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 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 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 "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 iPhoto, with large libraries, is
rather slow.
I have done all the obvious things like cleaning caches, running
Disk Warrior, repairing permissions, running maintenance scripts,
reinstalling 10.5.8 combo update with no change evident.
I see a list as long as your arm of Microsoft .plists in
Preferences and am tempted to trash them all. Removing and
reinstalling Office is another option that is available.
Additionally I have a bootable clone and am thinking to erase the
disk and then reinstall the clone, or erase the disk, and do a
clean system install.
I await comments or suggestions before attacking any of these.
No, iWork is not an option, unfortunately!
Severin Crisp
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