At 2:22 PM -0700 6/23/2011, cheryl wrote:
My Quicksilver 2002 is slowing down. I'm getting the spinning beach
ball more and more often. It's really bad on Facebook but it's
happening at other times too. There is often a lag when I type. The
machine is running 10.5 and is a 933 with 896mb of RAM. A 60gig hard
drive. I talked to someone who said my hard drive may be about to
crash. He also said the TV shows I've bought from iTunes could be
slowing it down. I'd appreciate any input you may have.
First, run a Verify Disk pass on your HD(s) using Disk Utility. If
it finds any errors, boot on your OS X DVD and run Disk Utility from
there, and repair the disk(s).
Next, run the three maintenance scripts (daily, weekly, monthly,
they're called) from Apple, then clear your user, system, and kernel
caches, then reboot. Do this all with a free tool such as OnyX.
Note that the reboot after clearing your kernel cache will take quite
a bit longer than normal, because it has to rebuild that cache.
http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english.html
This all won't rule out the possibility of a failing HD. So it's a
good idea to run a full backup. Our fav tool for that is also
free... CarbonCopyCloner
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
HTH,
- Dan.
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