.plist (? bb2fc896 9d9c503b - installed 2017-04-27) [Lookup]

[not loaded] com.teamviewer.teamviewer.plist (? ? ? - installed 2017-07-20) [Lookup]

[not loaded] com.teamviewer.teamviewer_desktop.plist (TeamViewer GmbH - installed 2017-07-20) [Lookup]

Launch Daemons:ⓘ

[running] com.adobe.adobeupdatedaemon.plist (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2016-05-11) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.adobe.agsservice.plist (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2016-10-13) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist (? 2afb3af7 18a4fa69 - installed 2017-06-23) [Lookup]

[running] com.fitbit.galileod.plist (Fitbit, Inc. - installed 2015-06-19) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist (Google, Inc. - installed 2017-01-24) [Lookup]

[running] com.livescribe.PenCommService.plist (? ce8953a9 aeebb45a - installed 2015-09-25) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac3.Agent.plist (MacPaw Inc. - installed 2017-06-17) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.microsoft.autoupdate.helper.plist (Microsoft Corporation - installed 2017-04-14) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist (? 6d8cb30e 8b29c3ef - installed 2012-04-02) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist (Shell Script e3fefdd2 - installed 2017-03-15) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.symantec.SymLUHelper.NFM.plist (Symantec - installed 2017-04-21) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.symantec.UninstallerToolHelper.plist (? 12e114bd 758e8cb1 - installed 2016-05-24) [Lookup]

[running] com.symantec.deepsight-extractor.NFM.plist (Symantec - installed 2017-04-21) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.symantec.errorreporter-periodic.NFM.plist (Symantec - installed 2017-04-27) [Lookup]

[failed] com.symantec.liveupdate.daemon.NFM.plist (Symantec - installed 2017-04-21) [Lookup]

[running] com.symantec.nfm.wps.plist (Symantec - installed 2017-04-21) [Lookup]

[running] com.symantec.sharedsettings.NFM.plist (Symantec - installed 2017-04-21) [Lookup]

[running] com.symantec.symdaemon.NFM.plist (? d6742677 62dee93 - installed 2017-04-21) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.teamviewer.Helper.plist (TeamViewer GmbH - installed 2015-12-08) [Lookup]

[not loaded] com.teamviewer.teamviewer_service.plist (? ? ? - installed 2017-07-20) [Lookup]

[loaded] org.cindori.SenseiTool.plist (Oskar Groth - installed 2017-07-20) [Lookup]

User Launch Agents:ⓘ

[loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist (? c8cc50de 5d4e76c3 - installed 2017-04-28) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist (? 881a4a1c e757384f - installed 2017-04-25) [Lookup]

[running] com.akamai.single-user-client.plist (? bff92b5b 6a3689c4 - installed 2017-01-23) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.dropbox.DropboxMacUpdate.agent.plist (Dropbox, Inc. - installed 2017-07-14) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac3.Scheduler.plist (MacPaw Inc. - installed 2017-07-20) [Lookup]

[running] com.spotify.webhelper.plist (Spotify - installed 2017-07-20) [Lookup]

User Login Items:ⓘ

CleanMyMac 3 Menu Programma (MacPaw Inc. - installed 2017-06-14)

(/Applications/CleanMyMac 3.app/Contents/MacOS/CleanMyMac 3 Menu.app)

Dropbox Programma

(/Applications/Dropbox.app)

Spotify Programma - Hidden

(/Applications/Spotify.app)

TomTom MyDrive Connect Programma

(/Applications/TomTom MyDrive Connect.app)

Internet Plug-ins:ⓘ

o1dbrowserplugin: 5.41.3.0 (installed 2015-12-16) [Lookup]

Google Earth Web Plug-in: 5.1 (installed 2017-02-19) [Lookup]

Default Browser: 601 (installed 2017-02-19)

OfficeLiveBrowserPlugin: 12.3.6 (installed 2013-03-14) [Lookup]

Unity Web Player: UnityPlayer version 5.2.0f3 (installed 2015-11-01) [Lookup]

AdobeAAMDetect: 3.0.0.0 (installed 2016-05-11) [Lookup]

FlashPlayer-10.6: 26.0.0.137 (installed 2017-07-12) [Lookup]

AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: 11.0.20 (installed 2017-05-04) [Lookup]

DivXBrowserPlugin: 2.0 (installed 2010-08-25) [Lookup]

QuickTime Plugin: 7.7.3 (installed 2017-05-26)

Flash Player: 26.0.0.137 (installed 2017-07-12) [Lookup]

googletalkbrowserplugin: 5.41.3.0 (installed 2015-12-11) [Lookup]

iPhotoPhotocast: 7.0 (installed 2008-10-31)

AdobePDFViewer: 11.0.20 (installed 2017-04-25) [Lookup]

SharePointBrowserPlugin: 14.7.2 (installed 2017-03-15) [Lookup]

