[mac4theblind] Re: start up disk full again
- From: John Panarese <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 22:36:48 -0400
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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