On Dec 21, 2005, at 10:11 PM, Lowell Neudeck wrote:
I have an iBook G3 800mHz with OS 10.28. It is three years old and is starting to act slow and a few other oddities. I have rebuilt permissions and run DiskWarrior but still it seems slow and quirky. Somewhere in the long ago, I recall some “expert” stating that every 2 or 3 years, one should backup the hard drive and then reformat it.
Glad you used the quotes, because that was no expert. Have you run one of the various maintenance utilities like Onyx or MacJanitor? If you consisstently leave your mac asleep or off at 3AM, then the system and other unix Log files just continue to grow, to the point where you start seeing these problems.
(or you can geek out and do it in terminal
I am going to install panther on the iBook and am wondering if I should reformat the drive before I do this. Also, will I be able to use the same administrator’s password, etc? In short, is it more trouble than it is worth to reformat the drive?
Do an Archive and Re-install. (select options when you pick which drive to install it in during the installation process; the default will be to Upgrade, you don't want that, but Archive and Re-install)
This keeps all of your user data intact, but gives you a whole new system.
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