Guitamo
Oct 14, 2016 2:44 PM Re: macOS Sierra is a real dog - too many problems.in response to dialabrain
OK. That may be the case, but how do I ferret out which programs are "incompatible" after Sierra is installed? I don't remember any notification from the OS that there were "Sierra incompatible" programs installed. How do I know which are incompatible? As I said, even native OS programs hang & fail, like something as basic and integral to the OS as "Finder".
If I can add to this discussion again - I'm the original poster...
After much frustration, the system seems to be running ok now. I am still in the "Do I trust this thing" mode, but there you go.
What did I do to get it back into a working state? Nothing other than reinstall the latest Microsoft Office packages, from their "Latest Software" support update option.
I did that, rebooted the system any number of times over about three days, then left it alone for a week while I went away on business. I came back and after a few updates, it seems to be behaving itself.
I did NOT do anything so silly as a complete wipe and reinstall. I have a web server and mail server running here, with a lot of software hand built running with it for security and so on. Mostly mail related.
I do have Wine available, and can still run Quake III - Impressive! ... Also WoW.
Photoshop, and Lightroom, and any number of other programs that are needed.
Any that were incompatible came up and told me so, and in all but one case, went away and upgraded themselves.
I have NO IDEA what caused the printers to disappear, but now they are all back and working fine.
Etrecheck told me nothing I didn't already know. A bit of a clean up of a couple of oddities got rid of them, but they weren't system threats anyway.
So what can I suggest? Assuming you have plenty of RAM and HDD space in anycase, completly shutdown - power off - your machine, leave it sit for an hour, then start it up again.
If it starts up ok, just leave it sit there for a week, and don't let it go to sleep. I should then sort itself out :-)
The only things I can think of is that
1. It will spend hours and hours processing all of your photos and videos, sucking up masses of CPU time if you have lots of photos. I do.
2. It will start trying to move everything to the cloud if you enabled that option at install time. Make sure you have plenty of Cloud space. Mine is still doing it weeks later - I have a lot of stuff to move up there and a pathetic connection. You may not have much, and you may have a better connection. You can control that from About This Mac -> Storage -> Manage
Because it handles storage differently now, things like Finder and loading documents can now take longer because it's dealing with the Cloud storage.
I'm leaning in the direction of storage being a main slow down factor, because I also do have a new iMac, with 16GB RAM and 1TB storage, Fusion Drive etc. The latest model, but it has virtually nothing on it but Word documents, and plenty of Cloud storage, and Sierra installed on that and ran with no issues apart from one early issue with Word. Upgraded that, and it's been fine ever since.
So, hope that helps a little.
Do't try and fix it, just reboot, and let it settle for a few days. You may find as I did, that it sorts itself out.???
I'll be interested to see how you get on.
Robert