my iMac has slowed down considerably. could you please advise easiest and best solution to de frag the hard drive.
Your HD does not need to be defrayed. That was something done in the 1990's however contemporary HD's and operating systems have made that step obsolete. Perhaps you can tell us:
Many thanks
I have El capitan and accessing files and folders takes longer . I have a 1 gB hard drive 2 thirds full and 32GB ram
Leonardi1958 wrote:
Many thanks
I have El capitan and accessing files and folders takes longer . I have a 1 gB hard drive 2 thirds full and 32GB ram
Okay, please post an EtreCheck report of your system and we can look for obvious issues. Click the link, download and install the app and run the report. Then copy and past the complete results into your reply to this message. If you want to learn what EtreCheck is, click the link for info.
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 one 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.
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Thank you so much . All good
Sam
