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#543619 - 11/09/10 08:16 PM My iMac slowed to slug's pace!
KateSorensen Offline
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It started by my reading a rumor site and as a result of that, downloaded free virus software, Sophos. I immediately started a scan of my iMac. Looks like it ought to be finished by the 4th of July, . . . maybe. smile

Same rumor site noted an article in MacWorld "Eight amazing Image Capture tricks. Hm. . . this is interesting. Making a contact sheet [pdf] of over a hundred pictures on my iPhone. That will be finished by Labor Day! [j/k, I screwed it up and doubled the files to a couple hundred or more. Instead of stopping it I decided to wait until "Force Quit" says it is hopelessly locked.] frown

Discovered I had successfully make a good PDF of iPhone files and opened it. It is sluggishly opening files. After playing with it, decided this is a good/useful feature. It is only 630.7 mb. The thumb nails are large [I probably controlled that somehow] and using magnifying tool, you can really enlarge it to see lots and lots of detail.

Pushing my iMac to the nth degree. Not too hot. I could turn on EyeTV had cook up a batch of barbecued ribs, perhaps.

Just quit that other PDF. Don't need it anyway. Guess I'll read the rest of the forum now. I do love playing with my Mac.



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Important: I can't post pictures from my Apple Storage space. Last night [the first time I had the problem occur] I couldn't see Carp's pic of cat from same place. I get the message, "Forbidden: Access denied by access control list.

I've searched many, many Google results. They're suggesting maybe Malware and sometimes something about security set at accessing my ISP and I'm just confused.
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#543625 - 11/09/10 08:42 PM Re: My iMac slowed to slug's pace! [Re: KateSorensen]
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Originally Posted By: KateSorensen
[I've searched many, many Google results. They're suggesting maybe Malware and sometimes something about security set at accessing my ISP and I'm just confused.
I noticed sometime yesterday im-MobileMe hosted images aren't showing. It's been almost 24 hours. MobileMe is not the most reliable. It will come back eventually when Apple fixes it.

That's not a problem with your computer though. How much hard drive space do you have left. If it's running slow try a reboot first. A 630M pdf is pretty big, it will take a while to open. Is the whole compute running slow? Could be the useless virus software you installed.


Edited by Reboot (11/09/10 08:43 PM)
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#543639 - 11/09/10 09:41 PM Re: My iMac slowed to slug's pace! [Re: Reboot]
KateSorensen Offline
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Originally Posted By: Reboot
Originally Posted By: KateSorensen
[I've searched many, many Google results. They're suggesting maybe Malware and sometimes something about security set at accessing my ISP and I'm just confused.
I noticed sometime yesterday im-MobileMe hosted images aren't showing. It's been almost 24 hours. MobileMe is not the most reliable. It will come back eventually when Apple fixes it.

That's not a problem with your computer though. How much hard drive space do you have left. If it's running slow try a reboot first. A 630M pdf is pretty big, it will take a while to open. Is the whole compute running slow? Could be the useless virus software you installed.


-----------------> Hey!

Worthless! ?? I paid, . . . oops, it was free.

I installed? ?? It has only been three hours and it is still scanning so of course my Mac is slow! smile

Mobile me is not reliable?
Watch your mouth! I just went there and message says:

System Status

* All MobileMe services are online.

Last updated: 11/9/2010, 10:42 PT

Recent System Status History
Return to MobileMe Support page

Big PDF file -- just deep 6'd it!

Reboot? Well, after Sophos gets done scanning, I will do some Utility App clean up stuff, reboot and report back. Thanks for looking after us. smile

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#543642 - 11/09/10 09:52 PM Re: My iMac slowed to slug's pace! [Re: KateSorensen]
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A lot of avatars are not showing for me all morning

Reboot avartar does show - is yours hosted on mobile me ?
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#543645 - 11/09/10 10:07 PM Re: My iMac slowed to slug's pace! [Re: carp]
KateSorensen Offline
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Reboot avatar is not on mobile me. Yes only avatars show up are ones not on mobile me it seems.


Yet, Apple says everything is okay!! Oh well.


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#543655 - 11/09/10 11:24 PM Re: My iMac slowed to slug's pace! [Re: KateSorensen]
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Registered: 04/21/02
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Loc: Pinellas Park, Florida
I wonder if Apple killed the homepage.mac.com URL.
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#543658 - 11/09/10 11:31 PM Re: My iMac slowed to slug's pace! [Re: KateSorensen]
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Kate, Kate, Kate. Never, ever download anything from rumor sites. If you must have anti-virus software, delete that Sophos stuff and get ClamXav (free).
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#543661 - 11/10/10 12:13 AM Re: My iMac slowed to slug's pace! [Re: MacBozo]
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I agree. A friend of mine had some "free" virus software on his iMac that was running up something like 30% of the CPU. You don't need it that badly.

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#543696 - 11/10/10 02:42 AM Re: My iMac slowed to slug's pace! [Re: MacBozo]
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Registered: 10/11/02
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Originally Posted By: MacBozo
I wonder if Apple killed the homepage.mac.com URL.


I think homepage.mac.com has gone the way of eWorld as of today.


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#543703 - 11/10/10 04:53 AM Re: My iMac slowed to slug's pace! [Re: MacBozo]
KateSorensen Offline
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Registered: 05/19/01
Posts: 3666
Originally Posted By: MacBozo
Kate, Kate, Kate. Never, ever download anything from rumor sites. If you must have anti-virus software, delete that Sophos stuff and get ClamXav (free).


I got rid of Sophos. Went to get CalmXav but got distracted. I'll do it tomorrow. I did Disk Utility my hard drive and it had some problems. Fixed permissions. Dusted the back of the iMac. Cleaned the front glass. Phew! smile


No avatars yet! 8:53 p.m.


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