Recently virtually all internal functions on the Mac mini have slowed down--the beach ball is ubiquitous. I know of no known changes made, My internet DL/UL speed is good. I ran CleanmyMac and deleted all the junk, but it made no difference.
Here are snapshots of my Activity Monitor. I'm not a hi tech guy. Any and all suggestions would be welcome.
Mac mini, OS X Yosemite (10.10)
Looking at your latest etrecheck list:
1. remove all entries in SystemPreferences->Users&Groups->éLoginItems, with the minus sign under the list.
Then restart the mac: uninstalling software when it is running is mostly incomplete.
2. If you are are heavy user of Dropbox, you can put it in the LoginItmes again.
The rest stays out. Then, before anything else:
3. there is a s**t leftover from MacPaw CleanMyMac (because it was running when you uninstalled it).
In Finder, select the Homefolder (yourname) on the left,
then select the GO menu and hold the Alt(option) key,
select Library,
in Library open the LaunchAgents folder,
delete the ....macpaw.CleanMyMac....plist.
Then restart again.
that should do it.
If you feel uncertain, make a new etrecheck list afterwards and post it
btw: you are not old, not at all.
Barry Glasgal wrote:
I ran CleanmyMac and deleted all the junk, ...
Including itself?
I am being only partly facetious. To uninstall "CleanMyMac" requires that you use it to uninstall itself.
Depending on what you did with it, uninstalling it may not be sufficient to undo the damage it is capable of inflicting on a Mac. Any Mac that has ever been affected by such "cleaning" products will no longer be reliable, until it is completely erased and reconfigured from the ground up. You have some work ahead of you.
I clicked on the SMART Report and Nothing happened. How do I read and interpret it?
Appreciate your assistance. I am getting input from two others as you may have seen. I haven't detected any contradictory advice. You all recommend removal of the AV software which I did--- all four---but the performance still shows as below average on the EtreCheck report. As you may have read I am 79 years old but I am willing to have a go at it if you will still give me guidance. Thanks again.
I finally got a SMART Report
smartctl 6.5 2016-05-07 r4318 [Darwin 14.5.0 x86_64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Hitachi/HGST Travelstar Z5K500
Device Model: APPLE HDD HTS545050A7E362
Serial Number: TES51949HD62BC
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000cca 73ad3a2c4
Firmware Version: GG2AB980
User Capacity: 500,107,862,016 bytes [500 GB]
Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate: 5400 rpm
Form Factor: 2.5 inches
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 6
SATA Version is: SATA 2.6, 3.0 Gb/s
Local Time is: Fri Sep 1 12:49:32 2017 EDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 45) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
No Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 112) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x003d) SCT Status supported.
SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 062 Pre-fail Always - 0
2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 100 100 040 Pre-fail Offline - 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 214 214 033 Pre-fail Always - 1
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0012 094 094 000 Old_age Always - 10124
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 005 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 067 Pre-fail Always - 0
8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0005 100 100 040 Pre-fail Offline - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 084 084 000 Old_age Always - 7015
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 060 Pre-fail Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 094 094 000 Old_age Always - 10123
160 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
191 G-Sense_Error_Rate 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 4294967325
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 071 071 000 Old_age Always - 296594
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0002 187 187 000 Old_age Always - 32 (Min/Max 14/43)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0008 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x000a 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
223 Load_Retry_Count 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
254 Free_Fall_Sensor 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 11
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 164 -
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
Thanks for your involvement. I'm 79 years old and could use some guidance in dealing with the slow performance in addition to uninstalling CleanMyMac. Will you help?
Please see my last post for uninstall instructions for Symantec, Trusteer Rapport, and CleanMy Mac.
Everything has slowed down
