Harry, Easiest: Take it to MacAuthority or the Apple Store.
Self-help: In order (TL;DR version): 1. Reset his Safari from the Safari menu [1] 2. Create a new account for testing/comparing 3. Make space on the hard drive or get a larger one if it’s crowded 3. Add memory 4. Upgrade his system Long version: It sounds to me, though, like he is running out of memory. He can put up to 6GB in that particular box [2]. Does he have more than the 2 it came with? Does he like to keep a lot of apps open? I know people that use older and slower machines that like to leave their apps open so they don’t have to wait for them to start up, but then it just slows everything down. Another thing he might do is upgrade to 10.6 and then to something more recent. That particular iMac will run all the way to El Capitan if he wants to. Different people have different ideas of what to run on older machines and while 10.6 was quite popular for a while, I would recommend Yosemite or El Capitan at the moment. If it were mine, I would upgrade it to the 6GB straight away. (Life’s too short not to max out your RAM.) Then, I would backup the drive and then do a clean install of the newer system. Finally, I would pull back over piecemeal the files that he knows he needs, or if he can’t decide then just use the migration assistant after he is up and running with a new account on it. That will have the benefit of giving him two user accounts to compare performance with. It might be one or more corrupt preferences or settings, and the new account wouldn’t be handicapped with that. It might make it easier to troubleshoot. I am more of a “nuke-and-pave” kind of guy, but if he is not so adventurous, I would recommend: . Reset his Safari . Make a new account and then see if the safari in that account works any better. If so, then he definitely should clear his preferences [3]. . Upgrade to a newer OS. (Problematic because you have to have installer files to upgrade to anything from 10.5, as the App Store wasn’t available until 10.6. Another issue is that he will likely need to rebut/upgrade much of his software.) . Add RAM/Hard Drive if he is still not happy with it Jonathan [1] https://kb.wisc.edu/helpdesk/page.php?id=12319 [2] http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/specs/imac-core-2-duo-2.66-20-inch-aluminum-early-2008-penryn-specs.html [3] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4099160 > On Apr 19, 2017, at 12:00 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Russ, > > How do I restore default preferences and where are Safari preferences located? > > Thanks for your help. > > Harry -- Jonathan Fletcher [email protected] Kentuckiana FileMaker Developers Group Next Meeting: 4/25/17 Sent from a device not known for spontaneous combustion _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: [email protected] Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
