Re: Sluggish behavior After Updating to Mavericks

2014-05-02 Thread Steve Holmes
Yeah, I had a lot of performance issues shortly after a Mavericks update too last month. I wasn’t aware of spotlight index rebuilds or any of that but the only real outstanding issue here now is Mail still seems sluggish at times but over all, the machine is quite workable now. Another thing

Sluggish behavior After Updating to Mavericks

2014-04-29 Thread Kristeen Hughes
I know this has been discussed before. If there is an archive I can't find it. I have a Macbook with 4 gig memory and I hpdated it to Mavericks last night. Things are very sluggish and busy. They are slow to respond and mail seems the worst. I thought 4 gig could run Mavericks on a Macbook. Is

Re: Sluggish behavior After Updating to Mavericks

2014-04-29 Thread Alex Hall
Are you running all the latest updates? I found that 10.9.2 fixed those problems for me. Also, Mail may take a while to sync everything and settle down, so if it is the primary source of the trouble, see if it doesn't fix itself in a couple days. To test this, quit Mail entirely and go about

Re: Sluggish behavior After Updating to Mavericks

2014-04-29 Thread Ray Foret Jr
In addition, did you run repair disk and restart your machine? I'd suppose that, if indeed you downloaded and installed Mavricks just last night, Odd's are you are running the latest version. Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The

Re: Sluggish behavior After Updating to Mavericks

2014-04-29 Thread Kristeen Hughes
This is a Macbook that they do not make anymore. It's about three to four years old. Is there a reason to think I should go back to Mountain Lion and if so, how do I do that? Kristeen On Apr 29, 2014, at 3:20 PM, Ray Foret Jr rforet7...@comcast.net wrote: In addition, did you run repair disk

Re: Sluggish behavior After Updating to Mavericks

2014-04-29 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I think Mavericks rebuilds a number of indexes such as spotlights which can take a while. Like Alex said, all that should settle down after 'a while'. CB On 4/29/14, 3:01 PM, Alex Hall wrote: Are you running all the latest updates? I found that 10.9.2 fixed those problems for me. Also, Mail

Re: Updating to Mavericks

2013-10-24 Thread Nicholas Parsons
You might also like the book Take Control of Upgrading to Mavericks, which explains in detail the process of upgrading to Mavericks from Snow Leopard. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop

Updating to Mavericks

2013-10-23 Thread Jane
Hi eveyrone. When I looked in the app store on this Macbook Pro I saw a button that let me upgrade to Mavericks, but when I look on my daughter's Mac, I don't seem to see it. Will it just not be there if the Mac can't be upgraded? She's running Snow Leopard. The trouble i, I can't find what

Re: Updating to Mavericks

2013-10-23 Thread Matt Dierckens
Hi. Try typing in OSX in the search field and see if its there. They did say that its still available on snow leopard. Matt Dierckens matt.dierck...@gmail.com Assistive Technology Trainer IOS and Macintosh User support Windsor area On 2013-10-23, at 8:34 PM, Jane juanitatig...@gmail.com wrote: