RESQ-MYTECH
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Hi all. I hope this question is OK here... if not could the mod's move it to the correct forum....
OK, iMac A1224. Did have Leopard on it. Now been upgraded to El Capitan. This is the customers machine. I also have in the workshop the same A1224 with El Capitan. I thought the issue I had was limited to my iMac and TBH was not really fussed by it, but I am sure the customer will not be happy. If I attempt to copy a file from one location on the HDD to another on the same HDD it takes a year and a day ( exaggerating slightly as only had the machine for 24 hrs). However it is extremely slow. Example, I have downloaded Firefox, which came down at a fair rate of knots, and opens the .dmg quickly. When attempting to copy the file to the applications folder, it goes slower than the slow boat to China being steered by a snail. Thus far it has been 7 hours ( since last night) and it is still saying " preparing to copy "Firefox"". if I create a file in word and save it to the desktop with no words in the .doc and attempt to copy it to documents it sits and does nothing. just sits and says preparing. The install of El Capitan on my iMac was done via an internet download from the recovery console and the one on the customers iMac is from a USB unscrupulously obtained from eBay, so completely different sources, but both are offering up the same issue. Other than that both machines are performing correctly and at speed. It is just the copying of the files from point A to point B. I have tried what I have found via Google to no avail.... any pointers. Is this an El Capitan thing?
Many thanks in advance.
OK, iMac A1224. Did have Leopard on it. Now been upgraded to El Capitan. This is the customers machine. I also have in the workshop the same A1224 with El Capitan. I thought the issue I had was limited to my iMac and TBH was not really fussed by it, but I am sure the customer will not be happy. If I attempt to copy a file from one location on the HDD to another on the same HDD it takes a year and a day ( exaggerating slightly as only had the machine for 24 hrs). However it is extremely slow. Example, I have downloaded Firefox, which came down at a fair rate of knots, and opens the .dmg quickly. When attempting to copy the file to the applications folder, it goes slower than the slow boat to China being steered by a snail. Thus far it has been 7 hours ( since last night) and it is still saying " preparing to copy "Firefox"". if I create a file in word and save it to the desktop with no words in the .doc and attempt to copy it to documents it sits and does nothing. just sits and says preparing. The install of El Capitan on my iMac was done via an internet download from the recovery console and the one on the customers iMac is from a USB unscrupulously obtained from eBay, so completely different sources, but both are offering up the same issue. Other than that both machines are performing correctly and at speed. It is just the copying of the files from point A to point B. I have tried what I have found via Google to no avail.... any pointers. Is this an El Capitan thing?
Many thanks in advance.