Re: new mac user with two basic questions?
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.
Re: new mac user with two basic questions?
Hi, It can be done by hand but it is unnecessary. According to this Apple article, the maintenance operations are done when the computer wakes from sleep or is turned back on. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2319 Later... On 2011-10-19, at 3:46 AM, Gigi wrote: 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. 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.
new mac user with two basic questions?
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.
Re: new mac user with two basic questions?
Hi: Pages works great! You do not need to defray your mac. No registry keys! On Oct 18, 2011, at 1:49 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. -- 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.
Re: new mac user with two basic questions?
Hi there, it seems my friend Rita means refreshing her mac, something she says she does often when it starts to run slowly? How often do you personally refresh your drive? She says she has been using the disc utility since 2006 for this purpose. thoughts? Karen On Tue, 18 Oct 2011, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote: Hi: Pages works great! You do not need to defray your mac. No registry keys! On Oct 18, 2011, at 1:49 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. -- 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.
Re: new mac user with two basic questions?
I refresh Safari. I've run first aid under disk utility to see if there are errors. I've also gone to the processes to see if something is stuck running, like a print job. I've only been a Mac user for 18 months,so maybe I'm just not understanding her question? On Oct 18, 2011, at 7:45 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: Hi there, it seems my friend Rita means refreshing her mac, something she says she does often when it starts to run slowly? How often do you personally refresh your drive? She says she has been using the disc utility since 2006 for this purpose. thoughts? Karen On Tue, 18 Oct 2011, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote: Hi: Pages works great! You do not need to defray your mac. No registry keys! On Oct 18, 2011, at 1:49 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. -- 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. -- 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.
Re: new mac user with two basic questions?
Dear Karen, I have not done this myself in all the years I have had a Mac except back in the 90's with Disk First Aid. I did open disk Utility and went to Disk Utility Help. Under Disk Repair it tells how to repair the disk. If it is the disk that is also being used as the start up disk, the disk utility is a little limited. Apparently , it is better to run Disk Utility from the original Installation disks if they are available. I hope this helps. Best Regards, Robert -- 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.
Re: new mac user with two basic questions?
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.
Re: new mac user with two basic questions?
hi Tim, everyone. thanks for the wisdom. Rita was seeking the way to reach disc utility and run I imagine first aid. I feel she got the terms confused. I will share again the wisdom bout pages. good download link for the program. ahem, now! Karen who wonders if they still make now or later candy? On Tue, 18 Oct 2011, Tim Kilburn 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.
