Crap! Installed Tiger-now my Mac is running slow

[Lorien]

VERY slow, in fact. My previous OS was 10.1. I think I screwed up somewhere. Anyone else dealing with this?

[benburch]

1. It might run slow at first...

I believe it has to index all of your disks for the new search feature.

[Lorien]

3. It's been like this for 24 hours

I can't even grab and move an icon on my desktop two inches without getting the Spinning Beachball of Death for a solid minute. Damn.

[benburch]

4. That's not right.

I suggest calling Apple tech support!

[emulatorloo]

2. No it made my mac FASTER

Seriously, I was running Panther 10.3 before, and now much faster booting and user interface etc.

You should have 30 days of tech support. . .call Apple and get this straightened out. there should be a card in the box w a number/

[emulatorloo]

5. Here is one thing to try before you call tech support - Repair Permissions

Try Repairing Permissions on you hard drive.

Open "Disk Utility" -- it is in the utilities folder inside your applications folder.

Launch it.

Select your drive.

There will be a button that says "Repair Disk Permissions."

Click it.

Let Disk Utility do its thing. quit, restart your machine and see if it makes a difference.

Let us know what happens.


If you want to know what "Repair Permissions" means go here.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106712

[Lorien]

6. I just followed your instructions

it does seem faster with what little I've done with it in the past few minutes-Thanks!! I'll post again at the end of the day to let you know how it did.

:hi:

[mrbassman03]

7. Did you do an upgrade? Or a clean install?

I would recommend backing up all your files, either on CD or an external drive (much easier) and then reinstalling Tiger doing a clean installation. You choose this by hitting the options button when it comes up during the installation. Then just copy all the stuff you need back to the comp.

[politicat]

8. Definitely do this if you're dual booting....

Let's just say that Yellow Dogs and Tigers don't play well together.