If you have 30GB of hard drive free space, that's plenty of overhead for the system, so I don't think that's the problem. If you get down to under 5GB, then that might cause some problems.
> I have 95G used on my 125G hard drive so that is probably it. I am > considering putting in a 500G hard drive. Could I use the Super Duper backup > to format my new disk with? I also have other backups to Time Machine and WD > software. I checked the Activity Monitor and there was not that much activity > and I believe I have 4G of Ram so that wouldn't be it. I think I could easily > replace the hard drive. > > Nora > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Jonathan Fletcher <li...@fletcherdata.com> > wrote: > I was going to suggest that it might be your hard drive going bad as well. > Other things to check: > > . Full hard drive > . Activity Viewer (in your Utilities folder) to see if there was something > else running that was eating up your processor. Suspects: Flash running in an > open browser window, iTunes store open in iTunes, online backup services such > as Carbonite, BackBlaze, JungleDisk, etc. > . Other accounts running in Fast User Switching > > Basically, I would restart the machine and don't load any programs and look > at Activity Viewer and see if it's something running that you didn't know > about. > > If that doesn't give you any answers, then I am suspecting a hardware issue, > such as a dying hard drive or ram module. There are other, less likely, > possibilities, but those are my first choices. > > BTW, it is NOT a virus. Ain't no such thing. > > j. > > > On Jul 20, 2011, at 2:10 PM, Dan Crutcher <dcrutc...@loumag.com> wrote: > > > A slow-running computer can also be caused by RAM being maxed out, or even > > by a hard drive that has some corruption or is going bad. Did you run Disk > > Utility (Verify and/or Repair) on the drive? In any case, I would be sure I > > had a good backup. Good luck and let us know what you find out. > > > > Dan > > > >> That is the step they made me go through before I could resign onto my > >> account. Not sure I want a phone call every time I want to sign on. I will > >> have to think about that, however it does make sense. I was just shocked > >> to have this happen. So maybe the inconvenience would be worth it. They > >> had me also go into a screen showing sessions on my email account. I could > >> see the China connection as plain as day as one of the sessions. That is > >> when they had me sign out and sign back in under the 2 step verification. > >> I was also forced to change my password to something in the Strong > >> category. > >> > >> By the way, all, my Disk Warrior was NOT frozen. It finally finished. Now > >> I will see if my computer speed improves. I could not believe it would > >> take that long to repair the permissions, but apparently it did. > >> > >> Nora > >> > >> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Rick Burnett <b3stud...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm not aware of any viruses (viri?) that can infect Mac OS X yet, but I > >> highly recommend turning on 2-step authentication in Gmail. It's well > >> worth the extra hassle. > >> > >> > >> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Nora Probasco <nproba...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >> I have an odd situation with my Mac. In the past couple of days it has > >> been running VERY slow. I know that usually means that I need to fix > >> permissions. So when I ran Disk Utility, it said it would take 1 day and 6 > >> hours to do it. I left it on over night and part of an afternoon and it > >> didn't seem to do much. So I closed out of that and ran Diskwarrior having > >> it check files as well as fix permissions. I left it on over night and the > >> next afternoon it seemed to be stuck about 4/5ths through. I closed out > >> and decided to run it again last night. It did the same thing. Otherwise I > >> can do what I want on the computer. What concerns me is that I am afraid > >> this may be a virus. Never having had one I just don't know. I had another > >> strange incident where someone from China hacked into my gmail account and > >> sent many spam email from my account. Gmail froze the account, made me > >> change my password and stopped emails from being sent from that account > >> for 24 hrs. I am wondering if I may have also gotten some virus or > >> something from that as it happened around the same time. I have Virus > >> Barrier which I could activate again, however, I want to make sure that is > >> what it may be. > >> > >> Nora > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> MacGroup mailing list > >> MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu > >> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> MacGroup mailing list > >> MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu > >> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> MacGroup mailing list > >> MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu > >> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > > > > > -- > Jonathan Fletcher > FileMaker 9, 10 & 11 Certified Developer > > Fletcher Data Consulting > jonat...@fletcherdata.com > http://www.fletcherdata.com > 502-509-7137 > > Kentuckiana's FileMaker Users Group > Next meeting: July 26, 12:00 pm to 3:00-ish > Blog: http://www.kyfmp.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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