Hi Shayne Thanks for your comments on speed with a Mac with comparable specs. Problem now fixed (??).
I had an odd event yesterday which may have caused the slowdown. NeoOffice advised of a software upgrade (to 3.3 Beta2) which I accepted. However it did not seem to download as I immediately got an error message "neooffice.dmg not recognized". It was not clear if this was an iMac or NeoOffice message in Safari. In Downloads I clicked on the "X" across the greyed-out image. The image disappeared and presumably went into Trash. I returned to the website a little later to attempt another download. Got the same error message. This time I perused the N.O. website for help (I had just paid them $10 which went through without problems!). I then noticed the Download folder was displaying an activity bar 50% complete. Yes, despite the "error" message the .dmg file was apparently being downloaded anyway. NeoOffice 3.3 was eventually installed and it worked. Did housekeeping and the image file sent to Trash. Later at night I attempted to Empty Trash - but got message that "…dmg was in use and could not be deleted". Closed the App; "put back" the file from Trash and then Trashed it again. Same message. Finally did a Restart. This time the process of trashing the file from the download folder and emptying trash worked perfectly. There is a possibility that the first NeoOffice download I had Trashed was still downloading in the background (in Trash?) when I started the second download. I don't know if it was the first or second download that required the Restart to free up any handles that may have locked up. It may have been this lock-up that caused the slowdown effect long past the time when NeoOffice was installed. The speed has been good today. I checked iStat Pro and now have Activity Monitor open and they shows no problem with resources. And again, it seems that a good old fashioned Restart cleared away all the cobwebs. Cheers Alan On 03/08/2012, at 7:47 PM, S Beach <sbscr...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Alan For comparison, I have a late 2009 Macbook Pro with the same Processor as yours, 8 GB of RAM and a 500GB hard drive with only 47GB free. I have not seen a noticeable slowdown since installing Mountain Lion. Generally it seems to be business as usual. Given my experience I would suspect that your problem may be a software issue. Hope this helps to give you some comparative info on similar hardware. Regards Shayne On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Alan Smith <sma...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > Hello all > > Getting to grips with the new features of Mountain Lion following my > upgrade from Snow Leopard. > > I find applications are taking an appreciable time (2 to 3 times longer > than expected?) to respond. At this stage I ask WAMUG to monitor their > experience. I don't want to spend time trialling possibilities, or doing a > clean install, just now. Perhaps a trend of evidence will emerge over > time. My iMac is quite workable so it is not urgent to pursue. The Apple > Communities forum has some discussion on this topic but no very clear cause > and direction has emerged. > > The problem may just be the processor. My iMac is late 2009 with basic > specs (21.5" Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz) but with 12GB of RAM. 500GB hard > drive has 360GB free. Previously found these specs were not good enough to > drive AirParrot mirroring whereas a similar vintage 27" higher-optioned > iMac had no problems. (I realise my iMac will not handle AirPlay > Mirroring, which is a most desirable feature.) > > I think this also demonstrates the advantages of a solid state drive! > Something to seriously consider for the next new computer - - -. > (Probably no coincidence that Apple have been marketing SSD computers since > Lion.) > > Regards, > Alan > > Alan Smith > iMac 21.5" Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 12G RAM - OSX 10.8 > iPad2; ATV2 > > > > > > > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - < > http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
