[X4U] Aggravatingly slow beach ball

[John Baltutis]

On 10/31/09, Ed Gould <edgould1948 at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Oct 31, 2009, at 1:05 AM, Randy B. Singer wrote:
>> On Oct 30, 2009, at 10:38 PM, Ed Gould wrote:
>>
>>> The finder (to me) has become a slow moving turtle and at some 
>>> point in the future it will stop working.
>>
>> I'm willing to bet that if you performed *every* task listed on myroutine
>> maintenance site, that you would regain all of your lost performance.
>
> Been there done that a few times. While the things you mention are
> worthy of doing (and indeed should be done) they have not helped me.

Then, give these a look see:

Mac Maintenance Quick Assist <http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1147>,
Mac OS X speed FAQ <http://www.macmaps.com/Macosxspeed.html>,
Speeding up <http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20070416000657464>,
Maintaining OS X <http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/maintainingmacosx.html>,
Essential Mac Maintenance: Get set up
<http://www.macworld.com/article/133671/2008/06/macmaintenance1.html>,
Essential Mac Maintenance: Rev up your routines
<http://www.macworld.com/article/133730/2008/06/maintenance_routines.html>, and
Myths of required versus not required maintenance forMac OS X
<http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1772235>.