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Speed-up tips appreciated
l a g g i n g
Speed-up tips appreciated
If you have a lot of icons, documents, etc., on your desktop, clean it up. OS X treats each and everyone of them as an application. Put them into a folder on your home folder on your hard drive labeled as Desktop stuff and then make Aliases of the stuff you really want on your desktop. Aliases are not treated as applications. You will be surprised at how much this will speed things up.
Repair permissions. That's in Applictions/Utilities/Disk Utility and click on the Hard drive and then select Repair Permissions. It will do it automatically. It may take a few minutes up to a half an hour. . . but that can speed up things also.
Go into console also in Utilities and check the various error messages. . . see if something is wrong there. Clear the messages.
Check your Activity monitor also in Utilities and click on the CPU % and see if anything is taking an inordinate amount of your CPU attention. See what it is. . . and if you really think it is something you recognize.
IMHO the fallacy is in thinking of the price of a computer as entitling you to use that computer in perpetuity. You should think of it more as a lease.That logic especially applies to hard drives; you should understand that
So it makes no sense to think of cleaning up a hard drive when it gets full - the logical thing to do is to just buy new.
- Hard drives don’t live forever, and
- Hard drives get bigger (for the same price) over time.
Same thing with your ‘outer. You can’t run new OS X versions on ancient machines; that’s just a fact of life.
I wish Apple would just provide software to make old G4 boxen into dumb terminals - and enable the user to use a Mac mini to run OS X and the apps, feeding into your “dumb” terminal. Probably it doesn’t make economic sense, really - but at least if that combination were on offer, you would feel better about the fact that your old, “perfectly good” Mac can’t be upgraded.