[mac4theblind] Re: start up disk full again
- From: Sarah Alawami <marrie12@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:47:00 -0700
I checked all of this and it seems to be speeding up slowly but this is getting
rediculous. I have not yet run permitions again. well I did a few weeks ago but
I need to get back inthe habit. I wonder what onyx will do for me lol! that is
a pretty good suite of stuff to fun.
On Mar 17, 2011, at 7:36 PM, John Panarese wrote:
> Honestly, this shouldn't be happening with a Mac. You are not using that
> much disk space.
>
> Other ideas would be running a disk permissions check from Utilities off
> of your install disk. Also, check activity monitor to see if anything is
> running that you are not aware of. Check to see if you have anything
> starting up with the system in your login area of system preferences under
> Accounts.
>
> Take Care
>
> John D. Panarese
> Director
> Mac for the Blind
> john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> http://www.macfortheblind.com
>
> AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE
> MAC VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT
>
> On Mar 17, 2011, at 10:25 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
>
>> I disabled the dash board as I don't know how to use it. I have 4 gigs of
>> ram on this thing and I do empty my trash. the last time I repaired
>> permitions it worked, for about 10 minutes and then it went back to
>> slowness. that was a few months ago when this happened.
>> On Mar 17, 2011, at 7:04 PM, John Panarese wrote:
>>
>>> Well, you can try running permissions first. See if that helps. Also,
>>> make sure you don't have anything eating your processor power. It's not as
>>> big a deal on a Mac, but how much RAM to you have? Also, make sure you
>>> empty the trash and you don't have open widgets running in background.
>>>
>>> Take Care
>>>
>>> John D. Panarese
>>> Director
>>> Mac for the Blind
>>> john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> http://www.macfortheblind.com
>>>
>>> AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE
>>> MAC VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT
>>>
>>> On Mar 17, 2011, at 10:01 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
>>>
>>>> Most of my stuff is projects I do for other people that are huge up to 3
>>>> or 4 gigs in size. OH fun! but yeah this is ridiculous. I thought that
>>>> it would have defraged itself by now but I'l be patient.
>>>> On Mar 17, 2011, at 6:15 PM, John Panarese wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> That's a lot of downloaded material. Yes, an external drive to back it
>>>>> all up and also eliminating anything not important. I have had my MBP
>>>>> for two years and I haven't filled forty percent of the HD yet.
>>>>>
>>>>> Take Care
>>>>>
>>>>> John D. Panarese
>>>>> Director
>>>>> Mac for the Blind
>>>>> john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>> http://www.macfortheblind.com
>>>>>
>>>>> AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE
>>>>> MAC VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mar 17, 2011, at 8:40 PM, Bubba wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Yep that was what I thought. This person must really have a lot of stuff
>>>>>> on
>>>>>> her HD. It might be time to get a external HD.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sign,
>>>>>> Bubba
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: mac4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>> [mailto:mac4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Panarese
>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 7:43 PM
>>>>>> To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>> Subject: [mac4theblind] Re: start up disk full again
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You mean your actual hard drive? How did you fill it up so much? A
>>>>>> drive filling up shouldn't slow a system down until you have really
>>>>>> filled
>>>>>> it beyond 75 percent capasity from personal experience.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Take Care
>>>>>>
>>>>>> John D. Panarese
>>>>>> Director
>>>>>> Mac for the Blind
>>>>>> john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>> http://www.macfortheblind.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>> AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC VOICEOVER TRAINING AND
>>>>>> SUPPORT
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mar 17, 2011, at 7:32 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I mean at the time my start up disk was a 0 kb and before then
>>>>>>> everythign
>>>>>> was slowing down to a crawl well finder and mail mainly. Now I'm at 91
>>>>>> or
>>>>>> so out of 250 gigs free and everythign is still slow.
>>>>>>> On Mar 17, 2011, at 4:23 PM, John Panarese wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What do you mean by full startup disk?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Take Care
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> John D. Panarese
>>>>>>>> Director
>>>>>>>> Mac for the Blind
>>>>>>>> john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>>>> http://www.macfortheblind.com
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC VOICEOVER TRAINING AND
>>>>>>>> SUPPORT
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Mar 17, 2011, at 5:53 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Ok once again I have a full start up disk. If I clear at least half of
>>>>>> that my mail and finder are still as slow as ever in rendering tables and
>>>>>> stuff in the message list views and in list mode in finder. How can I
>>>>>> make
>>>>>> things faster with out reinstalling? I don't want to go that rout. Not
>>>>>> again. I have too much to focus on this week with mid terms coming up.
>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> update: I've now freed up to 93 gigs of space but the darned thing is
>>>>>> still slow especially in the mail program at rendering the table for my
>>>>>> messages when I'm done reading a few. How can I fix this?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Sarah Alawami
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> If you need an edit done on a small project go to
>>>>>> http://music.marrie.org/master.html for more info. If you need to
>>>>>> contact me
>>>>>> my info is below.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> MSN and AIM: marrie12@xxxxxxxxx
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> website: http://music.marrie.org
>>>>>>>>> Podcast: http://marrie.podbean.com
>>>>>>>>> youtube: http://youtube.com/marrie125
>>>>>>>>>
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