Why is Yosemite OS X so slow?

[spidermark]

Ever since I downloaded Yosemite a few days ago, when I open a folder, sometimes the images content are right there, and sometimes the folder appears empty. When it appears empty, if I leave it open, within a minute, or two, or sometimes 10 minutes, the folder will populate itself. Sometimes not. I depend on my images and do not work solely from iPhoto. I use file folders for my images also. Any suggestions?

I must say, so far I am very, very underwhelmed with Yosemite. Long lag times, with something as simple as opening a folder? I have tried all the suggestions I have seen online. I repaired the registry, used clean my mac 2, tried re-booting, etc. I am at my wits end with Yosemite. Feels really half baked.

 

[podraig]

hints

go into your home had, from startup, repair permissions, then reset pram, then reset smc, you will find it takes care of these issues and you will be back to normal ;D

 

[chas_m]

spidermark: I've been living with Yosemite for months, and am experiencing nothing even REMOTELY like what you describe. Yosemite is like lightning here.

Is the hard drive approaching full? How much RAM have you got?

 

[spidermark]

I have 16GB of ram. Always was plenty with mavericks. my computer was lightening quick with mavericks. I have about 450GB free on my 1TB HD. Not sure what is going on. Yosemite has not been pleasant so far.

thanks,

 

[spidermark]

go into your home had, from startup, repair permissions, then reset pram, then reset smc, you will find it takes care of these issues and you will be back to normal ;D

Sorry but I am not a techie. What is reset pram and reset SMC? How do I do that? I do not see that option in repair permissions.
thanks,
Mark

 

[docx]

Did you update or clean install. Most of the problems I have seen with Yosemite have been with users who have updated rather than doing a clean install.
My MacBook Pro was slow after upgrading but is fine after wiping the HDD and clean installing Yosemite.

 

[vansmith]

I repaired the registry, used clean my mac 2, tried re-booting, etc.

OS X doesn't have a registry so I'm curious, what piece of software told you that it was cleaning the registry? This could very well be a piece of the problem.

I am at my wits end with Yosemite. Feels really half baked.

That might be an understatement. Yosemite leaves much to be imagined in terms of QA (my machine just had weird graphics glitches a moment ago for no reason that were solved with a reboot...).

 

[pigoo3]

What is reset pram and reset SMC? How do I do that? I do not see that option in repair permissions.

The hard/unknown part for you...is someone suggesting trying these things. The easy part (for you( is doing an internet search…to get the instructions to do all of this.

- Nick

 

[Slydude]

Are the folders you are working with stored on your hard drive or somewhere on a network? I've seen similar behavior when the folder I want is on a networked drive and the network is acting up.

Personally I would get rid of Clean My Mac.

 

[lclev]

I agree with Slydude...get rid of clean my Mac...

And a couple of links for how to

OS X Mavericks: Reset your computer. - resetting your PRAM
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964 - resetting the SMC

Lisa

 

[harryb2448]

First up get rid of CleanMyMac!!!

Ypu may have to go this bothersome route:-


http://macpaw.com/support/cleanmymac/knowledgebase/how-to-uninstall-cleanmymac-2

 

[spidermark]

OS X doesn't have a registry so I'm curious, what piece of software told you that it was cleaning the registry? This could very well be a piece of the problem.

That might be an understatement. Yosemite leaves much to be imagined in terms of QA (my machine just had weird graphics glitches a moment ago for no reason that were solved with a reboot...).

I meant repair disk permissions. I did that. Little change. still alot of lag time.

 

[spidermark]

Are the folders you are working with stored on your hard drive or somewhere on a network? I've seen similar behavior when the folder I want is on a networked drive and the network is acting up.

Personally I would get rid of Clean My Mac.

What do you use in the place of clean my mac 2? I did update to a compatible version. DO you think that could be affecting my system and slowing it down?

 

[gsahli]

What do you use in the place of clean my mac 2? I did update to a compatible version. DO you think that could be affecting my system and slowing it down?

Absolutely!
Macs don't need any "cleaning." This is a scam, or just crap software. Based on Scare tactics -- and Windows users who think such things are necessary...

 

[vansmith]

Macs don't need any "cleaning."

That's debatable. OS X is still an operating system in which files, littered across a complex filesystem, can cause issues and slowdowns. OS X is not intrinsically immune to corruption and/or cruft buildup.

 

[chas_m]

I don't have an opinion on Clean My Mac, but we have long recommended OnyX (free) for that purpose as a program we KNOW is legit and we KNOW does what it says on the tin (so to speak).