[X4U] ceasles spinning disk

[Randy B. Singer]

On Jul 25, 2007, at 11:21 AM, Stroller wrote:

> I have found - not wanting to kick off any flamewars, but this is  
> my experience - that disk fragmentaton can make a HUGE difference  
> on systems which are running low on drive space. You can get a  
> version of iDefrag which boots from CD and I have in the past found  
> the results to be very noticeable.

I agree.

In fact, I mention it on my Web site:

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

I suggest that you run all of the routine maintenance on my Web site  
and see if things get better.

Another option:

Run Activity Monitor, and check for percentage of CPU used, and see  
what is running that is causing a slowdown. "mds" and "mdimport" are  
Spotlight processes. If they are what is causing the slowdown,  
Spotlight probably has a corrupted database.   If that is the  
problem, let me know and I'll tell you how to easily fix this.


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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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