Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/10/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan, I wonder if the FileVault encryption process in El Capitan could be causing the slowdown. I tried to upgrade my MacBook Air (mid 2011) from Yosemite to El Capitan last weekend and after 2 1/2 days it still had not completely encrypted the files on the internal SSD (less than half of a 256GB SSD) and was telling me it thought it would take up to 2,255 days to complete the task. Further, it won't let me install El Capitan until the encryption is complete This laptop is my 'guinea pig' for such things so I'm not overly concerned quite yet but I have seen on various support forums comments that El Capitan and/or FileVault can cause sluggish behavior. I plan to call Apple support soon and if I learn something useful I'll post it here. It may be that I'll wind up having to do a wipe and reinstall but that's going to be a major hassle because I have to have a windows virtual machine installed (I use Parallels) so I can access my office's windows network which means I'll need to find disks and reinstall a lot of stuff. Maybe I should just buy a new laptop and send this one to my daughter and let her figure it out? --Bob ===On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 1:16 AM, 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 > http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> > http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws < > http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ < > http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> > Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator < > http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> > YNWA > >