Is anyone else having the issue of your Mac running wicked slow after the new El Capitan update? Word, Safari, Preview, and iTunes wouldn't open- they froze and I had to force quit them. Even typing this there is a major lag and the pinwheel appears. What's up with that? So far I hate how slow it's making my mac.
Which version of OS X server are you running with ElCap.
Which version of OS X server are you running with ElCap.
OS X El Capitan, version 10.11. Everything on my macbook is up to date
Are you running the server version of OS X. if (as I suspect) you are not why did you post in the OS X Server forum?
When you see a beachball cursor or the slowness is especially bad, note the exact time: hour, minute, second.
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No. In fact I am finding it to be quicker.
Since the public release, It is very slow, at times. It will go off into the ozone for several seconds with pinwheel running and running. It definitely has affected Excel and Word. Hesitation sometimes unbearable.
Slower on boot up and menu takes a while to load after dock is loaded.
El Capitan boots (button to desktop) in 19 seconds for me, and is faster than Yosemite at everything.
Saving files has become a longer-term process.
I have that too. Since the last El Capitan beta (begin October) my mac runs as fast as a one legged donkey. I ran several times the disc utility for first aid. I dropped out of the beta program and installed the non beta El Capitan. No change. Now I am backing up the 350 GB to an external disk (150 hours to go). Then I will reformat that disk and install good old Yosemite. Hopefully that helps.
This is the OS X El Capitan forum page.
Since the install everything is slow and seems to invoke the dreaded spinning beach ball (which I do not like the new look of by the way). I am using a barely 1 year old MacBook Pro and since install of the new OSX it lags on simple things like changing a file name on the desktop. APPLE - fix this!!!! I hope this fix will be apart of the 10.11.1 release.
Apple is not going to fix it.
You are going to have to fix your MBP.
Waiting for an upgrade to the operating system to fix a problem with the computer is a false hope. Usually if the computer has a problem, upgrading the operating system will only make the problems worst.
If you provide us with more detail or download and install EtreCheck from http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck
Run it and post the report here. Maybe that will show us where the problem is with your MBP.
Apple has already announced a fix and is already in a public beta release to resolve these very issues v10.11.1
Downloading a third party software, especially from an unvalidated source, is no answer either... just opening a door to further problems. I'll happily wait the release of the fix.
I tracked down the performance issues as having something to do with external backup drives. Either the Thunderbolt display or something else. Since removing the external backup drives, performance is back up to par. Saving a file as a new file improved some performance aspects. It runs great now most of the time.
El Capitan is slow???
