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
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 wrote:
> I have an odd situation with my Mac. In the past couple of days it has
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
a
Nora,
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.
On Jul 20, 2011, at 12:09 PM, Nora Probasco 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.
I know I've pontificated about this before, but I'll say it again: What's the
big deal
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, iTune
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
Nora,
Been watching the thread on this but was out and couldn't respond. Yes you
may have a problem with Firefox, you may have a hardware problem developing but
your symptoms I experience quite often on the one machine that is the work
horse.
To cure the problem it is like Lee says, it's n
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
John,
I rebuilt the directory as you suggested. I also turned off a couple of the
extensions in Firefox and everything is running really well now. I think
that may have done the trick. Will see how it does over the next few days.
Nora
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 4:31 PM, John Robinson wrote:
> Nora
Great news Nora, I can't stress this enough it has worked wonders for my
machines. They get so flaky, have enough spinning balls to throw a beach party
and after a directory rebuild they are like a new machine, it's unbelievable.
There are always many errors found, and I have a TimeMachine ba
On Jul 20, 2011, at 9:39 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote:
> How do you disable the extensions in FF?
[Sorry for my earlier transgression of not renaming my digest subject line.]
It looks like Nora figured it out but, for Harry, a present:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=disable+firefox+extensions
::-)
I cannot believe the difference in the performance of my Mac since I rebuilt
the directory. I plan to rebuild the directories in my other 3 portable
drives too. Also, turning off some of the extensions that I don't use made
Firefox work normal again. I get the beach ball sometimes but for short
per
Nora,
So glad this helped but you won't need to do it each month. I doubt you have
ever done it and just now your machine was getting problematic. You will
begin to notice the applications taking a long time to load and quit, you'll
see more spinning balls and who knows maybe 6 months down t
John,
It actually didn't confuse DW as it put a screen asking which drive I wanted
to rebuild the directory for. I was impressed at how well it worked. I also
used it to fix permissions. By the way, do I need to fix permissions on the
other disks, especially since the Super Duper disk is copying t
Nora,
Lee says you don't really need to worry about repairing permissions and I trust
him completely. If you do maintenance by rebuilding the directory every so
often you might go ahead and do it then since it is also one of the things
DiskWarrior will do, otherwise it probably isn't necessary
On Jul 22, 2011, at 11:34 AM, John Robinson wrote:
> Lee says you don't really need to worry about repairing permissions and I
> trust him completely.
Now that is an unwise thing to do.
I don’t say that you should never repair permissions; I just say it's unlikely
to cure problems. If it make
Lee,
Now that makes sense. From now on it is only rebuilding the directories for
me. I am still amazed at the major improvement in my computer's speed. Even
ol' Firefox is operating nicely. Computers are wonderful when they work
properly!
Nora
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Lee Larson wrote:
Nora,
You are running a MacBook Pro, right? What version of DW are you using
on it?
TIA,
Jane
On 7/22/11 10:43 AM, Nora Probasco wrote:
John,
It actually didn't confuse DW as it put a screen asking which drive I
wanted to rebuild the directory for. I was impressed at how well it
worked. I
Jane,
I have two versions of DW, the reason being the boot sector. I have had some
Mac's that will boot fine under their previous version, then I have two that
will only boot under their newer version. When I discovered the problem I
called to find that Apple changed the location of the boot
Jane,
My version is 4.1.1 of Disk Warrior.
Nora
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:47 PM, J. Blake wrote:
> **
> Nora,
>
> You are running a MacBook Pro, right? What version of DW are you using on
> it?
> TIA,
> Jane
>
>
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