[HM] Clean-up v. new computer

[T. Brown / groucho]

On Saturday, December 7, 2002, at 07:38  PM, J. Dobson wrote:

> Another question
>    Although I'm pretty good at self-teaching myself software programs, 
> I'm
> not good with knowing how and why the insides of these things work (as
> you'll see below).

May I suggest a great book on Mac insides.

How macs work
by John Rizzo and K. Daniel Clark.


> AI have a beige desktop G3 with 352 MB built in memory, with 266 MHz 
> (is that
> my problem?). I'm using system 9.0.4

I would suggest upgrading to 9.2.2 and doing a clean install.


>  Most recent is saying that I'm out of memory,
> when I know I'm not (fragmented?)

Sounds like a fragmented drive.


>  I'm also the one that lost my dictionary

Netscape ?
I lost mine too, I re-installed.

>
> What is the software or program that will de-fragment everything?

I use Norton utilities 5 or 6, cheap on Ebay.


> I'm thinking that the only thing I can do is copy everything onto CD's,
>

You could add an external hard drive and copy over files. Then when all 
is done use the external for
internet cache files and downloads location. This will keep 
fragmentation to a minimum on your main
drive and speed things up a bit.

>  Part of my problem is that I have two systems folders on here
> (don't ask - I think it had to do with several office moves) and I 
> don't
> know which one to toss.

Check to see which one has files have been most recently modified, that 
should be the one you are
currently using.


groucho