Hi Ronni
On 6/09/10 2:33 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:
Hi Rob,
Sorry to hear you are still having problems with your MBP. You are
not going to particularly like what I have to say … sorry :-(
OSX requires plenty of Free Unused Hard Drive space to run well. Also
you only have 2GB RAM, Snow Leopard really needs 4GB (I know if only
requires 1GB to install, but to run well it needs 4GB).
Yeah. In the past I've always maxed out the RAM, but I didn't for this
machine, because with Leopard it didn't seem a problem.
A hard drive that fills up and turns flaky is nearly impossible to get
back to normal without Erasing reformatting.
If you run Photoshop it is best to have 100GB of free space. If all
you were doing is Microsoft Word and email, I would keep a minimum of
50 GB free unused space available, this allows the operating system
vital unused space to write its swap files, virtual memory scratch disk.
Full hard drives also tend to fragment system and data files and
greatly slow disk access down, too.
Left unchecked, the problem will likely spread and corrupt the entire
install until the hard drive literally won't mount or the computer
won't boot or run without constant crashing.
This is where you are at …. (I did warn you that you wouldn't like
what I have to say).
This was probably my next option, so it isn't too much of a surprise!
However, I emailed the same info (plus reports of some recent kernel
panics) to the IT people at work, and they are trying to get me a new
machine on warranty. That's better news than your suggestion! :-)
Rob
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