Hi Ronni
Please don't research that on my account - if I did try another drive
it would be an internal one. Ram comments noted.
best
alastair
(the ram/hdd argument is a specious one in the current cashflow
climate. Anyone out there need illustrations?)
www.goatpix.com.au
On 16/11/2
Hi Alastair,
I would increase your RAM for a start, more RAM helps speed things up, 8GB is
good ;-)
PS & PS Elements use 'scratch disk'. If you had another internal drive on your
computer you could designate a separate disk as the scratch disk.
Your scratch disk needs to be as fast as the driv
Hi Ronni / Severin
Interested in your photoshop and disc space discussion. I have also
read that PS likes a separate disc for a scratch disc - any idea if
this makes a significant difference? I was considering getting an
extra drive but it would be disappointing if I didn't see a benefit/
Hi Rob and others who 'might' still be in the "Need to Defrag" Group,
I don't wish to start a "For Defrag - Against Defrag" discussion, just point
out a couple of things ;-)
Using a free frag disk has great potential to wreck your Mac.
Have you noticed that there is no Apple de-frag application?
Ronni,
thanks, as always, for your perceptive and valuable summing up
comments on this one.
After Mail and Safari my main work is with Photoshop, Word, iPhoto,
iMovie, Mpegstreamclip, CinematizePro and FinalCut Express(learning!)
so there is lots of call for extra scratch space and the lik
I posted something in early September which may be useful. On the other
hand, Ronni posted something in response which implied this whole disk
fragmentation 'story' may be a furphy, because Snow Leopard does this
already. In any case, one of my problems resolved itself after running
idefrag,
Had me doing some spring cleaning as well when I saw bits of software
using memory when I thought I had chucked them out two years ago.
Activity monitor is a great way to see things, even if you do not know
what they all are!
Bill
On 16/11/2010, at 9:36 AM, Severin Crisp wrote:
Thanks
Hi Severin,
The bigger the Hard Drive the better, also a 7200-rpm preferred to a 5400-rpm.
I would like a 1TB or 2TB Hard Drive in my MacBook Pro ;-)
I get really worried if a 500GB Hard Drive gets to 100GB Available Space, I
like more than 30% Available Space.
If you run Photoshop it is best
Thanks to Ronni, Daniel, Robert and others for useful input on this
one. For the moment I have trashed the various preferences and will
assess the outcome in due course. Robert's piece on "real" drive free
space and speed is intriguing and obvious when you think about it. In
any case I
Just to add to Ronni's post.
If you're using Office 2008 it also stores settings in this locations:-
Macintosh HD/Users/yourname/Library/Prferences/Microsoft/Office 2008
(or as Ronni posted I could have left off the first 3 parts and used ~).
You can just move the whole folder out to the Desktop a
I guess Bill if its Word having the problem.
~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.Word.plist
The ~ (Tilde) represents your 'User Account'
Cheers,
Ronni
On 15/11/2010, at 4:28 PM, Bill Parker wrote:
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> Can anyone be specific about the plist? Which one?
>
>
> Bill
> On 15/11/2010, at 3:1
Can anyone be specific about the plist? Which one?
Bill
On 15/11/2010, at 3:13 PM, Severin Crisp wrote:
80GB free on a 300GB boot disk, Rob
I have looked at Activity Monitor before but will give it another
try. Many thanks
Severin
On 15/11/2010, at 2:15 PM, Rob Phillips wrote:
Hi
80GB free on a 300GB boot disk, Rob
I have looked at Activity Monitor before but will give it another
try. Many thanks
Severin
On 15/11/2010, at 2:15 PM, Rob Phillips wrote:
Hi Severin
How much free disk space do you have? <20% can be an issue...
Can you use Activity monitor to see wha
Delete the .plistWord will rebuild them anyway. Sounds as if one is corrupt.
Regards, Eugene
On 15/11/2010, at 1:46 PM, Severin Crisp wrote:I am running 10.5.8 on a G5 1.8SP and Office 2008. Recently I have found that Word is behaving
Hi Severin
How much free disk space do you have? <20% can be an issue...
Can you use Activity monitor to see what's happening?
The article in last week's MacTalk forum may be helpful.
http://www.mactalk.com.au/2010/11/04/using-activity-monitor-to-diagnose-poor-performance/
Rob
On 15/11/10
Same experience here. I have tried all the usual traps - generating
new docs from NEW, not save as from older ones, making sure the size
is kept to a minimum - I had an 8MB client doc the other day and the
bells rang immediately. Keep saving almost every edit and hope..
Bill
On 15/1
I am running 10.5.8 on a G5 1.8SP and Office 2008. Recently I have
found that Word is behaving "snitchy" for want of a better
description. Slow and hesitant, spinning ball, closing with apology!,
hanging and needing forced close. Everything else seems normal though
I would say that iPhot
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