Hello,
My wife's 2006ish Macbook is running very very slow. She recently had some pictures taken and saved the pictures on her MB. There was a 6.5gb folder that unarchived to over 7gb. The folder contained a lot of files, all were NEF (Nikon raw). The unarchiving was brutal on her computer. She attempted several times and an hour or so later, her computer would just turn off. I ended up unarchiving them on my MBP then transferring to her.
Once we got the unarchived files on her MB, her computer had a hard time viewing the pictures. We imported them to iPhoto so she could view all at once more easily and that was the end.
Her computer now chugs along very slowly. Everything is slow. Startup now takes 5 minutes or so, then takes several minutes to load the Desktop. Opening any app takes a while too, then forget about using the app. A simple Safari page request turns back quite a while later (the internet is fine).
Things I tried:
NEF files are now removed - still slow
Ran Disk Utility - returned fine
Ran Onyx - says disk needs repair
Disk Utility again - repairs some things on disk, things get slightly quicker
Ran Onyx again - finished this time
Onyx verifies SMART status at startup and says its fine
Specs:
10.6.4
2 GB Ram
2 GHz Intel
250 GB HD replaced (new within a year)
So, any thoughts or suggestions? I do have Time Machine backups so I could restore back to before the pictures, but I am worried it could still happen. I wonder if its something else or a coincidence since the pics are gone and still happening. It also seems weird to have the whole computer get sluggish.
TIA
My wife's 2006ish Macbook is running very very slow. She recently had some pictures taken and saved the pictures on her MB. There was a 6.5gb folder that unarchived to over 7gb. The folder contained a lot of files, all were NEF (Nikon raw). The unarchiving was brutal on her computer. She attempted several times and an hour or so later, her computer would just turn off. I ended up unarchiving them on my MBP then transferring to her.
Once we got the unarchived files on her MB, her computer had a hard time viewing the pictures. We imported them to iPhoto so she could view all at once more easily and that was the end.
Her computer now chugs along very slowly. Everything is slow. Startup now takes 5 minutes or so, then takes several minutes to load the Desktop. Opening any app takes a while too, then forget about using the app. A simple Safari page request turns back quite a while later (the internet is fine).
Things I tried:
NEF files are now removed - still slow
Ran Disk Utility - returned fine
Ran Onyx - says disk needs repair
Disk Utility again - repairs some things on disk, things get slightly quicker
Ran Onyx again - finished this time
Onyx verifies SMART status at startup and says its fine
Specs:
10.6.4
2 GB Ram
2 GHz Intel
250 GB HD replaced (new within a year)
So, any thoughts or suggestions? I do have Time Machine backups so I could restore back to before the pictures, but I am worried it could still happen. I wonder if its something else or a coincidence since the pics are gone and still happening. It also seems weird to have the whole computer get sluggish.
TIA