I would appreciate some help here, please. After getting help from various people in defragging my hard drive, I took a look and noted that my System Folder is 477MB out of the 2 Gig on my hard drive.
That size of system folder seems very excessive to me. I don't know how to tell what I really need in the system folder/extensions and preferences and what is left over from many things I have downloaded and trashed. The Extensions folder is 130 MB and the Preferences is 68 MB. I am getting what seems to be to be an above average number of system and finder crashes, not a huge number but more than I remember getting in months and years past. I have rebuilt the desktop Zapped the PRAM, which is about as far as my non tech brain seems to want to go. When I installed the new Ram early last year, I did not do anything more than open the case, put it in and close it up and boot it up. Everything ran fine. I do have the last version of Norton Disk Doctor that will run on my machine. My perhaps innocently stupid question is this. If I want to get down to the smallest waste space possible on the System folder and I have lots of time and no money, is there any value is erasing and reformatting the hard drive and then reinstalling all the programs I have from the original disks. I have 8.1 and 8.5 and the 8.6 upgrade and I can download everything onto another Mac with a ^Gig hard drive. I have no idea what sort of time frame I am looking at or whether that size of System Folder is normal. For reference I am running a C500 200 mHz, 603e processor with 144 MB of EDO 2k ram and System 8.6. Everything is as it came from the factory except for a USB card I installed so I could run an Epson C60 printer and Iomega 100 zip drive. I have Adobe Acrobat 4 along with the Distiller, Capture etc. Adobe Photoshop 5.5 lite Appleworks 6 Claris Home Page 3 Eudora Pagemaker 6.5 Quicktime 5 Explorer 5 Can anybody recommend beginner level books or websites that could take me through some of the early learning curve to be a webmaster? Claris Home Page is a dream to use and I find it quite easy to put the pages and sites together - simple as they are - but I also need to find out how to properly prepare sites before they are submitted to the various search engines and how to do the submissions, manually or some software program to handle that. Keith Pendlebury Salmon Arm BC Canada -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
