Possible help for slow Macs

[Xairbusdriver]

Several TSers have complained about Yosemite responding/running slowly. <This MacIssues article> suggests some steps that should help, if it is caused by Spotlight. You may not know Spotlight is the cause, but a quick check with Activity Monitor will point the 'fickle finger' and the solution in the article should help. This is a quick read and it could affect older OS versions, as well.

[Highmac]

Thanks for that Jim. T'other 'arf had been complaining about how slow the MBP (Snow Leopard) was running. Waking it from sleep (i.e. lifting the lid) led to it spending anything up to a minute - presumably yawning and stretching - before it would do anything. Completely frozen. Cursor would move but couldn't click on anything. Then it would work, but sluggishly.

Followed the info on that link, repaired permissions - a great many - did a restart and it's whizzing along nicely now.

Apart from printing...

But I'll start a new thread on that