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I've since gone to Catalina and have the following issues Ģ) This is usually accompanied by general sluggishness/decrease in responsiveness. Quick, responsive just took whatever I threw at it no problems. Long story short, I'm a long time PC user who moved to Mac last year. Really hoping someone can offer some insight here. Apps open slower (multiple bounces in the dock and videos on VLC stop playing (pause) while apps open, even when there are only minimal apps open.Īny help with this as to why it may be happening and what to do to resolve it would be great.Ģ017 MBP 16GB is really sluggish and loud after Catalina Hey everyone.

I'm not sure if they are related to my sluggish performance, but this feels slower than my 2010 i7 with SSD and 2TB HDD. My user information for TV (815.4GB) and Documents (125.67GB) etc which are physically held on the second drive are reflected as being on the Macintosh HD. When I look at 'About this mac' it attributes way too much storage to the fusion drive, which only holds 50GB. This 'books' process starts taking up ridiculous amounts of RAM. If I reopen 'About this mac' and select storage, the process 'Books' will open, but the app does not. I close the process Books (which does not appear as an open application in the dock) & leave activity monitor open but close about this mac. When I open activity monitor under Memory it shows the culprit as Books. When I open 'About this mac' I notice a slow down. Disk health on both is excellent with DriveDX. On my second external drive I have my user folder and have 2.53 TB of 4TB free. I only use the fusion drive for apps and have 948GB of 1.03 TB free, so I've only used about 50GB on this drive. I have an externally connected 4TB Western Digital drive, connected by USB C.

I have a 27 inch 2019 5k iMac, 16GB Ram, Fusion Drive, 3.1 Ghz i5, 575X 4GB, running Catalina 10.15.2.

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