What that excatly means folder(s) with the prohibitory symbol? Should I be worry and it is possible that those folders may slow down the Mini MAC performance?
Any ideas and any suggestion?
Thank you.
Martin
Mac mini, macOS 10.13
There's better ways to approach this. Those folders are locked precisely because people try to do that, then hose their system and blame Apple for it.
Run this analyzer and post the results here:
Etrecheck - http://www.etrecheck.com/
See http://www.etrecheck.com/faq for information about the basic version which is free and how to upgrade this to a power user version.
Using Etrecheck - https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6174
Extra tips about settings to have it check all parts of your computer, and how to post long reports to the Apple Support Communities window: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250599211?answerId=251149996022#251149996022
In this era of solid state drives, a full drive should not noticeably slow down a computer because file access is essentially instantaneous. More likely is your Mini with High Sierra is an old machine, possibly with too little RAM, a conventional HDD instead of a SSD. It is probably running the highest macOS it possibly can which is putting a lot of pressure on the machine. Your machine probably hasn't slowed down, it is everything else that has sped up.
There's better ways to approach this. Those folders are locked precisely because people try to do that, then hose their system and blame Apple for it.
Run this analyzer and post the results here:
Etrecheck - http://www.etrecheck.com/
See http://www.etrecheck.com/faq for information about the basic version which is free and how to upgrade this to a power user version.
Using Etrecheck - https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6174
Extra tips about settings to have it check all parts of your computer, and how to post long reports to the Apple Support Communities window: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250599211?answerId=251149996022#251149996022
In this era of solid state drives, a full drive should not noticeably slow down a computer because file access is essentially instantaneous. More likely is your Mini with High Sierra is an old machine, possibly with too little RAM, a conventional HDD instead of a SSD. It is probably running the highest macOS it possibly can which is putting a lot of pressure on the machine. Your machine probably hasn't slowed down, it is everything else that has sped up.
Those appear to be system folders that are locked to prevent users from going in and doing something they think will do something like free up storage but will really end up in their crashing their computer system.
Leave them be.
Thank you.
I am looking for duplicate files because my MiniMac slows down, thus I am cleaning what I can.
Martin
A folder(s) with the prohibitory symbol? What that excatly means?
