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