What if you have a MVP and it stays asleep when it is not being used? Do I have to do disk maintance by hand?
Sent from my iPhone On Oct 18, 2011, at 9:34 PM, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@shaw.ca> wrote: > Hi, > > There is no need to defrag a Mac. The Mac does its own optimizing in the > middle of the night, on the weekend and another one once a moth. Just don't > turn off the computer and it will do everything by itself. It doesn't hurt > to go into Disk Utility and do a Repair Disk Permissions once in a while. It > can improve performance if things have got out of whack, once a month is more > then frequent enough. > > With respect to Word Processors, Pages does work fine although there are some > things that can be frustrating, but then again, one can get frustrated with > Word on the PC as well. > > Later... > > On 2011-10-18, at 12:49 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > >> Hi all, >> In fact my friend Rita wishes to join the list. I am including her address >> in the to field hoping a mod can subscribe her. I wrote privately about >> this a while back, but it seems she still cannot join. >> for the moment though I am going to post her questions and share the answers. >> she has snow leopard, 10.6.8, running on a mac mini. >> >> She wants to clean up her disc. Forgive me if this seems strange, but I >> have never read of anyone needing to run defrag on their mac, but such is >> her goal. needful? if so, how is it best done? >> its all mac, no virtual box with windows. >> Her next question is one know that gets asked allot, so think in terms of >> her specific edition of snow leopard. >> best voiceover friendly word processor? I know there is a recent edition of >> open office, how is iworks these days? She is a professional writer, so I >> think needs more than textedit. >> I recall a person posting an entirely different writing program in fact? >> >> Thanks for the house wisdom usual, >> Karen >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
