Nora, So glad this helped but you won't need to do it each month. I doubt you have ever done it and just now your machine was getting problematic. You will begin to notice the applications taking a long time to load and quit, you'll see more spinning balls and who knows maybe 6 months down the road you will need to do it again, maybe longer.
Remember, on the external drives to unmount and turn them off (if not on the boot with DiskWarrior they will once again appear and confuse DW). Once DiskWarrior is running then turn on all your drives and they will be available in the selection window for the drive to rebuild. John On Jul 21, 2011, at 11:04 AM, Nora Probasco wrote: > I cannot believe the difference in the performance of my Mac since I rebuilt > the directory. I plan to rebuild the directories in my other 3 portable > drives too. Also, turning off some of the extensions that I don't use made > Firefox work normal again. I get the beach ball sometimes but for short > periods. I now know that if my machine slows down, what I need to do. Would > it be better to do a monthly rebuild to make sure it doesn't get that way? > > Nora > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:04 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > Great news Nora, I can't stress this enough it has worked wonders for my > machines. They get so flaky, have enough spinning balls to throw a beach > party and after a directory rebuild they are like a new machine, it's > unbelievable. There are always many errors found, and I have a TimeMachine > backup, a SuperDuper backup and a 3tb backup drive where I move the many > movies. All three need to be rebuilt as there are always bad directories in > each. > > John > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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