Wibu Codemeter Stick

[Edward]

HelloI own both an iMac quad core 3.2 gHz and also a bought used good as new advertised Mac Pro 2.7 gHz 12 core black cylindrical tower upgraded to 16 gigs of RAM from the standard 8 gigs and I am experiencing massive performance issues with my music applications. The time to render and process my projects is almost equal usually to the time my projects take to render and process my projects on the iMac that I own. I purchased a benchmark application that indicates everything is running nearly top notch compared to all the other peoples Mac Pro 12 core 2.7 gHz benchmarks with the latest version of an app called Geekbench. The only thing that ran with a hitch was the RAM and that may have kicked my Geekbench score 4,000 points lower than the highest scored 2013 Mac Pro on Geekbench.

Can someone tell me how in the world my system is only operating like a $1,699 dollar iMac? I also have a 2 terabyte Solid State drive that I installed in myself I got with it and when I do things like app installs to the SSD drive and also file copy/pasting from folder to folder it goes fast a little and then stunts sometimes and sometimes makes leaps.

Something made all of my digital audio workstation processing and rendering iMac speed and my file handling slow and then fast on occasion and on occasion only slow. Any ideas for me? I purchased the computer on credit on eBay as a used item and feel I probably would've by far preferred to get an iMac Pro on the best available budget.

Okay here is my report. It's looking like I have some unremovable undesirable extra's that make life harder. I closely analyzed the text and read everything and there are too many things my Mac Pro loads it seems like. Here's the whole text, I'm logically comfortable sharing it in the event anyone can somehow assist me to get rid of all the crapola on it that I don't want. Truth doesn't quit truth is like a blindside. Paranioa is logically healthy. I am double blind to truth known because truth doesn't quit and remains a blindside. -S.A.A.78 Any assistance with cutting out the crapola will be appreciated.

I do not like that Time Machine is not configured, unless you are using another Backup method AND are doing Backups on a regular basis.Time Machine is not the world's best Backup program for everyone, but it is the Backup that gets done, and will be there when you need it.

I also do not like you using a backup partition on the same drive as your regular boot partition. A failure of the boot drive could easily take out both copies. Having your Backup on a completely different drive is preferable.

As long as the iMac has 'more than 4GB' of RAM, I would expect it to be faster than the Mac Pro for most work, because it has a faster clock speed and more than two processor cores. That is because using more than a handful of processor cores for ordinary work is a classic 'Unsolved Problem' in Computer Science.

Unless the workflow has been hand-tooled for many processors, there is only so much parallelism you can coax from ordinary workflows. Sound production needs fast drives, but it does not generally benefit from many processors. Now if you were encoding video with Compressor, you would be thrilled with that 12-core processing power. If you were applying filters that required GPU computation, you would be thrilled with the GPU computation power.

I just purchased and re-formatted a Western Digital, "My Passport" two days ago and the laptop would not recognize my external monitor. I loaded Utilities while still in the OS and fixed permissions it was pretty much all my external monitor maybe four pages of it.

So now, QuickTime and iTunes play for a minute then stop for about 20 seconds then resume for a bit then stop as if it is compiling or loading the song. I'm kinda afraid to use Logic or Reason or any other software on my machine. I running OS 7.5 and haven't updated anything in a few years and don't want to would be a serious money train to do this. Also it ran exactly as I needed it to. Stable and zero problems, until now, so I'm pretty this is it.

I re-booted holding Command R to get to the OS recovery partition and when I repaired the disk there were pages of iTunes fixes and more display fixes. I also noticed that I had a new drive called "mb wibu - codemeter-stick media" which was installed without my knowing it and is invisible in the normal OS. Would not have known it was there had I not booted from the Utilities app. There is no info on the box, or any info in the pamphlet, nor in the read me docs or the pdf. Just instructions to re-format for Mac OS. I have 4 storage drives and it was always plug it in, format it, fill it and use it, no probs till now. So how does one get rid of this shight ?

I just wanted a drive to copy my music and other files for when I work away from home. I'm getting really fed up with corporations waltzing into my Computer/home and re-arranging **** and adding "security" systems and probably cameras and microphones for my own good. After what I have seen and heard over the last ten years (I've earned my cynicism) it makes me wonder if this drive called "My Passport" is really some corporations "passport" into my life.

the solution for a poster above was to download and run etrecheck, and post its report back here. That may be the solution for you as well, But PLEASE start a new Thread, your issues have almost nothing to do with the issues on this thread,

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