Late 2012 27 inch IMac slow after upgrading to El Capitan

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Hello,Upgraded to El Capitan a few weeks ago so that I would be able to use the newer suites of Adobe products.  After updating the computer became incredibly slow.  Launching my editing software would take 3-5 min as opposed to the 10-20 seconds prior.  Safari would eve throw up the beach ball of death now and then.  Loading pages was slow, opening folders in Finder was taking 20 - 30 seconds.  Just a kind of across the board slowdown.Figured I would update the ram and see if that made a difference.  Recently switched to editing 4k footage so even if ram wasn&#x27;t the problem, it wouldn&#x27;t hurt me to have more ram anyways.  Now have 32gigs of ram, and most of the problems persist.  Looked on here and saw step one was the EtreCheck so I went ahead and did that.  If this ends up being a hardware problem, I will be kind of surprised due to the timing with the upgrade, then again, sometimes stuff just happens.Thanks in advance for any assistance.EtreCheck version: 2.9.12 (265)Report generated 2016-05-04 21:47:05Download EtreCheck from https://etrecheck.comRuntime 8:00Performance: Below AverageClick the [Support] links for help with non-Apple products.Click the [Details] links for more information about that line.Problem: Computer is too slowHardware Information:ⓘ    iMac (27-inch, Late 2012)     [Technical Specifications] - [User Guide] - [Warranty &amp; Service]    iMac - model: iMac13,2    1 3.2 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 4-core    32 GB RAM Upgradeable - [Instructions]        BANK 0/DIMM0            8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok        BANK 1/DIMM0            8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok        BANK 0/DIMM1            8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok        BANK 1/DIMM1            8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok    Bluetooth: Good - Handoff/Airdrop2 supported    Wireless:  en1: 802.11 a/b/g/nVideo Information:ⓘ    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX - VRAM: 1024 MB        iMac 2560 x 1440System Software:ⓘ    OS X El Capitan 10.11.3 (15D21) - Time since boot: less than an hourDisk Information:ⓘ    APPLE HDD WDC WD10EALX-408EA0 disk0 : (1 TB) (Rotational)        EFI (disk0s1) &lt;not mounted&gt; : 210 MB         Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / : 999.35 GB (316.70 GB free)        Recovery HD (disk0s3) &lt;not mounted&gt;  [Recovery]: 650 MB USB Information:ⓘ    Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub         Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller     Apple, Inc. Keyboard Hub         Apple Inc. Apple Keyboard     Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in) Thunderbolt Information:ⓘ    Apple Inc. thunderbolt_busGatekeeper:ⓘ    Mac App Store and identified developersKernel Extensions:ⓘ        /Applications/MacX Video Converter Pro.app    [not loaded]    com.digiarty.driver.goodSysAudioCapture (1.0 - SDK 10.8 - 2013-08-19) [Support]System Launch Agents:ⓘ    [not loaded]    5 Apple tasks    [loaded]    163 Apple tasks    [running]    68 Apple tasksSystem Launch Daemons:ⓘ    [not loaded]    46 Apple tasks    [loaded]    157 Apple tasks    [running]    84 Apple tasksLaunch Agents:ⓘ    [not loaded]    com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist (2016-04-12) [Support]    [running]    com.adobe.AdobeCreativeCloud.plist (2016-03-10) [Support]    [running]    com.epson.eventmanager.agent.plist (2012-05-08) [Support]    [loaded]    com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist (2013-09-13) [Support]Launch Daemons:ⓘ    [loaded]    com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist (2013-02-19) [Support]    [running]    com.adobe.adobeupdatedaemon.plist (2016-04-12) [Support]    [loaded]    com.adobe.agsservice.plist (2016-03-10) [Support]    [loaded]    com.adobe.fpsaud.plist (2016-04-04) [Support]    [loaded]    com.apple.aelwriter.plist    [running]    com.apple.qmaster.qmasterd.plist    [loaded]    com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist (2013-09-13) [Support]    [loaded]    com.oracle.java.JavaUpdateHelper.plist (2014-04-24) [Support]User Launch Agents:ⓘ    [loaded]    com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist (2013-02-19) [Support]    [loaded]    com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist (2013-03-11) [Support]    [loaded]    com.google.keystone.agent.plist (2016-03-01) [Support]    [loaded]    com.valvesoftware.steamclean.plist (2016-04-27) [Support]User Login Items:ⓘ    Steam    Application  (/Applications/Steam.app)    iTunesHelper    Application  (/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app)    Android File Transfer Agent    Application  (~/Library/Application Support/Google/Android File Transfer/Android File Transfer Agent.app)Other Apps:ⓘ    [running]    com.adobe.CCXProcess.152672    [running]    com.adobe.acc.AdobeDesktopService.95712.7A85A81A-E699-43A6-B000-AD079ECFAD89    [running]    com.adobe.accmac.149792    [running]    com.google.android.mtpagent.86432    [running]    com.valvesoftware.steam.ipctool    [loaded]    404 Apple tasks    [running]    179 Apple tasksInternet Plug-ins:ⓘ    AdobeAAMDetect: 3.0.0.0 - SDK 10.9 (2016-04-12) [Support]    FlashPlayer-10.6: 21.0.0.213 - SDK 10.6 (2016-04-08) [Support]    QuickTime Plugin: 7.7.3 (2016-01-13)    AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: 10.1.14 (2015-07-04) [Support]    AdobePDFViewer: 10.1.14 (2015-07-04) [Support]    Flash Player: 21.0.0.213 - SDK 10.6 (2016-04-08) Outdated! Update    Default Browser: 601 - SDK 10.11 (2016-01-13)    Flip4Mac WMV Plugin: 3.2.0.16   - SDK 10.8 (2014-01-17) [Support]    Silverlight: 5.1.41212.0 - SDK 10.6 (2016-02-20) [Support]    JavaAppletPlugin: Java 8 Update 25 (2014-12-04) Check versionAudio Plug-ins:ⓘ    DVCPROHDAudio: 1.3.2 (2013-03-14)3rd Party Preference Panes:ⓘ    Flash Player (2016-04-04) [Support]    Flip4Mac WMV (2013-03-29) [Support]    Java (2014-12-04) [Support]Time Machine:ⓘ    Time Machine not configured!Top Processes by CPU:ⓘ         7%    kernel_task         7%    WindowServer         6%    com.apple.WebKit.WebContent         4%    codesign         2%    SafariTop Processes by Memory:ⓘ    1.46 GB    kernel_task    295 MB    com.apple.WebKit.WebContent    197 MB    mds_stores    131 MB    softwareupdated    131 MB    Adobe CEF Helper(3)Virtual Memory Information:ⓘ    22.00 GB    Free RAM     9.71 GB    Used RAM (7.91 GB Cached)    0 B    Swap Used Diagnostics Information:ⓘ    May 4, 2016, 09:27:57 PM    Self test - passed

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Looked on here and saw step one was the EtreCheckNo, that&#x27;s not step one. Step one is to back up all data immediately if you don&#x27;t already have a current backup, because the startup drive may be failing. After you&#x27;ve done that, please see below.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&#x27;t, select          SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messagesfrom the log list on the left. If you don&#x27;t see that list, select          View ▹ Show Log Listfrom 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&#x27;t indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.Please don&#x27;t post screenshots of log messages—post the text.Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.When you post the log extract, you might see an error message on the web page: "You have included content in your post that is not permitted," or "The message contains invalid characters." That&#x27;s a bug in the forum software. Please post the text on Pastebin, then post a link here to the page you created.If you have an account on Pastebin, please don&#x27;t select Private from the Paste Exposure menu on the page, because then no one but you will be able to see it.