Anastasia,<div><br></div><div>On thing I pointed out last night was that hard drives should not be more than 90% full. If your hard drive is, _or ever has been_, more than 90% full, you need to use Carbon Copy Cloner, Disk Utility, or SuperDuper to clone your drive to a bigger drive.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Once you get past that 90% threshold, you _must_ do that to maintain stability in your Mac. Clearing off space doesn't remedy the fragmenting issues that result.<br clear="all">-- <br>Jon Thompson<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 9:13 AM, AB <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anastasia_prittee@yahoo.com">anastasia_prittee@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font:inherit">I think I'm going to have to call Apple to see if they an help troubleshoot Aperture, otherwise I may have to do an exchange at the Apple store or see if they can credit a portion for the full version instead of the upgrade. <br>
<br>Spaces and Expose seemed to work better after I did a hard shut down over night. I suspect the lagging Snow Leopard and choppy Spaces and Expose lead back to iTunes bogging down the system. Adding new internal SATA drive and more RAM would likely be a necessary route to reap the full performance benefits of using both at the same time. I have more than adequate requirements, but my iTunes library consumes the entire partition of half of a 750 GB secondary internal SATA drive. I've been wanting to further upgrade the RAM in the Mac Pro from 3G RAM. I'm thinking I'll ensure it with overkill with a pair of 4G sticks from
Crucial.<br><br>I'll send a brief outline in another message of how one can configure "Spaces" based on function. Basically as workflow management.<br><br>Thanks, Victoria for the info about Tidbits Take Control re: Thanksgiving Turkey. I'm going to approach it with a sense of adventure! Now it may be I have more last minute company, so this has the potential to turn out to be quite a series of misadventures with the turkey. Maybe I will prep it the night before to do it properly.<br>
<br>-A.<br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 11/24/09, Victoria L. Herring <i><VLH@HerringLaw.com></i></b> wrote:<br><br>From: Victoria L. Herring <VLH@HerringLaw.com><br>Subject: Re: [DM-MUG] Pokey Snow Leopard<br>To: "Des Moines Mac Users Group" <<a href="mailto:dmmug@dmmug.org" target="_blank">dmmug@dmmug.org</a>><br>
Date: Tuesday, November 24, 2009, 12:52 AM<br><br><div>I'm using Aperture 2+ on three SL machines just fine, so it's not <br>that = and if you are getting that message ref compatibility,
there's <br>something else going on. I don't use Spaces/Expose so can't comment <br>on the rest but if you get this worked out I'd love to have you <br>explain how Spaces/Expose work for you since I want to use them but <br>
haven't<br><br>-- <br>Victoria L. Herring, Des Moines, Iowa. Blogs: <br><a href="http://blog.JourneyZing.com" target="_blank">http://blog.JourneyZing.com</a> [photography]; <br><a href="http://www.herringlaw.com" target="_blank">http://www.herringlaw.com</a> [lawfirm]; <br>
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