Hello all,
So here’s where I’m at. My wife has a used 4 year old IMac. It was factory restored by me and was slow as a snail for some reason. Clicking “about Mac” took about 20 seconds for the screen to populate if this gives any clue about how slow this computer was. The computer would also tend to hang up for a few minutes after waking up from sleep or loading at the desktop upon login.
I ran Mac pawls latest Mac cleaning app as I heard on YouTube it could possibly help my situation. I ran the program and it seemed to drop loading hang ups and fix the “about Mac” hitch. Performance did noticeably increase. Now around this time I ran the Mac OS Mojave update. Now, I am out of state for a looooong time and apple Is throwing an error upon launching the photos app in the dock. My wife tried running the photo app repair command and that didn’t work. The app seems to offfer a restore point (the day of the OS upgrade/Mac cleaner run) and that didn’t work. I told her to launch time machine and that only seemed to offer to run a back up rather than restore. The photos app is sized at around 80Gb so I know there’s photos in there somewhere, what can I do at this point? My wife is furious and I’m not even there to help troubleshoot. She spent a lot of hours gathering photos to this computer but we never took the time to run a backup (due to personal reasons being extremely overwhelmed lately).
What can we try here?
Thanks in advance, anything is appreciated at this point.
- Jameson
So here’s where I’m at. My wife has a used 4 year old IMac. It was factory restored by me and was slow as a snail for some reason. Clicking “about Mac” took about 20 seconds for the screen to populate if this gives any clue about how slow this computer was. The computer would also tend to hang up for a few minutes after waking up from sleep or loading at the desktop upon login.
I ran Mac pawls latest Mac cleaning app as I heard on YouTube it could possibly help my situation. I ran the program and it seemed to drop loading hang ups and fix the “about Mac” hitch. Performance did noticeably increase. Now around this time I ran the Mac OS Mojave update. Now, I am out of state for a looooong time and apple Is throwing an error upon launching the photos app in the dock. My wife tried running the photo app repair command and that didn’t work. The app seems to offfer a restore point (the day of the OS upgrade/Mac cleaner run) and that didn’t work. I told her to launch time machine and that only seemed to offer to run a back up rather than restore. The photos app is sized at around 80Gb so I know there’s photos in there somewhere, what can I do at this point? My wife is furious and I’m not even there to help troubleshoot. She spent a lot of hours gathering photos to this computer but we never took the time to run a backup (due to personal reasons being extremely overwhelmed lately).
What can we try here?
Thanks in advance, anything is appreciated at this point.
- Jameson