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Macbook Pro - Spinning wheel, running slow - Help!

I'm working on a Macbook Pro (Intel, 2010) and it's *constantly* showing the spinning wheel. It runs like a complete dog, and despite running Onyx and clearing out temporary files and any unncessary software I really cannot see what's causing this!

I've performed out-of-machine hard-drive diagnostics as I had a sneaky suspicion that the HDD may either be failing, or on its way out.. but both the long and short tests passed and SMART looks healthy. (Not as though that means anything!!)

Please help, I know my way around OS X but I'm just not as aú fait with it as I'd like to be.. is there a 'Resource Manager' style app for Mac I can help troubleshoot with?

jhyiesla

Yes, you can bring up Activity Monitor which will give you an overview of what's happening. You can also look through the logs, although the Activity monitor is probably a better place to start. To bring up the logs use the Console app.

UncleVirus

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I see, I can't believe I overlooked the Activity Monitor... I've just stumbled upon a rather useful page:

http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/sbbod.html#Anchor-TS_SBBOD_Prob

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Cassie Riehl

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UncleVirus

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Followed Cassie's advice, and this markedly improved our situation. The Macbook was unfortunately still rather sluggish inbetween, so we suggested upgrading to an SSD for a noticeable improvement.

Although not completely resolved, you contributed greatly towards this question and I can see you're on a free account Cassie, so I'll award you all of the points available for this question :o)