I have a M1 MBP I purchased in 2020, it's starting to load slower. I have a 1tb hard drive that has 153 gigs of space remaining. Would it be a good idea to reformat the hard drive and review what I install, would that help speed things up again?
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You might be thinking correctly about overcrowding affecting performance. Have you done a review of what's stored on there to see if any large files/folders can be trashed or off-loaded?
Yes, unfortunately one of my hobbies is photography and my photos are stored locally and backed up a few places. That accounts for 577GB of the storage. I don't really want to move lightroom catalog and photos to an external drive, 142 gigs is apps, the larger ones are tied to my photography workflow.
Same MacBook Pro M1 but with 516 GB of RAM: I solved everything by formatting and moving all the photos to iCloud (I also tried Dropbox and it's equally valid). Nothing stops you from then saving the photos on a personal HD.
Tahoe runs smoothly even on this 5 year old processor
Tahoe runs smoothly even on this 5 year old processor
what OS are we running?
Tahoe'd drained my MacBook Air M1 storage and speed big time
so reverted to Monterey which I prefer anyways.
Sequoia was ehhhhh for speed while Ventura and Sonoma were just boring
and that did not have "new folder file open window" features.
im very happy and secure with Monterey with has a better computer settings
than these iPad system settings which is "busy" to adjust something on the MBA m1
I now keep over 90GB /265 free since likes to use that for their convenience nowadays.
hope this helped!
I do not use Lightroom, for my needs Apple Photos is ok and it works well with iCloud.
No harm in trying. First, put those 577GB of photos on an external drive, and see what happens. Leave the MBP running for a day.
Used an M1 Air for years. Recently picked up an M2 Max Studio. I'm shooting Sony apsc (24 & 16 mb files). Other than Enhance, unless you’re doing major batch jobs, an M1 is more than adequate for Lightroom. I don’t believe you can run Monterey with current Lightroom (I think that’s why I moved to Sonoma). If that’s incorrect, Monterey is the sweet spot. I don’t understand your hesitation with moving image files to an external. Other than the current year, all my image files are on a fast external. Work better than fine. Yes, an ssd needs more free space than you’re providing. I never go over 50% used. I believe the comment about cloud storage refers to LRCC. Unless something has changed, I don’t believe LRC can catalog cloud based images.
When was the last time you did a fresh install of the OS? It could just be a bit sluggish after years of all the updates.
I would try a fresh install first and then move everything back on to see how it behaves
I would try a fresh install first and then move everything back on to see how it behaves
What do you mean by 'slower? Is your cpu running slower or is it io bound? You can get an external SSD drive to offload some of your photos, I use a Crucial external SSD drive to backup photos or just copied them to it and
delete from HD. Check your Monitor Activity to see what is slowing your down. Maybe uninstall apps that you don't need. Check what is running when login. My old 'pro from 2015 runs fine.
delete from HD. Check your Monitor Activity to see what is slowing your down. Maybe uninstall apps that you don't need. Check what is running when login. My old 'pro from 2015 runs fine.