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Choose Shut Down from the Apple () menu.

TIP: Bookmark this page, press CMD + D to add a bookmark in your browser. If you are lucky, maybe this is the only thing you have to do! I promise this guide will be here when you come back online again. So if you haven’t already: please start this guide with a shutdown of your computer (not restart, shutdown). It is often hanging applications and similar that in the end can make the computer feel slow and sluggish.

#Apple snow leopard spinning wheel mac#

Have you tried turning it off and on again? Ever heard this? Its actually not a joke… Your Mac can be turned on for weeks or months without any serious problems, but every now and then a shut down is recommended. Is your Mac running slow showing you that spinning wheel? Starts to feel sluggish, slow and unresponsive? This article should help you out! 1. the machine did come with Mavericks, which is strange, but she is considering putting Mavericks back on.14 Easy Ways To Speed Up a Painfully Slow Mac

#Apple snow leopard spinning wheel pro#

My friend got Yosemite running on a new Mac pro and even on that it can go on a go slow and you are looking at a 6 Intel Xeon and 16 GB of ram. If you do decide to downgrade, people are right in saying that Time Machine images aren't backwards compatible: I had trouble even reading a 10.8.latest TM image using the 10.8.0 distribution media. Although as you're a techie, brewing your own Fusion Drive might be fun, too. A 2010 iMac can take 32GB of RAM, although 16GB is the official maximum 8GB would be fine. It may be that your workload is enough to start it paging. Unless money is a real issue, I'd be inclined to sling in some more RAM. But all those machines have 8GB and/or an SSD. I've also got Yosemite on a variety of older tin - 2009 Mini, 2008 Macbook Pro - and it's similarly fine it's certainly better than Mavericks was on the same equipment. That will massively mitigate the effect of struggling for RAM, because paging is so much quicker.

But the iMac has been hacked around a bit - it's got a DIY Fusion Drive in it, with a 120GB SSD in the main drive bay and a 1TB laptop drive sat where the DVD used to be - and the AIr is obviously SSD only. I've got Yosemite running on a 2007 iMac with only 4GB of RAM in it, and a similarly be-RAM'd 2011 Air and it's fine. On a tangential note, I suspect your problem would be easily fixed with a small amount of RAM. Then re-introduce my data to the newly installed OS. Restore the hard drive to exactly how I got it in 2010 with Snow Leopard (I have the DVD installation DVDs).Ģ. So can somebody give me a step-by-step solution of how toġ. Is that enough to ensure that I will not lose any data?

#Apple snow leopard spinning wheel full#

So I have a full Time Machine backup and a backup of 'All My Files'. However I'm not sure which folders they would need to be restored to to be seen by the Applications if I do a full OS re-install. I also used file finder and clicked on the 'All My Files' option and saved all of these files to an external hard drive.

#Apple snow leopard spinning wheel Pc#

I've been building Windows PC since the mid 1980's (286 and 386) and therefore i do have some technical knowledge. There is NO WAY I would have all those photos without a backup. However again I have little experience of Time Machine and not sure whether I can restore data without the OS (which will be Yosemite on the Time Machine Backup). I have an External USB3 2Tb hard drive and a full backup using Apple Time Machine. It's just Apple OS and iMacs that I have very little tech awareness or experience of. I am tech aware and quite happy tech wise to give something a go. Sorry guys maybe I haven't been clear on my situation. what would you do if your hard drive gave up? i am shocked that you got no back up of your photos.īefore doing anything go out and get a external hard drive and back up your photos. Well I do nto know about you being able to go back to snow leopard without losing anything.

I have my full photo collection from June 2010 on this iMac and I want to be sure I don't lose it.!Īny help from a Apple OS user would be great. How can I easily (or with difficulty) revert my Apple OS back to a point where it operates at a reasonable speed without much use of the rainbow wheel? Obviously without losing any of the media or documents I have already created on the iMac. When I bought my iMac it came with Snow Leopard. I have mainly been a Windows OS user for most of my life. My experience of Apple OS is very limited to almost nothing. I recently upgraded the OS to Yosemite and suddenly it is one of the slowest computers I have seen! Seeing the spinning rainbow wheel is now the norm for me.! When I first bought my iMac in June 2010 it was unbelievably fast at everything.