S L O W Leopard - no more!

Problem solved. I did an disk erase and re-install of Snow Leopard and now normal (fast) speed has been restored. Wonderful. Thanks for those who offered advice. Lloyd -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - Guidelines

Re: S L O W Leopard Cruzer U3 files

Hi Lloyd, Delete and empty the trash of any "U3 Cruzer Utilities for Mac" you used to remove U3 software from the SanDisk left on your Mac. Otherwise they can be a nuisance also. Unfortunately, I agree that a total clean install of Snow Leopard might be required. Your Snow Leopard Mac should n

Re: S L O W Leopard Cruzer U3 files

Mission completed. Following the instructions as given below by Ronni I have removed the U3 files. Just to demonstrate how slow my s n o w Leopard is, when I inserted the Cruzer in my old Tiger Mac it appeared within 2 seconds as against 2 minutes on my Leopard. I think a re-install is on tonight!

Re: S L O W Leopard

On 05/01/2010, at 4:15 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > U3 is utility bundled with SanDisk’s USB flash drives. It steals away > megabytes of space to store Windows apps and then launches itself when > inserted into a Windows PC. At best, this is annoying for Windows users and a > waste of flash drive

Re: S L O W Leopard

Follow the instructions to remove carefully. Cheers Sent from Ronni's iPhone On 05/01/2010, at 4:49 PM, Lloyd White wrote: Thanks Ronni, I do have another Mac running Tiger so I will use that to remove the offending files. Lloyd Sorry Guys, It's been a long hard day, but that is no

Re: S L O W Leopard

Thanks Ronni, I do have another Mac running Tiger so I will use that to remove the offending files. Lloyd > Sorry Guys, > > It's been a long hard day, but that is no excuse. > > The Mac Version "U3 Cruzer Utilities for Mac" which has a ³Launchpad Removal > Tool for Mac³. > Works in OSX10

Re: S L O W Leopard

Sorry Guys, It's been a long hard day, but that is no excuse. The Mac Version "U3 Cruzer Utilities for Mac" which has a “Launchpad Removal Tool for Mac“. Works in OSX10.4, AND OSX10.5 Leopard ... So Option 1. S

Re: S L O W Leopard

Hi Michael & Lloyd, How to get rid of the useless but annoying U3 files on a SanDisk. As Lloyd has found out, it's not a good idea to ignore U3, because every time you mount the thumb drive it will mount 2 partitions - yours and the U3. In order to eject the drive, you must unmount BOTH partitio

Re: S L O W Leopard

Hi Lloyd, Just on the Sandisk Cruzer. The Sandisk CD will stay there. As far as I'm aware it has to be formatted with Windows software or through their website which only works with Windows, to get rid of this partition. This used to be the case and by the sounds of it, still i

Re: S L O W Leopard

Hi James & Ronnie, Thanks for all this info. I rebooted in Safe Mode. My USB thumb drives then refused to show up at all, nor did the ext drives. But I think the computer was marginally faster. The two Google sites took roughly the same time but I had to move the cursor to make the site open fu

Re: S L O W Leopard

Hi Lloyd, Your computer is unwell. It should never be that slow, regardless of OS. You have the option of starting up in Safe Mode which is quite limited but turns of any optional plug-ins. At the end of this e-mail, can I

Re: S L O W Leopard

Hi Ronnie, Thanks for your continued support. iMac HD 500 GB -388 available. 4 Gb memory (2+2) OS 10.6.2 I don't think Rosetta is installed - can't find it. No programs have asked for it. The Console shows hundreds of messages in the last few days. All sorts of errors and failures to do with

Re: S L O W Leopard

Hi Lloyd, What are the specifications of your Mac? How full is the hard drive? How much memory is installed? Are you running OSX programs or those that require the use of Rosetta? 1. The most obvious is check Activity Monitor for signs of applications or utilities that may be chewing up CPU t

Re: S L O W Leopard

Hi Ronni, Thanks for your help. I checked the Activity monitor and nothing seemed to be taking too big a percentage. Nothing is taking more than 0.8% of CPU. The largest items of Real Memory are 148 MB for Earth Desk Core, 109 MB for iClip, 70MB for Entourage and 30 MB for URL Manager. But I t

Re: S L O W Leopard

Hi Lloyd, If you Mac is running slow since Snow Leopard installation, check in Activity Viewer to see if "Core Audiod" is using a heap of available RAM. If so, delete this preference file /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ com.apple.audio.coreaudiod.plist Then Restart your Mac and it should run

S L O W Leopard

I hear people say that Snow Leopard should be faster but since upgrading everything is v e r y slow. E.g. it takes 50 sec and up to 90 secs for a CD or a USB thumb drive to show up on the screen. My 250 gig ext hard drive takes more like 2 minutes to appear. Is there some way of speeding this up?