mishellfromreno
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Q: my iMac is so slow and bogged down..how can i clear our my cache and cookies?

My iMac Yosemite 10.10.2 is so slow and bogged down, I am not sure if clearing out cache and cookies would help but If someone could clarify how to, that would be awesome!

iMac, OSX Yosemite 10.10.2

Posted on Jun 3, 2015 1:38 PM

by Linc Davis,Apple recommended
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Please follow the instructions linked below and post what you find:

 

Apps can affect Mac performance, battery runtime, temperature, and fan activity - Apple Support

Posted on Jun 3, 2015 5:58 PM

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Q: my iMac is so slow and bogged down..how can i clear our my cache and cookies?

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  • by Kappy,

    Kappy Kappy Jun 3, 2015 1:41 PM in response to mishellfromreno
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    Jun 3, 2015 1:41 PM in response to mishellfromreno

    By "cache and cookies" you are referring to your browser, not the computer itself. Please be clear about the problem providing adequate detail for us to understand your problem.

  • by rkaufmann87,

    rkaufmann87 rkaufmann87 Jun 3, 2015 1:47 PM in response to mishellfromreno
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    Jun 3, 2015 1:47 PM in response to mishellfromreno

    I would recommend that you post an EtreCheck report of your system to see if there are obvious causes to the problems you describe. You can get EtreCheck by clicking http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck

     

    The most common cause we see if users have installed antivirus, cleaning, or other third party maintenance utilities. Each of these are 100% unnecessary and many tend to create more problems than they solve. If you have installed any of these, start by following the developers instructions to uninstall and then uninstall them and test your system.

  • by Linc Davis,

    Linc Davis Linc Davis Jun 3, 2015 2:20 PM in response to mishellfromreno
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    Jun 3, 2015 2:20 PM in response to mishellfromreno

    When you see a beachball cursor or the slowness is especially bad, note the exact time: hour, minute, second.  

    These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.

    Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:

    ☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)

    ☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.

    ☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.

    The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select

              SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages

    from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select

              View ▹ Show Log List

    from the menu bar at the top of the screen.

    Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Scroll back to the time you noted above.

    Select the messages entered from then until the end of the episode, or until they start to repeat, whichever comes first.

    Copy the messages to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.

    The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of it useless for solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.

    Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.

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  • by mishellfromreno,

    mishellfromreno mishellfromreno Jun 3, 2015 5:14 PM in response to Kappy
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    Jun 3, 2015 5:14 PM in response to Kappy

    I should not have assumed I needed to clear cache and cookies, someone told me that might help.  my iMac is essentially unusable, the beachball appears and takes several minutes to move from one action to the next...this computer is 5 years old and out of warranty so i'm hoping it can be salvaged..

  • by mishellfromreno,

    mishellfromreno mishellfromreno Jun 3, 2015 5:15 PM in response to Linc Davis
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    Jun 3, 2015 5:15 PM in response to Linc Davis

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    6/3/15 4:48:09.561 PM discoveryd[49]: Basic DeviceInformation Memory Pressure Warning sent: pressure

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    6/3/15 5:10:01.285 PM discoveryd[49]: Basic DNSResolver  Error 9 on socket - this might be a closed socket

    6/3/15 5:11:47.335 PM discoveryd[49]: Basic Sockets SetDelegatePID() failed for PID[932] errno[3] result[-1]

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  • by Linc Davis,Apple recommended

    Linc Davis Linc Davis Jun 3, 2015 5:58 PM in response to mishellfromreno
    Level 10 (208,044 points)
    Applications
    Jun 3, 2015 5:58 PM in response to mishellfromreno

    Please follow the instructions linked below and post what you find:

     

    Apps can affect Mac performance, battery runtime, temperature, and fan activity - Apple Support

  • by fernandoSD,

    fernandoSD fernandoSD Jun 3, 2015 10:40 PM in response to mishellfromreno
    Level 1 (0 points)
    Jun 3, 2015 10:40 PM in response to mishellfromreno

    something that has really helped me out when i feel that my imac is kinda of slow, its clearing the calendar cache

    just go to finder>Go (press option)> Library. then go to the calendar folder and delete the calendar cache but remember to do a backup of your calendars first! hope this helps.