[Leica] OT: sluggish iMac

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

I thought the whole idea of using a MAC with all the proprietary
restrictions was to avoid this sort of nonsense. Never happens to me on
Windows nowadays.....
Cheers
Jayanand

On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 8:26 PM, RicCarter <ric at cartersxrd.net> wrote:

> recent OSX.10 will start from a special restore partician if you runrepair
> disck
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> > On Oct 8, 2015, at 10:32 AM, Leo Wesson <leowesson at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hi Nathan,
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> > Sounds like a software thing.  I would go back to a blank disc and
> install software one at a time to see if one of your programs is causing
> the problem.
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> > Leo Wesson
> > leowesson.com
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> >> On Oct 8, 2015, at 01:16, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:
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> >> My 7-year iMac started acting up back in April: it became very sluggish
> and finally refused to boot up. I managed to boot it from an external disk
> and back up my mail and other stuff (my pictures all reside on external
> drives, so no danger there). I then took the computer to the Apple Store
> and had them look at it. The verdict was that there was nothing physically
> wrong with the internal HD, so they just wiped the disk clean and
> re-installed the OSX and all was well…until this week, when it started
> showing the same symptoms again. It still boots up but is extremely
> sluggish, to the point of being useless. Disk Utility reports no problems
> but obviously something is wrong. I recently upgraded to El Capitan but I
> do not think this is the cause because it was beginning to show the
> symptoms already before the upgrade. Before I take it back to the store for
> a hard disk replacement, does anyone have any idea of what else can cause
> such behavior?
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> >> I have my new Macbook Air, and all my stuff is backed up etc. But I
> want the nice big screen of my iMac back, and I do not feel like buying a
> new computer at this point.
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> >> TIA for any ideas,
> >> Nathan
> >>
> >> Nathan Wajsman
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