[mac4theblind] Re: start up disk full again
- From: Sarah Alawami <marrie12@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:51:33 -0700
Well I ran onyx and it does not seem to have worked. I also ran a repair disk
and an disk utility and no go. I also repaired permitions. it sucks tha tonly
files under 20 mb are defraged. My work has to have me work with files that are
hundreds of mb big and sometimes even about a gig for a whole project.
Take care.
On Mar 17, 2011, at 8:14 PM, John Panarese wrote:
> Keep us posted, Sarah. When all else fails, a call to Apple support or a
> visit to an Apple Store is always an option as well.
>
> 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 11:12 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
>
>> I also run cached out. spelled it wrong but for those that need something
>> else it's a good good tool. I'll try onyx and see if it fixes it. Maybe the
>> third time will be a chrm. I'm frustrated by tghis!
>> On Mar 17, 2011, at 7:50 PM, John Panarese wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE
>>> MAC VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT
>>>
>>> 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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