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I had a similar problems with my Mac slowing down to a crawl with certain instances of disk access. I tried turning off spotlight (which was taking a very long
by deweller 15y ago
I had a similar problems with my Mac slowing down to a crawl with certain instances of disk access.
I tried turning off spotlight (which was taking a very long time to complete) but it did not help.
For me, the problem turned out to be a failing hard drive. After replacing my system hard drive, things returned to normal speed.
I'm just posting this in case it might help someone else.
- coffeedrinker 15y agoI concur. I've seen this exact behavior on two different systems when the hard drive was beginning to fail. Swapping the drive fixed the problem. My friend had installed a new larger drive that was causing the problem, whereas there were no beach balls while booting off the original drive via USB.