MAC WARRIOR

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MAC WARRIOR

My imac (27") early 2013, was running very very slow. A friend of mine recommended a program called "Mac Warrior"....any thoughts on this?

macbookpro, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on May 16, 2016 8:38 PM

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Answer 1

John Galt

Level 10

155,828 points

May 16, 2016 11:14 PM in response to debibeane

Installing some magical cure-all never fixes a slow Mac. Describe what is slow, and when.

Back up your Mac if you have not done so already. To learn how to do that read https://www.apple.com/support/backup/. To learn how to use Time Machine read Use Time Machine to back up or restore your Mac.

If your Mac is momentarily unresponsive, consider the following.

Launch the Console app - it is in your Utilities folder. You can find it by selecting Utilities from the Finder's Go menu.

If the log list column on the left is not already displayed, show the log list by selecting Show Log List from Console's View menu. Select Show Toolbar if it is not already shown.

Locate system.log in the list and select it. Many date and time-stamped entries will appear, hundreds of them, and you must find the entries relevant to your Mac's problem.

To do that click the Clear Display button in the Toolbar. All previously displayed log entries will be disappear.

Next: Perform whatever actions cause the Mac to exhibit the slow behavior. If the problem is caused by errors logged by the system, the Console window will show them being recorded in system.log.

One or more of them, along with their time stamps, may reveal the reason for the problem you describe.

Copy and paste those log entries in a reply. If hundreds of the same repetitive messages appear, please edit them before posting. There should be no need for more than a few log entries.

Most of the entries will be cryptic but will contain information you might consider personal such as your Mac's name. If you do not want that information to appear, delete or obscure it when posting your reply. Leave enough information so that the entries can be deciphered.

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Answer 2

debibeane Author

Level 1

4 points

May 22, 2016 4:04 PM in response to Ferd II

EtreCheck version: 2.9.12 (265)

Report generated 2016-05-22 18:02:46

Download EtreCheck from https://etrecheck.com

Runtime 3:34

Performance: Good

Click the [Support] links for help with non-Apple products.

Click the [Details] links for more information about that line.

Problem: Computer is too slow

Hardware Information: ⓘ

iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2011)

[Technical Specifications] - [User Guide] - [Warranty & Service]

iMac - model: iMac12,1

1 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 4-core

4 GB RAM Upgradeable - [Instructions]

BANK 0/DIMM0

2 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok

BANK 1/DIMM0

2 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok

BANK 0/DIMM1

Empty

BANK 1/DIMM1

Empty

Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported

Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n

Video Information: ⓘ

AMD Radeon HD 6750M - VRAM: 512 MB

iMac 1920 x 1080

System Software: ⓘ

OS X El Capitan 10.11.5 (15F34) - Time since boot: about 5 days

Disk Information: ⓘ

WDC WD5000AAKS-402AA0 disk0 : (500.11 GB) (Rotational)

EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB

Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB

Macintosh HD (disk1) / : 498.88 GB (143.65 GB free)

Encrypted AES-XTS Unlocked

Core Storage: disk0s2 499.25 GB Online

HL-DT-STDVDRW GA32N ()

USB Information: ⓘ

Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)

Generic USB Storage

PixArt USB Optical Mouse

Apple Inc. BRCM2046 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

M Audio MobilePre

Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver

Apple Card Reader

Thunderbolt Information: ⓘ

Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus

Configuration files: ⓘ

/etc/sudoers, File size 1242 but expected 2299

Gatekeeper: ⓘ

Anywhere

Kernel Extensions: ⓘ

/Library/Extensions

[loaded] com.visicom.ManyCam.VideoDevice.driver (3.2.6 - SDK 10.7 - 2016-05-17) [Support]

[not loaded] foo.tap (20111101 - 2016-05-17) [Support]

[not loaded] foo.tun (20111101 - 2016-05-17) [Support]

/System/Library/Extensions

[not loaded] com.Creative.driver.SBUSBAudioDriver (1.0.5 - SDK 10.9 - 2016-05-17) [Support]

[not loaded] com.Creative.driver.TruStudioPCUSBAudioPlugin (2.3.30 - SDK 10.8 - 2016-05-17) [Support]

[not loaded] com.ScreamingBee.driver.SBVirtualMic (1.0.4 - SDK 10.8 - 2016-05-17) [Support]

