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WTF is up with the beach balls.

YsoSerious

YsoSerious

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Oct 8, 2008
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Ok, I got a 17 MBP early 2011 it has 8 GB ram and the 500gb @7200rpm hard drive. So why am I getting these beach ball icon everytime I open apps. I did do a migration transfer of about 150gb from a time machine back up from my old Mac. Is this the problem or is it the hard drive being it's not ssd?
 
YsoSerious said:
Ok, I got a 17 MBP early 2011 it has 8 GB ram and the 500gb @7200rpm hard drive. So why am I getting these beach ball icon everytime I open apps. I did do a migration transfer of about 150gb from a time machine back up from my old Mac. Is this the problem or is it the hard drive being it's not ssd?
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You really shouldn't be getting beach balls that much ... how much free RAM is available? You may be experiencing this if you have too many programs open for your RAM allotment.

The only other thing I could think of is that you may want to try a clean installation of OSX and then manually transfer over applications/documents from the TM backup ... or just drag and drop using target disk mode from your old mac. These slowdowns may be caused by decayed file structures/excessive files.

Also, how much free disk space do you have left on the HDD? When a mechanical HDD reaches near capacity (450/500Gb+ occupied in your case), overall system performance takes a hit.
 
could always be a defective HDD. The most common first sign is slow performance of a drive about to tank on you.
 
Check that your file system hasn't become corrupted and yes repair permissions too.
 
I had similar issues if not worse on my new '11 13 MBP...
SMART errors came up shortly...
it may be a bad HD
 
I've never had much luck with doing a restore from a Time Machine backup. Whenever I have tried in the past, it seemed that I would inherit problems from my previous system onto my new one. It may be a little more time consuming, but I always do a clean install and manually migrate my data over. I work in IT and coming from a Windows environment, manually configuring everything in a OS X environment is much faster :D
 
I had a similar issue with my '08 aluminum Macbook, replacing the hard drive made an amazing difference. I'd take it in to an Apple store.
 
After years of being in a Technician position, I have yet to see repairing permissions to actually solve any problem I have encountered. If anyone can actually prove that repairing permissions has solved a problem, by all means state it in this thread.
 
DesmoPilot said:
After years of being in a Technician position, I have yet to see repairing permissions to actually solve any problem I have encountered. If anyone can actually prove that repairing permissions has solved a problem, by all means state it in this thread.
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So what would you actually do in this position?

Offer OP to change HDD for free of charge?
 
DesmoPilot said:
After years of being in a Technician position, I have yet to see repairing permissions to actually solve any problem I have encountered. If anyone can actually prove that repairing permissions has solved a problem, by all means state it in this thread.
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I'm not in any technical position but I've been messing around with my family's 4 macs for years and built 3 hackintoshes and I have also never seen repairing disk permissions improve anything whatsoever. I do it anyway though. :)
 
kidwithdimples said:
So what would you actually do in this position?

Offer OP to change HDD for free of charge?
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Try my best to narrow out software conflicts (example: Are the app's that are producing beachballs fresh installs or time machine migrations? Some "Pro" apps don't play nice unless they're fresh installs). In terms of hardware, focus on RAM and HDD testing. Repairing permissions is absolutely useless.
 
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????

Why do people start threads with titles with so little details about their problems?

I would actually read the original post and try to help but I'm put off by the attitude.

Especially with WTF

WTF do you need to start your thread with WTF you FB MFB SH etc....

BTW
I read the post and since you don't give details, it's hard to diagnose.

It could be something as simple as Spotlight indexing you drive.

It could be a bad drive or Migration Transfer...

Of course you did not say what computer or OS you did your transfer from...

So from the amount of information in your OP you wasted everyone's time you SMF
 
spacepower7 said:
Why do people start threads with titles with so little details about their problems?

I would actually read the original post and try to help but I'm put off by the attitude.

Especially with WTF

WTF do you need to start your thread with WTF you FB MFB SH etc....

BTW
I read the post and since you don't give details, it's hard to diagnose.

It could be something as simple as Spotlight indexing you drive.

It could be a bad drive or Migration Transfer...

Of course you did not say what computer or OS you did your transfer from...

So from the amount of information in your OP you wasted everyone's time you SMF
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Calm the "F" down!!! My bad for the attitude. Wtf!?! Lol...relax.
More info:
Migration came from snow Os X but from an old MacBook (black). Same capacity HD on both drives. At this point I'm thinking it's the hard drive. I tried everything else mention here and still very sluggish.
 
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