iMac 27-inch (late 2012) slow processing and delays
iMac (27-inch, Late 2012)
3.12 Fusion Drive
3.4 GHz Intel Core i7
16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
OS X Yosemite 10.10.3
I am high school teacher and use it for editing photos, video, graphics, websites and blogs.
Started having problems with delay between actions. Started with iTunes acting slow, stopping music or movies. Eventually every time I would open a new window, program or even type something there would be a delay (spinning wheel) for seconds and sometimes up to minutes.
At first I though it was a memory clog. So, I backed up everything on an external G-Drive, dumped old programs (deleted), cleared cache, dumped old files to clear up hard drive space and RAM. I have 1.77 TB remaining out of 3.09 TB. This process took almost 4 days working 24/7 backing up and cleaning up RAM and hard drives.
It still continued to act the same way. So, I did hardware test to see if something was wrong with the RAM cards. The test (short and long) revealed no problems. Said none of the 2 8GB cards had any problems. So, I removed one card and tested. Nothing wrong. Took that card out and put the other one back in and tested. No problems.
Next I put both RAM cards back in and ran a disk repair test. The test revealed no repairs needed.
Next, I reinstalled the OS X Yosemite. After reinstall I restarted and things continued to have the same problem.
I thought, since I’ve wanting to upgrade the memory anyway I would go get to new memory cards. So, now I have 32GB RAM. After restarting I noticed a boost in speed of startup and opening programs. But at last the dreaded rainbow spinning wheel came back like before. In fact, since writing this message in notes I have the spinning wheel come up 27 times for delays of 7 to 20 seconds. Which is way better than before but shouldn’t be happening.
I have searched all over the Apple Support and Apple Support Communities. I have not found anything else I can do. Does anyone know what is wrong? Or does anyone know what I should do next? Thanks!
iMac (27-inch, Late 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)