![]() When it turned out (for me) that removing it was impossible, I started smelling a rat. It popped up eon every reboot trying to get me to buy the full version, which I found very intrusive and pushy. It IS possible that I had a virus/malware, etc. I’ll probably never know what happened, but, in the future any SSDs will be name brand to eliminate uncertainty. Since I put the HDD back in (with all the software I added) it’s been running great. Ordinarily I rarely reboot a Mac (I’ve been using Macs since 2000, the power PC days. But after every process I undertook, it looked like it worked, UNTIL I was forced to reboot because the machine was performing like crap or not at all. It’s even possible that using the inbuilt unistall button of the app itself failed because of the SSD, TWICE. It’s possible that my SSD wasn’t deleting, renaming, moving, cleaning the files as I asked them to do. After a while you start to hate it with a passion. ![]() Or like the car Christine, in the movie of the same name. It was, frankly, astonishing, like blowing up a Russian tank and turning around to see it like new from the factory, many times, over the course of 2 days. ![]() But I have never seen an app so thoroughly destroyed, to come back after every reboot like nothing had happened. Like I say it’s possible that the SSD ( a no name EBay purchase) may have been the issue. I get about 16Mbps download, so not too slow. Soon after that the spinning pizza of slowness started appearing for the slightest of tasks like opening the App Store (hardly intensive). It ran fine like that then for some reason I installed CleanMyMac X. Soon after I replaced the HDD with an SSD. I got it like this and added a few programs, mostly music production stuff like sequencers and DAWs. Each one has the disk wiped clean and a new install of the latest OS for the machine, in this case hi Sierra. I bought this machine recently from someone who obtains ex-office Macs in bulk. I agree with you that it’s possible something else is going on.
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