Hello everyone! Quick question. I have an older MBP intel core 2 duo. I keep getting the beach ball every time i open a new application (itunes, safari, ect....). Do I need to do a clean up like you would with windows. Like a defrag kind of thing. It happens every time. It's fairly slow as well. I have the mid level internet with FIOS which is pretty decent speed wise but on my mac it seems slow. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
spinning beach ball
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Do a Repair Disk Permission in Disk Utility and it would help if you posted specs I believe
more ram will help but without specs posted just a guess also what OS.
more ram will help but without specs posted just a guess also what OS.
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How much free space on the hard drive? You need at least 10-15% free space for the drive to work anywhere near peak efficiency.
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