Re: How to troubleshoot performance - MacPro, Mavericks

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From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject	Re: How to troubleshoot performance - MacPro, Mavericks
Date	8 Feb 2014 21:07:35 GMT
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On 2014-02-08, Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> wrote:
> In article <52f62ec9$0$22490$c3e8da3$f6268168@news.astraweb.com>,
>  Gary <gary_w1@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have an older (5 years) MacPro which, for the last few years, has 
>> been progressively degrading in its performance.  Things were getting 
>> unbearable when I found myself clicking on Finder in the dock, and 
>> waiting for 10-20 seconds for the actual finder window to appear.
>> 
>> I finally got up the energy make an appointment and to lug my machine 
>> downstairs and into the car, and went to the Apple store genius bar 
>> with my complaints.  The genius I got was truly a genius.  Inside of 25 
>> minutes he had waved his magic wand over my machine and restored its 
>> performance to much more acceptable levels.  When I had asked him what 
>> he had done, he talked about running Console, Repairing Permissions, 
>> and generally spoke about things I ought to know a lot more about.  
>> What he could not give me was a reference to learn more about what was 
>> ailing my machine, and how I could continue a new wave of 
>> troubleshooting the performance of an aging machine.
>> 
>> Can anyone suggest (1) how I can learn more about diagnosing problems 
>> in my aging computer, and/or (2) some program I can purchase that will 
>> do the monitoring and fixing for me?
>
> MacOS is like Windows.  It has accumulated so many layers of bugs poor 
> designs that fixing it is a matter of luck and magic.

Bull. Simple, logical, methodical diagnosis has always allowed me to
figure out the cause of Finder issues and solve them.

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JR

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How to troubleshoot performance - MacPro, Mavericks Gary <gary_w1@hotmail.com> - 2014-02-08 08:19 -0500
  Re: How to troubleshoot performance - MacPro, Mavericks Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-02-08 09:43 -0500
  Re: How to troubleshoot performance - MacPro, Mavericks Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-08 16:45 +0000
  Re: How to troubleshoot performance - MacPro, Mavericks Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> - 2014-02-08 09:41 -0800
    Re: How to troubleshoot performance - MacPro, Mavericks nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-08 12:54 -0500
      Re: How to troubleshoot performance - MacPro, Mavericks JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-02-08 13:14 -0500
    Re: How to troubleshoot performance - MacPro, Mavericks Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-08 18:45 +0000
    Re: How to troubleshoot performance - MacPro, Mavericks Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-08 21:07 +0000
      Re: How to troubleshoot performance - MacPro, Mavericks Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> - 2014-02-08 14:37 -0800

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