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