Hi
My Macbook Pro has been slowing down recently, but all of a sudden has now become unstable. It hangs badly, especially when waking it up from sleep, or if I click on a link from say an e-mail. Often Safari fails to respond, and I end up quitting and restarting it. Excel, Word, preview etc take a long time to open. I have searched and tried a few things -
Repaired Permissions
Checked Disk Utility
Reset SMC
Reset PRAM
I have also run Bitdefender - it showed nothing
I tried 'Clean my Mac' but did not purchase the full app, simply ran the free version
I have about 165GB of 500GB left free on the disk
It is updated to latest software
Activity monitor shows a shed load of stuff all there - I have no idea what most of it is and I am not confident of deleting any in case it is critical to start up or something and I cause more issues (Kernal Task - WTF )
However I have had it for over 4 years and it has been faultless until recently. I think I might need to wipe it and re-install it, but I am not confident on doing this. I do have a 'time capsule' on my network which is backing up OK. But I am not sure how to do it so that I put it back to how it was. For instance will my e-mails be as they were prior to a reinstall, i.e. will the unread, read, different folders be as they were exactly?
Any help / advice would be gratefully received.
My Macbook Pro has been slowing down recently, but all of a sudden has now become unstable. It hangs badly, especially when waking it up from sleep, or if I click on a link from say an e-mail. Often Safari fails to respond, and I end up quitting and restarting it. Excel, Word, preview etc take a long time to open. I have searched and tried a few things -
Repaired Permissions
Checked Disk Utility
Reset SMC
Reset PRAM
I have also run Bitdefender - it showed nothing
I tried 'Clean my Mac' but did not purchase the full app, simply ran the free version
I have about 165GB of 500GB left free on the disk
It is updated to latest software
Activity monitor shows a shed load of stuff all there - I have no idea what most of it is and I am not confident of deleting any in case it is critical to start up or something and I cause more issues (Kernal Task - WTF )
However I have had it for over 4 years and it has been faultless until recently. I think I might need to wipe it and re-install it, but I am not confident on doing this. I do have a 'time capsule' on my network which is backing up OK. But I am not sure how to do it so that I put it back to how it was. For instance will my e-mails be as they were prior to a reinstall, i.e. will the unread, read, different folders be as they were exactly?
Any help / advice would be gratefully received.