Macbook Pro running very very slow

[tonybassplayer]

Trying to get the best performance and a few more years out of my MacBook Pro and when checking in "storage" on the chart it shows my hard drive as 500GB with 250.28 GB available of 498.88 GB but the puzzling bit is that there are grey diagonal lines running across the rest of it and when I hover my mouse over it up pops the comment "Other Volumes in Container" and under that is 235.47GB

Is this indicating that my hard drive is not really half full but that something else is occupying the other half perhaps ??

All help gratefully received

Tony

 

[RaphaelSamad]

Tony, I use CleanMyMac to regularly clean out unused files etc. and it works well. After over 5 years of regular use, it has not caused me any problems by deleting stuff that should not have been deleted.
Every time I use it, roughly monthly, it typically cleans up 2 to 10 Gbytes of storage.
Although it is a paid-for App, it might be something worth doing.

 

[Pound Coin]

What does show up for the disk in Disk Utility? That would show you if there were two volumes.

 

[tonybassplayer]

Tony, I use CleanMyMac to regularly clean out unused files etc. and it works well. After over 5 years of regular use, it has not caused me any problems by deleting stuff that should not have been deleted.
Every time I use it, roughly monthly, it typically cleans up 2 to 10 Gbytes of storage.
Although it is a paid-for App, it might be something worth doing.

Many thanks, I will look in to this when it next fires up (havinging a few more issues with it lol)

 

[tonybassplayer]

What does show up for the disk in Disk Utility? That would show you if there were two volumes.

I will try this when it fires up again (see post above lol)

 

[Pound Coin]

I’d try a single user startup and fsck

Shut the machine down.
Restart it and hold down Command and 's' until you see white text on the screen.
When the white text has finished scrolling you’ll see two commands at the bottom.

Type in the first one /sbin/fsck -fy
Press return

When it has finished see if there is a message saying file system has been modified. If so, type it in again until the message says your disk appears ok

The type in the second one

/sbin/mount -uw /
Press return

When that has finished type

reboot
Press return

Your machine will restart, and then check if it is faster.