System Launch Agents: ⓘ

[not loaded] 8 Apple tasks

[loaded] 145 Apple tasks

[running] 59 Apple tasks

[killed] 26 Apple tasks

26 processes killed due to insufficient RAM

System Launch Daemons: ⓘ

[not loaded] 47 Apple tasks

[loaded] 147 Apple tasks

[running] 78 Apple tasks

[killed] 18 Apple tasks

18 processes killed due to insufficient RAM

Launch Daemons: ⓘ

[loaded] com.cyberghostsrl.CyberghostPrivilegedHelper.plist (2016-05-07) [Support]

[running] com.malwarebytes.MBAMHelperTool.plist (2016-05-19) [Support]

User Launch Agents: ⓘ

[not loaded] com.iobit.MacBoosterMini.plist (2016-05-19) [Support]

Other Apps: ⓘ

[loaded] com.google.Chrome.19552

[loaded] com.google.Chrome.47392

[running] com.iobit.AMCDaemon

[running] com.skype.skype.106912

[running] jp.co.canon.cijscannerregister.78112

[running] net.sourceforge.audacity.119712

[loaded] 423 Apple tasks

[running] 169 Apple tasks

[killed] 56 Apple tasks

Internet Plug-ins: ⓘ

Default Browser: 601 - SDK 10.11 (2016-05-17)

QuickTime Plugin: 7.7.3 (2016-05-17)

Safari Extensions: ⓘ

AdBlock - BetaFish, Inc. - https://getadblock.com (2016-01-05)

Avast Online Security - AVAST Software - http://www.avast.com (2016-02-04)

LastPass - LastPass - http://lastpass.com (2013-08-21)

3rd Party Preference Panes: ⓘ

None

Time Machine: ⓘ

Time Machine not configured!

Top Processes by CPU: ⓘ

17% AddressBookSourceSync

7% com.apple.iCloudHelper

5% accountsd

3% WindowServer

3% securityd_service

Top Processes by Memory: ⓘ

999 MB Google Chrome Helper(8)

870 MB kernel_task

147 MB Google Chrome

143 MB mdworker(9)

86 MB Skype

Virtual Memory Information: ⓘ

73 MB Free RAM

3.92 GB Used RAM (623 MB Cached)

452 MB Swap Used

Diagnostics Information: ⓘ

May 22, 2016, 01:13:51 AM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Audacity_2016-05-22-011351_[redacted].hang

/Applications/Audacity/Audacity.app/Contents/MacOS/Audacity

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Answer 3

Ferd II

Level 10

104,871 points

May 16, 2016 8:50 PM in response to debibeane

Debi,

Without knowing further details about your computer, I would definitively say NO.

I would suggest that you download and install EtreCheck, and post the results in this thread.

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Answer 4

Kurt Lang

Level 9

68,726 points

May 17, 2016 11:12 AM in response to debibeane

They meant DiskWarrior. However, that will not help a slow Mac at all.

Disk Warrior has two functions. One is to check for errors in the file table or the drive you choose and fix them. Something you rarely, if ever have to do to begin with. The other is Salvage mode. If you've deleted files, or have a severely corrupted drive, DiskWarrior usually succeeds in recovering some of this data where other utilities fail. You would use that one even less.

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Answer 5

BobHarris

Level 9

56,945 points

May 22, 2016 4:54 PM in response to debibeane

RAM would help. You should be able to go as high as 16GB of RAM. The 4GB you currently have is a minimum, but not if you are going to use resource intensive apps, such as Chrome. Chrome is taking a quarter of your RAM as it is.

Suggest removing

[not loaded] com.iobit.MacBoosterMini.plist (2016-05-19) [Support]

Suggest removing

Avast Online Security - AVAST Software - http://www.avast.com (2016-02-04)

[running] com.skype.skype.106912

running in the background, can act as a bridge for other Skype users, consuming some of your network bandwidth. If you are having network bandwidth issues, use Applications -> Utilities -> Activity Monitor to see if Skype is consuming your network bandwidth. If not, then not an issue.

AddressBookSourceSync

seems to be consuming a considerable amount of CPU. Doing a Google search on 'AddressBookSourceSync' seems to turn up a lot of hits where AddressBookSourceSync is consuming resources. I suggest you explore some of the Google hits.

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