[mac4theblind] Re: start up disk full again

    That is a good application.  There are utilities in there worth running and 
scheduling.  Clearing the cache and such.  I use Cocktail, but it's the same 
thing.

    I'd still run a disk permissions repair off of your install disk for the 
heck of it as well.

Take Care

John D. Panarese
Director
Mac for the Blind
john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.macfortheblind.com

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On Mar 17, 2011, at 10:47 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:

> 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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