I don't think Applejack will verify your disk. Do this with
Disk Utility.app, and if problems are reported, repair them by
booting from your installation disk.
Another thing you can do, besides the suggestion already given
that you look at the logs, is to run Activity Monitor. Look at the open
files and ports for your various applications and system processes,
and see if anything obvious pops out at you.
How full is your disk drive? If the drive your OS is on is close to
being filled, then your system can bog down because the OS
needs a fair bit of space for virtual memory, particularly if you
don't have a lot of real memory. I don't remember the exact
numbers, but OS X runs best if you have in the neighborhood of
10-20% of your drive free, and this should be at least 5-10GB.
If you are well short of these numbers, you probably don't
have to wipe and reinstall to a bigger disk. Cloning your
system to a bigger disk using CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper!
and using the cloned system may fix your problems while keeping
all your preferences and data intact.
Good luck!
On Oct 22, 2009, at 12:00 AM, COMPUTERGUYS-L automatic digest system
wrote:
From: db <[email protected]>
I've got a thorny problem with an Tiger Mac Pro system.
Apps including Office start loading slow, then stop printing.
Photoshop
/ Bridge says to reinstall but will sometime run again if I run
Applejack.
I've run all aspects of Applejack manually one by one, including
memcheck a number of times.
I've run Font Doctor multiple times.
I don't have a DiskWarrior CD and the downloaded version I bought from
Alsoft and installed on that machine won't launch apparently because
of
the problems.
I'm about to wipe and install Leopard on a new and bigger primary disk
but was wondering if it could be some other physical problem (power
supply, chip, MB...)
Can anyone recommend the best system test utility can I use to check
these issues before I invest the reload labor?
db
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