From: Charles Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Your friend MIGHT be right about the temp folders, but I very seriously doubt it. The usual culprit there is that you're running out of available RAM because some program or process is "leaking" and needing progressively more RAM the longer you leave it on. Eventually the system starts to use Virtual Memory (disk space) for the RAM and that's when things get sllllooooowww.
Hmm, with 1.75GB of RAM... ---
You can check your available RAM by simply using a free utility like "Free RAM" or by checking the stats in the Activity Monitor (which is in your Utilities folder). If it's low, a reboot should solve the problem at least for a while.
I never leave my work AlBook on over night and the iMac gets shut down quite often, and they're the two that suffers the most. ---
Other things you should be doing:
1. Run OnyX (a free utility) about once a month to clear caches, delete excess VM files, update/rotate logs, etc.
2. Repair permissions from within Disk Utility every now and again.
These I haven't been doing.
Cheers!
Larry
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