My mac is about 5 years old and i never turn it off. I am sure there is so much crap on it that is making it very slow. Receintly the spinning ball is apeiring more often. What can i do to clean up alot of the un-needed crap on this machine?Thanks
Another question (there's so many)
How much free space is available on your hard drive?
Do tell us what Mac model you have.
Best is to go to the Apple menu, then About this Mac, and click on More Info button, and click on System Report.
That will open your System Information.
In the Hardware Overview, what is the listed for Model Identifier?
I expect that you have a Mac that is 5 or 6 years old. If you have the original hard drive, then noticeable slowdowns may be symptoms of a failing hard drive.
What do you mean by (A fresh install? ).Beach balls are generally caused by 3 things.
1, cluttered os
2, spotlight indexing on top of usual usage
3, I/o access delays.
If you want to pep your machine up a fresh install will do the trick.
If you want to get the best performance boost then increase the ram to 8gb and slap a cheap ssd in there.
My mac is about 5 years old and i never turn it off. I am sure there is so much crap on it that is making it very slow. Receintly the spinning ball is apeiring more often. What can i do to clean up alot of the un-needed crap on this machine?Thanks
Yes I have but still very slow.You say you never turn it off. Have you tried doing that and restarting?
Yes I have but still very slow.