Good morning, my wife's Macbook Pro (13" mid 2012) 4GB memory, running OSX 10.9.5 is running very slow and has been for a long time. It has 114GB free out of the 499GB hard disc so I don't think that in itself would be a cause for immediate concern.
She has some large items on her Desktop (video files and lots of other extraneous stuff) totalling 6.6GB and a huge amount of Mail. She is a prolific emailer. 1500 Inbox and 14,000+ in Sent dating back to 2011. Plus additional Mail accounts for kids each ill maintained as well. The thing is, it is slow all the time, whether Mail is running or not. She uses it for two main things, Mail and Safari for Facebook and general web browsing, and eBay for buying stuff. Is there a step by step process for doing some 'housekeeping' clean up and decaching of various things that will declutter this thing. It is sooooo slow its nearly unusable. I want to update her MBP to Yosemite but would like to do the clean up first, maybe update to Yosemite would be a good thing and clean up stuff in the process. Tips much appreciated. Regards Pete -- 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>
