![]() If you find you are having that "quirky" behavior here is a protocol you can use:Ī Troubleshooting Protocol to Identify Problems or Fix macOS El Capitan or Later Lastly, restore your data which you can comb through at the time and leave behind what you decide you don't need or off-load it to a dedicated storage device. ![]() Carefully restore any third-party software from their original distribution media. Then erase the drive and install a fresh copy of macOS. Once a year you should back up your startup drive, preferably a bootable backup instead of a Time Machine backup. Replacing the directory does improve search times but not by a great deal. Otherwise, macOS auto-defrags on the fly.ĭisk Warrior is a great tool to use if Disk Utility cannot repair certain disk problems. Given that most machines now use SSDs or Fusion Drives and that HDDs are much faster there is usually no need to defrag unless you have a drive full of very large files that you edit frequently. TechTool doesn’t find any computer hardware issues when I run it. Sluggishness pre-dated the acquisition of CleanMyMac X. I have also done a MalwareBytes scan for viruses (came up clean). So what tests and clean-up activities can I undertake to prepare for this software move? Are there any utilities I can invoke which will help in this cleanup? I currently have TechTool Pro and CleanMyMac X, but of course only run them when I want to do something. Given that much of this sluggishness might be due to some software factors, and that I would like to simply copy my apps and data to the new machine when I get it, I would like to track down any software issues before then. ![]() I also recently de-fragged my 1TB hard drive, and it’s now less than half full. My current iMac is continually displaying signs of sluggishness, with frequent appearances of the “spinning beachball of death”, in spite of it having lots of RAM (12GB), lots of free disk space, and the best processor I could buy in 2011 (i7 quad core). *Aphids are NOTORIOUS PESTS for Apple orchards!Ĭlean-up of sluggish iMac? I have a 2011 iMac which I am planning to replace with the new iMac when it comes out this year. And ALL they generally amount to are nanoseconds and KILObytes!Īny thoughts, opinions, or otherwise on keeping my MBP 'aphid'* free are welcome. History and cache take up space but save time. Insofar as cache and history, i waiver between moving quickly through a lot, or moving slowly through a little. System junk/trash for example, that is NOT in the Trash, and cannot be FOUND to be put there. CMM DID find a get rid of a few GB of stuff that i didn't even know were there. I saw a post and comments on a different Mac 'cleaner' that were NOT very supportive. I have upgraded to a 1T SSD drive, and recently to 16G of RAM.Īll save one of anyone i talk to in my mac community say immediately, before seeing or anything, that 'your mac need cleaning out'. It is all i have and can afford to continue doing graphics with Adobe Creative software. CleanMyMac reviews I limp along on a 2012 MacBook Pro.
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