davidfromnuneaton

Q: PLEASE HELP - MACHINE SLOW

Ive always been told and read that Apple products (MacBook Pro) are not affected by the normal issues that a say Windos based PC may be.

My MacBook Pro has 68 GB of spare memory out of the 500GB.

I can confirm that I have only ever used the machine to log onto genuine and mainly secure web sites and have only download application from the app store.

My machine at times can be that slow even typing text I have to wait for the curser to catch up.


I have just recently started seeing a bigger issue where iTunes and iPhoto hang up more times than they actually one normally and where I can use and this is really concerning.


Would really appreciate some advice on what action to take.


Thank you

MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)

Posted on Feb 15, 2015 12:19 AM

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  • by Drew Reece,

    Drew Reece Drew Reece Feb 18, 2015 12:17 AM in response to davidfromnuneaton
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    Feb 18, 2015 12:17 AM in response to davidfromnuneaton

    Comprising? Not sure I understand, unless it is a typo for 'repairing'?

    You may still want to check that it is iPhoto doing the leaking, see Linc's command. If there is not many leaks it could be something else that eventually kills iPhoto.

     

    I would consider making a copy of the iPhoto Library onto another disk as a backup. Then look at the repair and rebuild options.

    iPhoto '11: If you see a message that iPhoto can’t access one or more photo files

     

    Have you tried iPhoto in another user account? Make a test one in 'System Preferences > Users & groups' to see if you can open it & add a few images, if it dies delete & reinstall iPhoto & retry.

     

    If it is still failing you may also consider rebooting into recovery mode to repair the disk with Disk Utility. Backup before you begin just in case.

    Boot holding cmd+R. Recovery mode should startup (assuming you have a recovery partition).

    Select Disk Utility in the list of options.

    In Disk Utility select the 'boot disk' this is usually the item above 'Macintosh HD' (or whatever your boot disk is called).

    Select the 'First Aid' tab.

    Note: There are 2 items to repair + the permissions…

    Repair any disk damage that is reported via 'verify'.

    Then select the 'Macintosh HD' & repair the permissions too.

    Permissions repair will report errors, these are normally fine so ignore them.

     

    It's possible database or files within the library is corrupt, in which case you may need to find the original files inside the library & pull them out. Don't worry about that yet - the images should be safe inside the library, just be aware it's a last resort option.

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