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Why Your Mac Is Running Slower? – Reasons And Solutions – Part-2

8-Permissions Conflicts

Many problems like application is loading slowly or working weird can be solved by repairing permissions. Each file in Mac Os X includes a set of permissions; this decides which user or application can get access to them. Sometimes permissions are wrong and the operating system does not understand them. Fix disk permissions by using the Disk Utility app; you will find it in Applications/Utilities. Select your start up disk then first you should click First Aid tab and then click the Repair Disk Permissions option.

9-Hard Disk With no extra space

Mac uses free space available on the hard disc as Virtual Memory in order to free up the RAM. So, you should make sure the availability of 10% free space for this purpose. Read More

Why Your Mac Is Running Slower? – Reasons And Solutions – Part-1

Your Mac has gone slower and slower and you didn’t really feel it since it happened in quite little steps day by day. You keep on using it until one day you got a chance to work on someone else’s machine, that day you noticed what your dear Mac appears to you as slow as an asthmatic ant running with heavy load.

Don’t worry the situation is still in your hands. Below is a list of tips; this will not put your Mac into a speed demon overnight but I assure you that one may help you.

1-Desktop Excessively Cluttered

Are there too many files and folders on your desktop? If yes, they are slowing down your machine. Arrange these files into folders and keep them in your home directory. You can have access to them by creating aliases to them.

2-Having Corrupt Preference Files

Preference files usually become corrupted. This makes program’s working weird or slow. If your Mac runs slow while using any particular application you should delete its preference file and re-launch that application. Applications create a new preference file if they don’t find this file. Read More