MacMini mid2011 slugish yosemite after a some time of use
Hello to everyone
I´ve been reading lots of post but it seems I cant find any solution to my particular problem.
I have a Mac Mini mid2011 with an i5 and it has 8gb of RAM. A few months ago I´ve made the move to Yosemite making a fresh new install (I´ve made a format and installed it). The OS worked perfectly but after a few months it started to became sluggish at the point its turning unusable. The system has only the Adobe CS6 suite installed, chrome and spotify, since those are the only programs I use for work. Everything worked fine till some time ago that everything started to become slow. Everytime I try to open a folder the spinning wheel shows and takes a while, the same if I click on any tool in any adobe program or if I try to see the preview of an image. The disk has about 200gb free, I´ve not installed nothing rare or suspicious since I only use those programs. So I cant understand why this is happening since the programs worked fine, nothing changed but now they are unusable, the same to the whole OS. I´ve been reading the activity monitor and the CPU usage rarely goes up the 10% and I always have some free ram.
I´ve tried updating to 10.10.3 but nothing changed, I´ve cleared the SMC, repaired permitions and runned a test on the disk to search for errors, nothing helped neither.
Please if someone know the solution I´ll be eternally gratefull. At the end of the post Im attahcing the Etrecheck information of my computer.
I know that probably formatting the computer would be the solution but since im using it to work It would be perfect if I could fix it without formatting.
Thanks a lot in advanced
PS: I know the host file has some entries, they are ok, I´ve made them and they are there since the first or second boot, so thats not the proble, since the sluggishness came much after. Also I´ve installed thesmooth mouse app, but its the same, since its been a lot since the app was installed and the problem came much after that.
Here is what the Etrecheck delivered:
EtreCheck version: 2.2 (132)
Report generated 5/25/15, 6:10 PM
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Hardware Information: ℹ️
Mac mini (Mid 2011) (Technical Specifications)
Mac mini - model: Macmini5,1
1 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2-core
8 GB RAM Upgradeable
BANK 0/DIMM0
4 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
BANK 1/DIMM0
4 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported
Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
Video Information: ℹ️
Intel HD Graphics 3000
VA1931 Series 1366 x 768 @ 60 Hz
System Software: ℹ️
OS X 10.10.3 (14D136) - Time since boot: 7:59:50
Disk Information: ℹ️
TOSHIBA MK5065GSXF disk0 : (500,11 GB)
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / : 499.25 GB (254.24 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
USB Information: ℹ️
Apple, Inc. Keyboard Hub
Microsoft Microsoft® 2.4GHz Transceiver v4.0
Apple Inc. Apple Keyboard
Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Thunderbolt Information: ℹ️
Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Configuration files: ℹ️
/etc/hosts - Count: 20
Gatekeeper: ℹ️
Mac App Store and identified developers
Kernel Extensions: ℹ️
/Library/Extensions
[loaded] com.cyberic.SmoothMouse (9 - SDK 10.8) [Click for support]
Launch Agents: ℹ️
[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist [Click for support]
Launch Daemons: ℹ️
[loaded] com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist [Click for support]
[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist [Click for support]
User Launch Agents: ℹ️
[loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist [Click for support]
[loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist [Click for support]
[loaded] com.bittorrent.uTorrent.plist [Click for support]
[running] com.cyberic.smoothmouse.plist [Click for support]
[loaded] com.cyberic.smoothmouseupdater.plist [Click for support]
[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist [Click for support]
[running] com.spotify.webhelper.plist [Click for support]
User Login Items: ℹ️
BambooCore UNKNOWN (missing value)
Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.0.0 [Click for support]
AdobePDFViewer: Version: 10.0.0 [Click for support]
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
JavaAppletPlugin: Version: 15.0.0 - SDK 10.10 Check version
AdobeAAMDetect: Version: AdobeAAMDetect 1.0.0.0 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]
Default Browser: Version: 600 - SDK 10.10
3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️
SmoothMouse [Click for support]
Time Machine: ℹ️
Time Machine not configured!
Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️
4% WindowServer
1% taskgated
0% SmoothMouseDaemon
0% launchd
0% fontd
Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️
612 MB kernel_task
188 MB Google Chrome
123 MB Google Chrome Helper(2)
115 MB Finder
74 MB WindowServer
Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️
3.52 GB Free RAM
4.48 GB Used RAM
0 B Swap Used
Diagnostics Information: ℹ️
May 25, 2015, 10:09:48 AM Self test - passed
May 23, 2015, 12:35:22 PM /Users/[redacted]/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/garcon_2015-05-23-123522_[reda cted].crash
May 23, 2015, 12:34:08 PM /Users/[redacted]/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/garcon_2015-05-23-123408_[reda cted].crash
May 23, 2015, 12:32:53 PM /Users/[redacted]/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/garcon_2015-05-23-123253_[reda cted].crash
May 23, 2015, 12:26:28 PM /Users/[redacted]/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/garcon_2015-05-23-122628_[reda cted].crash
May 23, 2015, 12:23:03 PM /Users/[redacted]/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/garcon_2015-05-23-122303_[reda cted].crash
Mac mini, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)