[Leica] OT: sluggish iMac

[Nathan Wajsman]

I am fairly convinced that the HD is about to fail, Jayanand, which is not
that unusual after 7 years of daily (almost) use, independently of OS.

To all others: thanks for the many helpful suggestions. I visited a shop
in Alicante during the lunch break today, and they can replace the hard
disk with an SSD of the same size for a reasonable price, so I will get a
speed boost as well.

Cheers,
Nathan

Op Do, 8 oktober, 2015 17:08, schreef 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
>>
>> ric
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>> > On Oct 8, 2015, at 10:32 AM, Leo Wesson <leowesson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi Nathan,
>> >
>> > 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.
>> >
>> > Leo Wesson
>> > leowesson.com
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>> >> On Oct 8, 2015, at 01:16, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> 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?
>> >>
>> >> 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.
>> >>
>> >> TIA for any ideas,
>> >> Nathan
>> >>
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