10 features that slow down the Mac
Macos / / December 25, 2019
1. Spotlight search indexing
Spotlight - Built-in search engine macOS. It helps to find files, folders, applications, calendar events, and email messages.
Spotlight shows the information almost instantly. To this end it is constantly indexes the data and loads the computer. This is especially noticeable when you connect to a Mac external hard drive with a large number of files.
To make sure that your computer is loading the Spotlight, open the app "Monitoring System". Find the process mdworker _spotlight marked in the column "User".
Note the column "% CPU": it indicates how much this possibility of system CPU use right now.
Completely disable Spotlight, you can use the "Terminal". To do this, copy the following command and press Enter.
sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
To restore Spotlight work, copy the "Terminal" command cancels the previous, and press Enter.
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
2. Automatic application launching
third-party application developers want you as much as possible using their creations. Therefore, they try to make their runs automatically after rebooting the system and waited for instructions in the Mac menu bar.
The more background processes, the higher the load on the processor and the slower it copes with active tasks.
To reduce the load, remove applications from the startup. To do this, open "System Preferences", go to "Users and Groups" and select "Login Items."
Here, select the application and click the button with the minus sign.
3. Protecting Data on FileVault disk
FileVault - encryption MacOS. It is necessary to prevent unauthorized access to the data on the boot drive Mac.
When you turn on FileVault, the system creates a disk image, encrypts data and transfers it. Activating the function takes a few minutes to several hours, depending on the productivity of Mac and volume of data on the disk.
After turning on FileVault, any new data encrypted in the background. Feature enhances the safety of using the system, but the load on the processor and slows Mac.
If you are sure that the computer does not fall into the wrong hands, you can disable FileVault. To do this, open "System Preferences", go to "Privacy and Security" section, and then click FileVault.
Here, click on the lock icon in the lower left corner of the window to allow changing the settings. Then select "Turn off FileVault» and wait for the decryption of the data.
4. Creating a Time Machine backups
Time Machine - backup system MacOS. C the help of it you can restore individual files or the entire operating system as a whole.
For Time Machine works using an external hard drive. When you connect it, the system immediately begins to back up. Since it loads the Mac at the wrong time.
To turn off the automatic backup, open "System Preferences", go to the Time Machine menu and uncheck "Create backup copies automatically."
Now you can make backup copies manually when not using a Mac. To do this, click on the Time Machine icon in the menu bar and select the "Create a backup now."
5. File Sharing
If multiple users the local network begin to work together to use the data on your Mac, its performance can be affected prosest.
To avoid unexpected boot the computer at the wrong time, it is better to turn off file sharing.
To do this, open "System Preferences", go to "Sharing" and uncheck the box next to the item "File Sharing."
6. Recognition and grouping of persons in the "Photo"
In macOS Sierra application "Photos" has been able to automatically determine the individual and group photos of him.
If you use the "Photo iCloud», you can be faced with an unexpected decrease in computer performance.
"Photos iCloud» synchronizes photos between iPhone, Mac and other Apple devices. When Mac gets a large number of new photos, the app "Photo" enables automatic indexing to search for persons. Indexing running in the background even if you close the application "Photo". You can turn it off only by "monitoring system".
To verify that the computer boots is indexing "Photo", open the application "System Monitoring" and find the process Photos Agent.
If the problem is there, select the process and click the End key in the upper left corner of the application window.
7. Changing pictures desktop time
Loading the computer may automatically change the pictures, which are used as wallpaper for your desktop every few seconds or minutes.
It is better to turn off this feature and leave one image.
To do this, open "System Preferences", go to "Desktop and Screensaver", choose the "Desktop" and uncheck the box next to the item "Change picture".
8. Visual effects system
If you use the Mac old, whose performance is not enough for the smooth operation of the system, turn it off visual effects animation and transparency.
To do this, open "System Preferences", go to "Universal Access" and select the "Monitor".
Here, check the box next to the items' Zoom movement "and" Reduce transparency. "
9. Animated Effects Dock
To speed up the operation of the system on the old Mac, you can also disable effects Dock.
To do this, open "System Preferences" and go to the Dock menu.
Here, uncheck the items near the "Zoom" and "Animate opening program", select "Simple reduction" in "Clean up in the Dock with the effect."
10. font smoothing
The last thing that can be turned off to speed up the operation of the system on the old Mac - font smoothing.
To do this, open "System Preferences" and go to "General".
Here, uncheck the item near the "Font smoothing (if possible)."
After that, with the low-resolution screens, letters can look angular, but the computer will start to run faster.
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