2012 Mac Mini getting annoyingly slow.

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IHMO, the chances of a bad drive is .0000001% and malware .00000000000000000000000000000000000000001%

Spinning beach balls when? browsing the web? opening 50 photoshop files? 3 browsers and 30 tabs? browsing the finder?

Narrowing down *when* it slow downs could really help diagnose the problem.

Just running random blanket fixes seems like stabbing the dark.