As a Mac Mini owner, the single best thing to speed up the mini is to
NOT use the internal drive. Move everything to a firewire or usb2
drive. Everything meaning the OS, apps, etc. You will have a huge jump
in speed right away. http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/ has this tip and
others.
Second, max out the memory.
Third, though OS X supposedly does defragmentation on the hard drive,
a good tool like iDefrag or Speedtools can ensure that you have
contiguous space on your drive for temp files, so the hard drive head
isn't moving all over the place.
Forth, keep the system up to date. Honestly, unlike Microsoft, every
recent OS X version has been more and more optimized, so there is a
noticeable speed increase between 10.4 and 10.5, and obviously between
10.5 and 10.6 (if you have an Intel mac to run it on).
On Oct 20, 2009, at 5:47 AM, shirling & neueweise wrote:
hey any tips would be welcome. i'm trying to improve the speed of
finale and my computer, i'm on a mac mini (1.42) and will be
probably for another year or so until i get a fast new machine.
finale 2010 seems a bit more of a hog than 2008, and i really
noticed it on a recent job, a score using metatool-applied shape
expressions, and therefore the shape selection palette had like 7000
(or some other obscene number) copies of various things, mostly
identical (this functioning is one of the things i hate about
finale, just thought you should know).
i have removed many plugins i don't use already, but is there
anything else that can be done to make things run faster? working
in scroll view is supposed to be faster, but i don't find that
working in scroll view works very well, for my needs, since
everything i place on the page is intended to be the final version
and not need to ever be moved, except in the final cleanup of the
score/layout.
is there anything i can disenable, rearrange, switch or whatever to
improve the performance in general of finale?
anything system-related would also be appreciated. i'm cleaning out
the HD and usually try to keep as few apps open as possible while
working on finale. also making an effort to reboot more often, like
at least once a week 8-)
cheers,
jef
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