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Not sure what else I can do.
Well, clearly something is running that is taking up system resources to the point that it is causing the wait cursor (spinning beachball) to appear. The thing to do is to find out what is running and causing that.
Try this.
Run Activity Monitor (in your Applications/Utilities folder), and
click on the "%CPU" header, and then click on the triangle in the %CPU
header so that things are ordered in that column from largest to
least. Make sure that All Processes is chosen in the drop down menu at the top of the window.
See what is running that is using the most CPU time. If it
has a really high number, this is likely to be what is causing your
slowdown.
If there is nothing apparent causing the problem, leave Activity Monitor open while you work, and during one of the
times when your Mac has slowed to a crawl or the spinning beachball is present for an extended period, switch to Activity Monitor
and see if something is using up all of your processor's time.
Let me know what you find. It may not be easy to know what it is that you are looking at when you find it. "mds" and "mdimport" are Spotlight processes. If they are what is causing the slowdown, Spotlight probably has a corrupted database. If that is the case, let me know. That's easy to fix and I will tell you how.