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Subject: [Leica] OT: sluggish iMac
From: ric at cartersxrd.net (RicCarter)
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 10:03:35 -0400
References: <B807BEE5-37E2-430A-A81E-668812DAB3FD@frozenlight.eu>

another thing to soncsider is disk utility to fix a messy directory

it will run without a bootdisk

try starting in safe mode

ric




> On Oct 8, 2015, at 2:16 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
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