Damien Calloway wrote: > Oh, and I forgot to ask - where can I find something that will defrag the > drive ? Disk First Aid will only say the drive is OK, but it won't do > anything else.... > > Not that I want it to give me any bad news, you understand, just that it > won't let me defrag. > > > Well, the OS was upgraded from 7.5.5 to 8.5 to 8.6. I did not know Macs > > needed to be defragged, but come to think of it, I vaguely remember doing > > something like that on an IIcx we had way back when I was in grade school. > > I found that Netscape was very slow, so I have been using IE 5.1 - would > > Defrost still work anyway ? Also, not sure about my RAM - but I'll > > definitely check into it - thanks ! > > > >>> my Mac is prone to > >>> sudden freezes when loading web pages with a lot of graphics, or even when > >>> running 5 or 6 apps a t once,
I don't know if Tech Tool has it but Norton Utilities certainly does, however the new Norton (version 7, I think) does not work with OS older than 10. So you'll need something older, you may find a cheaper & older version in eBay. Most of the times norton will do a great job on repairing problems with file corruptions and such. Freezes are not mostly caused by hardware unless something is broken or damaged. Corrupted files, Extent B-tree structure or volume bitmap errors will very likely do so. DO NOT trust Disk First Aid, it is not as good as it should be! Things you can try for free: •Rebuild the desktop by holding the Apple key & Option key before the finder comes up. You can also do it by opening any application, switch to the finder, force quit the finder, then quit the application while holding those two keys, the mac will ask you if you want to rebuild the desktop, answer "yes". I recommend after doing so you restart the mac. There is also a freeware program (look in tucows!) that erases the desktop file and then makes a new one rather than "rebuilding it on an old structure" (I heard Tech Tool ($) can do it and save your comments on the way). •To defragment the disk without the need of software manually copy the files/folders into another (NOT the harddrive) (or if you have different partitions you can do it in one), erase it and put everything back in, I believe that's the best thing cause you're taking care of desktop files, corrupted unused space, virtual memory files and such. Also please remember to erase the browser cache files often if you can, the program keeps erasing the oldest ones and adding new ones all the time. My $.02 -- ••Liliana•• Human is the only specie in the world that kill just for the fun of it, because they are the only specie in the world who's capable of hate. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Millions of animal species have become extinct because of men, there was only one time when humans where close to extinction; ironically it wasn't because of animals. -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
