[X4U] Aggravatingly slow beach ball

[Randy B. Singer]

On Oct 30, 2009, at 8:30 AM, Mark Des Cotes wrote:

> My hard drive is only 60% full...

Download the free demo version of iDefrag:
http://www.coriolis-systems.com/iDefrag.php

Use it to see how fragmented your drive is.  Even more important than  
that, see if there are any large chunks of free contiguous space left  
on your drive.  If there are none, then nothing that you do, other  
than defragmenting your hard drive, will speed things up.

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Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)

Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html
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