Silverlight: 5.1.41212.0 (installed 2017-02-19) [Lookup]

Becon: Unknown (installed 2013-08-14) [Lookup]

JavaAppletPlugin: Java 8 Update 131 build 11 (installed 2017-04-22) Check version

User internet Plug-ins:ⓘ

fbplugin_1_0_3: Unknown (installed 2017-02-19) [Lookup]

WebEx64: 1.0 (installed 2011-06-10) [Lookup]

CitrixOnlineWebDeploymentPlugin: 1.0.105 (installed 2013-04-26) [Lookup]

Picasa: 1.0 (installed 2014-03-05) [Lookup]

Google Earth Web Plug-in: 7.1 (installed 2017-02-19) [Lookup]

Safari Extensions:ⓘ

[enabled] Norton Security - Symantec Corporation - http://www.norton.com/mac (installed 2017-04-27)

[not loaded] Video Converter - Wondershare - http://www.wondershare.com (installed 2012-12-19)

[enabled] TinEye - TinEye - https://tineye.com (installed 2017-03-08)

Audio Plug-ins:ⓘ

DVCPROHDAudio: 1.3 (installed 2007-04-21)

3rd Party Preference Panes:ⓘ

Flash Player (installed 2017-06-23) [Lookup]

Java (installed 2017-04-22) [Lookup]

Time Machine:ⓘ

Skip System Files: NO

Auto backup: NO - Auto backup turned off

Volumes being backed up:

Macintosh HD: Disk size: 179.05 GB Disk used: 153.46 GB

Destinations:

BA_Backup [Network]

Total size: 0 B

Total number of backups: 0

Oldest backup: -

Last backup: -

Size of backup disk: Too small

Backup size 0 B < (Disk used 153.46 GB X 3)

Before you reacted I already

Top Processes by CPU:ⓘ

8% mds

4% WindowServer

1% mdworker

1% mdworker

1% kernel_task

Top Processes by Memory:ⓘ

557 MB kernel_task

250 MB Safari

128 MB Mail

87 MB mds_stores

78 MB Dropbox

Top Processes by Energy Use:ⓘ

4.26 WindowServer

1.30 TomTom MyDrive Connect

0.72 NFMWps

0.48 netsession_mac

Virtual Memory Information:ⓘ

1.11 GB Available RAM

116 MB Free RAM

2.89 GB Used RAM

1017 MB Cached files

237 MB Swap Used

Software installs:ⓘ

PhotoSketcher: 1.7.1 (installed 2017-06-26)

Adobe Flash Player: (installed 2017-07-11)

Install information may not be complete.

Your main problem seems to be RAM-related, but you don't necessarily have to upgrade the RAM, you could try removing a lot of software you probably don't use much anyway, especially CleanMyMac and the Symantec stuff. See the advice of stevejobsfan0123 in this thread: Re: fix for slow wake up of iMac

Go through all your apps and delete those you don't really need. Some of them may need to be uninstalled through the developer's website.

I advise not having any startup items on login. If you need something, start it yourself. They could be using RAM in the background even if you are not using the app. Go to System Preferences / Users & Groups / Login items and use the - button to remove them all.

Use Safe mode to do an Apple-recommended check and cleanup and then restart as normal.

Hope this helps.🙂

P.S. If you are thinking about upgrading the RAM, consider the cost (including shipping) and that your battery has 1,000 charge cycles chalked up, so that may have to be replaced fairly soon.

Hi, regarding TRIM I'm a novice.... I currently use El Capitan (version 10.11.6) on my old Mac Book Pro (but with SSD). Someone just recommended to enable TRIM on my laptop. Can someone please advise how to proceed ? I understand that some OS's got TRIM on board ? Do I have to install it and what supplier then is recommended ?

Thank you very much in advance from my v-e-r-y- s-l-o-w MacBook......!

Wim

Hi, regarding TRIM I'm a novice.... I currently use El Capitan (version 10.11.6) on my old Mac Book Pro (but with SSD). Someone just recommended to enable TRIM on my laptop. Can someone please advise how to proceed ? I understand that some OS's got TRIM on board ? Do I have to install it and what supplier then is recommended ?

Thank you very much in advance from my v-e-r-y- s-l-o-w MacBook......!

Wim

You don't have to install anything. Here is an OSX Daily article telling how to do it. But be careful in using Terminal.

http://osxdaily.com/2015/10/29/use-trimforce-trim-ssd-mac-os-x/

You say yours is an old Macbook. Can it not run Sierra?

And very slow!! Is that why you want to try TRIM? There could be other reasons for the slowness. If you feel so inclined, run this program http://etrecheck.com/and post the results here. It is a safe program and highly regarded (mostly) on these forums.

Hi,

If you are using Yosemite, Trim Enabler will be consigned to the Incompatible software folder on your hd, even with a non-Apple SSD.

You are right.