Powermac sloow....

Create a new user account. Is it slow there too?

 

Okay, well that's promising. General slowness is a pretty difficult problem to remedy until we can work out what's causing this. I wouldn't bother with a reinstall just yet because we don't know for sure if it'll help and you might lose data, settings or whatever.

• Do you have plenty of free space on the internal boot drive?
• Do you have any third party peripherals installed?
• What apps are you running?
• Do you notice the slowdown correlates with anything you do or change?
• If you open Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder, is there any process that's using up a lot of your resources (CPU and RAM)?
• Still in Activity Monitor, do you have plenty of Free RAM + Inactive RAM?
• If you restart your machine and then check Activity Monitor in an hour, how many page ins and page outs do you have?

That's really all I can think of for now. Sorry for all the questions but hopefully something in there will help us work out the source of your problem.

 

MJ is probably right....oh...and don't forget to drag com.apple.finder.plist to the Trash and restart.... It may help...

Yes, I said that just to annoy MJ. He loves to say that...

 

Nah, that definitely won't work. Drag com.apple.imacintel.plist to the Trash instead.

 

com.apple.whythehellismadjewnicetoeveryoneexceptme.plist

 

Try what I said...

 

20GB would have been fine. Erasing the free space won't help and will just waste a bit of time.

Excellent. That's not the problem then.

That seems fine, even if you were running Folding@Home.

That's normal.

That's plenty.

Okay, verify your hard drive in Disk Utility. I don't mean verify the hard drive's permissions though, I mean actually verify the hard drive. It's quite easy to do, but it'll take a little while and may freeze up your system momentarily.

Also, does it speed up if you disconnect from your network?



*Pats imacintel on the head*

There there.

 

Thank you, lol.

t'would be nice if my ask for your iBook went through...but sadly enough, it didn't.

 

Yeah, but I'm still using her!

 

I think it may be your Hard Drive. Try Drive Genius to fix permission on disk and optimize it.

 

onyx

Use it, love it.

 

Dunno that I can help you on that one mate, sorry. Just for fun, I'd check the connection to the drive to make sure it's not slightly loose. Also, if you have a good backup then reformatting it in Disk Utility might help. Is this your only internal drive? Is it your boot drive?

 

It's not really worth it to prove to them to give you a brand new hard drive. Apple Hard Drive as a matter of fact it's slower then today Seagate. Apple Hard Drive speed are only average. Unless your is 500GB+ it's a lot better to backup all your data and buy a newer and bigger Hard Drive that is faster then Apple. Newegg 320GB Seagate is less then $100 and is faster then Apple one.

 

Are you getting any beach balls?

 

pianodude123,

Try this. Your Hard Drive may have permission problem or directory error causing it to slow down. Put in your Mac OS X install CD that come with your Computer. Press "C" to boot from CD. Select "Ultility" from menu and choose Disk Ulitility. Do a Permission Repair and Repair Disk. I did this on mine and notice my Hard Drive respond a lot faster now. My drive have a minor directory error that I don't even know and it fix it for me.

Goodluck!

 

yesterday someone told me to snap the app called "Main Menu" - personally i like it better than anything else i've ever used. (onyx, janitor, cocktail)