I've spend time "cleaning up" the Mac as well as tried to keep an eye on the CPU and Memory usage, but they both remain suprising low throughout all the hangups (usually less than 20% CPU usage and no more than 3 gb of RAM used), so the system doesn't seem to be taxed. Opening apps takes quite a while (1 min + for Firefox) and simple tasks like switching windows, clicking on menu items, or opening the spotlight search bar cause the system to beachball for 10-15 seconds before completing the task. In short, my late 2012 iMac has ran pretty slow for a while but recently has become almost unusable. IMac slow to load apps, frequent beach ball for 10-15 seconds Hi all, thanks in advance for the help and I've posted an EtreCheck report below. I ran EtreCheck to see what the problem(s) might be. I don’t run many memory intensive apps, other than Safari and I will admit to having a lot of tabs and windows open simultaneously – pure laziness on my part. My drive is a 1TB Fusion Drive, with about 13% still unused. The last time I reinstalled the OS (High Sierra at the time) was March 2018. I am still running macOS Mojave as I use a few programs that have not been upgraded to work with Catalina. I upgraded my RAM a few years ago from the standard 8GB to the max 32GB. My 27” late 2012 iMac is very sluggish with spinning beach balls and programs taking forever to open. It frequently takes up to 10-minutes, sometimes longer, for my Mac to become useable. It churns away for ages and has a very slow response time when loading programs such as Excel, Word, Safari, Acrobat Reader etc. However, once my Mac has been operating for a while, the performance does seem to improve a bit, but shutting down sometimes takes a while as well – occasionally up to 5-minutes. Any help that can be offered will be much appreciated.
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