Slow responses and continuing beach balling after upgrade to 10.11.5

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A couple of things to try:

SMC Reset: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295

Safe Boot: Shut down your computer, restart holding the shift key, release after the progress bar appears and allow to finish booting. (Note that this will longer than usual)

Login, then log out, then try rebooting normally. (this will take longer than normal as well) It will repair directories as well as other things.

You can also try reindexing spotlight: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716 (Allow this to finish as it may take some time)

If still no joy, please download and run the following: https://etrecheck.com/#about It is both safe and a very useful tool that has been used for thousands of users. (By the way it's free, safe and will help anyone looking at your post to be able to help you, as it provides the info that you have not posted)

Hope this will help you.

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

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