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 >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> > >