[X4U] Re: Weird hard drive Copy Issue

[Keith Whaley]

George Harvey wrote:

> I am definitely unhappy with my update to 10.3.7, and wish that I had 
> stayed with 10.3.6 on my main drive. After I updated, and installed the 
> latest security update, I found that startup was very slow, and that 
> MacChampion had timed out. 

I have recently read (can't recall where...) that all is not well with 
one recent Security Update.
So, just as a heads up, I mention it. It might not be OSX 10.3.7 per se. 
It might be a glitch in the Security Update.
I don't know how or if you can undo a Security Update.

> Then I found that all connections to the 
> Internet were very slow also, and that it took about ten times as long 
> to start Mail or a browser as before. 

I don't use Mail, so perhaps that's why I have not experienced the 
universal slowness you mention?

> Each new connection to a web page 
> took a long time in most cases except for web sites that stayed 
> connected and did not ask for a return signal. Other applications were 
> slow to start up even though they did not contact the internet. However, 
> the 4 FireWire drives that I left connected work perfectly, and seem a 
> tad faster than before the update. I have tried everything I could think 
> of to eliminate the slow operation, including most of the suggestions on 
> the Web. Some things are considerably faster than before the update, for 
> example RagTime, Tex-Edit Plus, Mariner Write and Adobe Reader 7 are 
> much snappier, folders open faster, Find works faster. My system seems 
> to be rodk-solid and working properly except for the slowness.

Yes, I agree. Other than some oddities, I like 10.3.7 a lot. It does 
seem a better OS incantation than the previous ones...

> I am using a 1.8 GHZ G5 with 1GB RAM. I updated all 3 of my FireWire 
> hard drives (Granite Digital 120 GB, LaCie 120 GB, LaCie 250GB), and I 
> can boot up on all of them, and absolutely no problem there. They have 
> always worked fine from the very first installation. When I need to look 
> up a lot of stuff on the Internet, I use a FireWire drive running 10.3.6 
> in order to greatly speed up my work. I have a lot of work to do, and 
> not much time to spend on maintenance so I can not try every thing 
> possible to find and try to fix slowdown problems. I began using Macs a 
> long time ago because I could get more done in a day than with my 
> Windows PC, I had less trouble with spam, and installing or updating 
>  software took so little time.
> 
> I would welcome any suggestions about eliminating the slow startup.
> 
> George Harvey

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keith whaley
MDD PowerMac G4, 1.25 Ghz, 1.0 GB RAM, OS 10.3.7, Netscape 7.2, original 
80 GB H.D.