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I have a 9 year old iMac that is running slow, freezes often and sometimes shuts down on its own. Attached is the EtreCheck Report that I ran. It has 2 TB of memory but only 283 GB available. I just used Time Machine and it took 18 hours to run the backup. It is running Monterey 12.7.6 Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
iMac 27″, macOS 12.7
Get Find Any File...
http://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/index.php
Hold Option or alt key when selecting Find to Find All.
Search like this...
Get Find Any File...
http://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/index.php
Hold Option or alt key when selecting Find to Find All.
Search like this...
Have you emptied the trash lately?
See if you have 50GB of files you can move or delete.
You can use Drive DX to possibly get a better view of Drive health…
https://binaryfruit.com/drivedx
Delete these files & restart...
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.installer.cleanupinstaller.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.macvpn.MacVPNHelper.plist
/Library/LaunchAgents/com.support.com.ScreenCapturesrvd.plist
/Library/LaunchAgents/com.support.com.Nexusd.plist
/Library/LaunchAgents/com.support.com.Nexussrvd.plist
~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.movavi.screencapturestudio3.screencapture.startup.plist
~ tilde indicates your home folder
Apple hid the Users' Library folders...
Method 1:
1 From the Finder, select the Go menu at top of the screen, and choose Go to Folder.
2 In the window that opens, enter ~/Library, and click Go.
Or…
Use the Command-Shift-period
Report looks OK, a little over 5 years of life left in it at most. Frankly I'm at a loss for the cause of your problem.:(
Thanks for the suggestions. I looked for the files to delete but was unable to find any of them. The trash is empty. I will try to put more files onto my external drive. Still waiting for Drive DX to finish uploading.
Using Find Any File as you suggested I was able to find the files and delete them. I also checked to make sure my waste basket was empty. I also deleted some more files from my hard drive. I then restarted my computer. Computer is still slow with the spinning wheel at times. It also randomly shut down once since the restart. Anything else you can recommend?? I appreciate your help.
Thanks for your help. Still working on transferring photos onto an external drive so there will be more storage. In an unrelated question, a two years ago I partitioned my older external hard drive and now would like to remove the partition, is there a way to do it without losing what is already on the one partition? The other partition is empty
Here is the report from binary fruit. Thanks for taking the time to help me.
I understand your iMac is running slow, freezes often and sometimes shuts down on its own. Please determine if the same problems occur in "Safe Mode": Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support.
You can use Drive DX to possibly get a better view of Drive health…
Depends what you plan on using it for, I'd suggest a new dreive or SSD.
iMac running slow
