Hi everyone!
I have a pretty strange situation and hoping someone can help before I cry (LOL jk)
For the past few days I have been transferring files from all my external drives (I have 4) and placing them on a new 5TB External HD for a backup.
I checked on the iMac this morning and everything was working great with all files transferred. All of a sudden when I opened Chrome to go to a website, the iMac gave me the rolling beach ball and eventually wouldn't load the webpage. I went to close Chrome and it took at least 30 secs to close.
After that, everything that I go to open is taking at least 1 minute or more to open. I disconnected all external HDs, restarted several times, unplugged from wall to no avail.
I've tried looking at system preferences to see if the fan was not working but it took too long to open.
Heres the thing: I have 20GB of RAM in my iMac. It has been really fast until now.
I was able to finally open "About this Mac" and next to the memory it says "20 GB ???". I don't know what the three question marks mean and have never seen it before.
I was able to click "system report" and all RAM says "OK" next to it. I'm really confused why all of a sudden this is happening. And of course, while I'm in the middle of a huge project
Anyone that can help?? :-/
I have a pretty strange situation and hoping someone can help before I cry (LOL jk)
For the past few days I have been transferring files from all my external drives (I have 4) and placing them on a new 5TB External HD for a backup.
I checked on the iMac this morning and everything was working great with all files transferred. All of a sudden when I opened Chrome to go to a website, the iMac gave me the rolling beach ball and eventually wouldn't load the webpage. I went to close Chrome and it took at least 30 secs to close.
After that, everything that I go to open is taking at least 1 minute or more to open. I disconnected all external HDs, restarted several times, unplugged from wall to no avail.
I've tried looking at system preferences to see if the fan was not working but it took too long to open.
Heres the thing: I have 20GB of RAM in my iMac. It has been really fast until now.
I was able to finally open "About this Mac" and next to the memory it says "20 GB ???". I don't know what the three question marks mean and have never seen it before.
I was able to click "system report" and all RAM says "OK" next to it. I'm really confused why all of a sudden this is happening. And of course, while I'm in the middle of a huge project
Anyone that can help?? :-/