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[pagani laurent]

I am not talking about the migration period but the weeks after. The machine was always very slow and never recovered. The HD was 500 Gb (filled up to 90%…)


> Le 14 nov. 2017 à 15:24, William H. Magill <magill at mac.com> a écrit :
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>> On Nov 14, 2017, at 8:31 AM, pagani laurent via macports-users <macports-users at lists.macports.org> wrote:
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>> Maybe I am misled by a hidden problem but when I moved from Lion to Sierra for similar reasons (browsers not maintained anymore for 10.7, etc.) I experienced a strong slow down of my machine (MBP, 8 Gb Ram, hard drive). I recovered speed when it died and I moved to a more recent machine with 16Gb and a SSD. So I would cautiously upgrade to Mavericks or Yosemite and stop there if enough in your case.
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> There is a massive amount of conversion work done in the background when you first upgrade to Sierra or High Sierra.
> Allowing the system to chug along for about 24 hours (depending on your disk size) gets rid of the sluggishness.
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> There is a “notification” which pops up warning you of this when you first login after the upgrade, but it is quickly dismissed and forgotten about. :)
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