Monday, 16 January 2017

Mac System acting Funny and Slow

Sometimes you just can't point in the right direction but your Mac system isn't what it use to be in terms of response and reliability. Verily, Maintenance is needed as soon as possible.

The home of drive maintenance is Disk Utility, in /Applications/Utilities. Select your drive in the panel on the left; you'll notice it has two icons, one for the hard disk itself, another for the 'logical partition' containing your data (named Macintosh HD by default).

Select either, then go to the First Aid tab and click Verify Disk. This checks the data structure; any errors it finds can usually be fixed by clicking Repair Disk.

However, if this is your main hard disk, you can't repair it while the Mac OS is running off it, so you'll need to restart with your OS DVD, holding the C key to boot from it.

Having repaired your hard disk, restart while holding down the left mouse-button to eject the DVD and restart.

If the repair fails, you'll be asked if you want to erase the disk; obviously you don't, and your next stop should be an engineer. First copy any vital files onto an external drive, and avoid writing new files to the hard disk.

You should also consider visiting your browsers and heading to Settings to delete your cache and cookies. Visit Flash Player in System Preferences and delete its saved browser data too, to see if this helps.

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