[Leica] OT: sluggish iMac

[John McMaster]

Not sure that you ever said that it was on its original disk, you get speed improvements as years go on even without SSDs never mind reliability of having one <3 years old....

Look for Carbon Copy Cloner to mirror image your current disk

john

-----Original Message-----

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
>>
>>
>> > 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
>> >
>> >> 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
>> >>
>> >> Nathan Wajsman
>> >> Alicante, Spain
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