urgent help needed Mac issues

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Hi all

Having a major meltdown with my Mac, when uploading pictures its become painfully slow, both in iPhoto and LR. used to take seconds per picture now around 30 seconds a jpeg. Theres hardly any memory being used as everything on a external drive now. its also painfully slow to type this as im uploading pictures as i speak as have shot a paid mx event today and have around 1000 images to get ready for clients so im pulling my hair out now and cant type more than a few words without out it stalling and the beach ball spinning, although its ok when not uploading the photos..

tried different cards/cameras/leads all the same issue..

Help or advice urgently needed on this one please :bang:
 
Yes sorry was in a flap, yep when uploading from the camera to the mac.

Finally got them all on the computer, found iPhoto keep crashing giving a blank black screen when selecting random photos and when loading from iPhoto to hard drive decided it didn't like a random image and kept crashing again
 
Harry, get yourself along to your nearest apple store in the morning... the Genius bar will be able to check your mac and get it sorted.

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Sounds as if something is using a lot of memory or hogging the cpu. Run activity monitor which will bring up all the pieces of software being used (some will be system files) and see if there is anything using a lot of CPU % or memory, and then you have the option of quitting that piece of software.
 
thanks will check the genius bar

looked at the CPU on activity monitor and most are on zero with a few saying less than 1 percent but it seems to keep moving while a look at it but as i say nothing looking like its using much of the CPU :/
 
Thanks ill take a look

oddly with the photo uploading issue it seemed to speed up the more of the pictures that uploaded and certainly quicker if say uploading 100 against 500.
 
Sounds like a quick "repair Permissions" on the hard drive is in order.
Disk Utility -> click on your hard drive then "repair disk permissions".

If that does not help you may need to repair the hard drive. If you are running 10.7 or 10.8 hold cmd-r on start-up to boot into recovery mode. Then launch Disk Utility, click on your hard drive and then "repair disk". If you are running a system earlier than 10.7 you will need to boot up using the DVD/CD that came with your Mac and then run Disk Utility from the DVD/CD.

Good Luck.

In Activity Monitor you can click at the top of each column to sort by that column. Click "%CPU" at the top of the window to sort by CPU usage. If you select the button "System Memory" near the bottom of the window you can see if there is any "Swap used" if there is you might be running out of RAM and the system is paging out to the hard drive - this can be really slow!
 
Thanks

had a look and with LR running and iphoto plus a few web pages up, the swap out was 500 mb but started slowly dropping, then with everything off except activity monitor it started dropping down and stopped at 78 mb
 
How much RAM have you got?

I have 8GB in my MacBook Pro and that seems fine, though I use Aperture not LR. My Mac mini only has 2GB and it can really struggle at times.
 
i have 4gb but was fine for months and had way more photos on it back then, just recently started acting up. i have a suspicion its iphoto causing it as everything else is running fine
I have rebuilt iPhoto but still seems slow even when scrolling from pic to pic when editing :\
 
suggs said:
Thanks

had a look and with LR running and iphoto plus a few web pages up, the swap out was 500 mb but started slowly dropping, then with everything off except activity monitor it started dropping down and stopped at 78 mb
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totally out of RAM.

Stick in 16GB or at the very least 8GB for the start. Also download Free RAM app from the store and clear it when it gets close to full.
 
Hi Thanks

seems a lot of memory is being stacked up in the inactive file, ive just typed purge in to terminal and its freed most of it back up. will see if that helps as think im on the max Ram at 4gb on this machine..
 
suggs said:
Hi Thanks

seems a lot of memory is being stacked up in the inactive file, ive just typed purge in to terminal and its freed most of it back up. will see if that helps as think im on the max Ram at 4gb on this machine..
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play some ebay games if new one is too much. Something like 2009 MBP will swallow at least 8GB easily.
I'll probably do the same to my backup '07 MBP if I don't buy retina this year.
 
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