Mid 2012 MacBook Pro 13" Awfully Slow

[mr99]

Everything came over except for my pictures folder.

 

[mr99]

I'm manually moving picture folders over but iPhoto seems to be problematic. Every time it transfers a few gigs then fails and says a problem occurred. How can I move my iPhoto library? I tried copy and pasting and also dragging it to the pictures folder on my SSD

 

[mr99]

By default, your iPhoto Library lives in the Pictures folder in your home directory, and is called iPhoto Library. Copying this 'file' will bring the full iPhoto Library over to the new machine. The iPhoto Library is just a wrapper for the more complex file structure that iPhoto uses. If you right click it and choose show package contents, you can get some insight as to how iPhoto manages your photos

Note: If you press and hold the option key immediately after launching iPhoto, you will get a pop up that allows you to point to the iPhoto Library you want to use. You may also create new iPhoto Libraries that will allow you to split your iPhoto Library, if desired.

What he said above. Lol.

All your files (docs, photos, movies, music, etc) is stored in your home folder (folder with home icon). If you're worried about transferring files use migration assistant and transfer files only to keep your new install clean. The assistant will put everything where it needs to be.

It's located in /Users/yourusername/Pictures

Trying to copy my iPhoto file into my SSD in the pictures folder, it copies all the way and then says it fails at the end with no data actually transferred. What am I missing?

 

[Weaselboy]

Trying to copy my iPhoto file into my SSD in the pictures folder, it copies all the way and then says it fails at the end with no data actually transferred. What am I missing?

You should be able to just drag the iPhoto library over to the new drive. Were you having troubles with the old drive before you upgraded?

Try a Disk Utility repair disk on the hard drive and see if that helps.

 

[mr99]

You should be able to just drag the iPhoto library over to the new drive. Were you having troubles with the old drive before you upgraded?



Try a Disk Utility repair disk on the hard drive and see if that helps.

I had a copy of my pictures folder on my other external drive and tried copying from there. Copied perfect. I think the original HDD has issues. Anyway I am back to normal and all my media is in place. Thanks again guys.

 

[c1phr]

I know that it appears the OP's issue was resolved (SSD really is the way to go these days), I just wanted to pitch in another free resolution that's worth trying for anyone else who stumbles upon this thread one day.

My girlfriend's 2012 13" MBP was experiencing pretty much identical symptoms, and no memory compression/excessive paging and the hard drive appeared to be fine, and repairing disk permissions didn't change anything (though had plenty to fix). Finally tried an SMC reset before resorting to an SSD and everything was as new again. Worth a try for anyone else who experiences similar issues.

 

[FatMac512]

I disagree.

Re-installing the OS is something that people have drug over from Windows - it's not nearly as useful on MacOS.

It has costs in terms of time spent, and risk for having items go missing.

[doublepost=1519077192][/doublepost]I have had great success reinstalling MacOS on my 2012 Macbook Pro with 16gb RAM with SSD. The speed increase was terrific.

 

[SweeneyD24]

Yes I know, it's really odd. I wish I could figure it out, but so far no luck.

Can you possibly have a corrupted profile then? Transfer everything from the old profile to the new one and see what happens. Then delete the old profile.

 

[mick2]

I suspect that the OP is beyond caring about this by now

 

[SweeneyD24]

Can you possibly have a corrupted profile then? Transfer everything from the old profile to the new one and see what happens. Then delete the old profile.

Okay guys, I came here initially because I was having a serious issue with my MBP 13" 2012 being AWFULLY SLOW for god knows whatever reason.
That (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B077SF8KMG/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) solved my problem. It's like i'm using a brand new laptop. Everything (and i mean EVERYTHING!!!!!) is super fast.
In my case, my 1TB HDD was most probably dying. You might wanna try cloning the current HDD to an SSD and watch the magic.