Four year old Mac. Takes forever to load anything. The top header doesn’t show time, battery,etc. At one time the date was displayed as July 19.
Per Activity Monitor, CPU has identityservicesd at 100%.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
What OS version?
Unknown. I clicked on About this Mac to get the OS, waited 30 minutes and it still hasn’t opened. It should be the latest version.
Finally displayed. OS X Yosemite 10.10.1.
Do the update to 10.10.3 and report back.
There are a smattering of reports on the web that says that this issue was fixed in 10.10.2
10.10.3 installed. Took forever. Lots of apps not responding, and a lot of spinning beach balls.
Idservicesd no longer appears on activity monitor. But, she is still very slow.
Let it finish indexing.
How much RAM do you have? Anything less that 4GB is too little these days.
I replaced my hard drive with a SSD drive and the performance boost was amazing. Assuming there are no underlying problems, this is something I’d highly recommend.
If you have a Time Machine backup, you can create a bootable USB key to install the base OS and restore. It was fairly easy.
Did you do this yourself? If not, how much storage did your SSD have, and how much did the whole thing cost (labor and materials)?
I’ve done this on many machines.
a 500GB SSD is around $200 these days.
Labor is just your time (an hour to install, but several hours to backup and restore).
RAM is 4gb.
I don’t know how long the indexing takes. Or if it is even doing that.
Having serious withdrawal without the Mac. May have to take the 2 hour bus ride to the Apple service center. Thank you for the replies Beowulf!
I know people are trying to help, but 30+ minute waits to open “About this Mac” aren’t a slow hard drive, lack of RAM, or Spotlight indexing–especially on a machine that’s only four years old. That level of delay isn’t a minor optimization issue – it’s something fundamentally wrong with the system – a hard drive that’s completely full or about to fail, malware, some runaway high priority app that’s not leaving any resources behind, or something similar.
If you can afford to lose what’s on it (i.e. it’s a secondary machine or some such), the easiest thing to try next is to wipe the drive and re-install the system. If not, booting from the recovery partition (“R” while booting the machine) can at least give you a hint as to whether it’s hardware related or not (the recovery partition is effectively a separate OS install, so if you can do “about this Mac” and other stuff from it with reasonable response, that indicates a software problem). The Apple store guys can help narrow it down if you can get it in to them.
If that’s not an option either and you have a lot of empty disk space, use Disk Utility from the recovery boot to split your hard drive into two partitions, install the OS into the “new” one to make a clean system, and use “Startup Disk” in System Preferences to make the new system the default boot. Assuming it doesn’t show the same problems, you can copy applications over one at a time from the old partition to the new one (it’s a Mac, so you can just copy non-App-Store apps, and for App Store ones, just re-install from the store). Your files and data will still be available on the other partition, which will appear to the system as a second drive.
I agree, it’s a serious problem. Given the situation, it might be smarter to bring it into the nearest Apple Store and ask for help. Do a backup of your data before you do anything else including bringing the system into the Apple Store. It could be a hardware problem and simply moving the system might cause it to fail where you can’t boot it up to do a recovery of your data.
After four days of “indexing”, zee Mac wurks!
Mil gracias beowulff! You mentioned the 10.10.3 version. I downloaded it. Nada. You mentioned “let it finish indexing”. Then the Mac did four days of “indexing”. I kept it open. And everyday, it was remembering its mission. More and more. Everything is beautiful! You want proof? I am writing this reply on the Mac! Everything is normal. Maybe better.
Gracias everyone! This MB rocks!
Wow.
Glad that it’s working, but, 4 days!
That’s way too long, so please, please have a good backup in case the hard drive is ready to shuffle off it’s metallic coil…
Gracias. I have a visit to the USofA next month. A SSD is on my bucket list. I hope the rascal can hang in there.