Dear Simeon,

Thanks for your suggestions.

Best,

-- 
Takamitsu




On 16/04/2013 15:08, "Simeon Chavel" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I still find the following old actions to be helpful when my computer (MacBook
> Air OS 10.8.3) gives me trouble:
> ? restarting several times in a row
> ? repair permissions
> ? running maintenance scripts
> ? clearing cache
> ? rebuilding services
> Onyx is a good piece of free software
> (http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/11582/onyx) that does these and other
> maintenance things (aside from restarting several times in a row.)
> Before doing all these, be sure to back up.
> - Simi
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> Simeon Chavel
> Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible
> The University of Chicago Divinity School
> http://divinity.uchicago.edu/faculty/chavel.shtml
> <http://divinity.uchicago.edu/faculty/chavel.shtml>
> --------------------------------------------------
> 
> On Apr 16, 2013, at 7:56 AM, Alan Dow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
>> Hello Takamitsu,
>> So it would seem you have plenty of hard disk space.
>> 
>> The other common cause of system slowdown is "Spotlight".
>> Spot light causes two kinds of problem.
>> (1) It creates huge invisible files on your hard drive, and
>> (2) It runs an invisible program in the background on your computer called
>> 'MDS' which can use processing power and can cause delays in reading and
>> writing files to the disk (such as when Nisus tries to open a file?)
>> 
>> As a first (easily reversible) step which can help with (2) above, go to your
>> system preferences, click on the 'Spotlight' icon, then click on 'Privacy'.
>> Either drag your hard disk icon into the window, or click the '+' button and
>> add your hard disk icon using the dialog.
>> To be sure this setting is applied, you could then restart your computer, and
>> see if the problem with Nisus is better...
>> 
>> hth..
>> 
>> -----------------------------------------
>> At 9:46 AM +0200 16/4/13, t muraoka wrote:
>>> Dear A;am.
>>> 
>>> Many thanks for your advice, which is lucid for a neophyte like me.
>>> My MacbookPro's memory is 4GB. My hard disk is using 92GB and has still
>>> 227GB available. My iMac has 2GB, and its hard disk is using 65GB, and has
>>> still 232GB available. It appears then that both still have plenty of free
>>> space, doesn't it?
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Takamitsu
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 16/04/2013 04:47, "Alan Dow" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>  Are you running out of space on your hard drive?
>>>> 
>>>>  The amount of free space you need can vary
>>>>  depending on how much RAM memory your computer
>>>>  has.
>>>>  Look under your Apple Menu -> "About This Mac".
>>>>  You will see the amount of memory shown there.
>>>> 
>>>>  As a rough calculation to find how much hard disk
>>>>  space you need (in GB), double the above figure
>>>>  for memory, and add 2.
>>>>  Nearly all computers now will show the memory in
>>>>  Gigabytes (GB). If your computer is old, you may
>>>>  see the number quoted as Megabytes (MB). In that
>>>>  case, divide by 1000 to convert the number into
>>>>  GB.
>>>> 
>>>>  For example - my current computer has 4GB RAM
>>>>  installed. So I should have a minimum of 10GB
>>>>  hard drive space on my startup disk.
>>>> 
>>>>  If the hard drive space is a problem, you can
>>>>  often reclaim large amounts of space by disabling
>>>>  "Spotlight" on your computer, and deleting the
>>>>  Spotlight database files from your hard drive.
>>>>  These files are hidden, and after years of use
>>>>  they can occupy huge amounts of disk space. Of
>>>>  course, the down side of disabling spotlight is
>>>>  that you lose the indexes which enable your
>>>>  computer to speedily search all the files on your
>>>>  computer.
>>>> 
>>>>  You can disable Spotlight by entering commands in
>>>>  the Terminal program (google "Disable Spotlight"
>>>>  for instructions). If you find that challenging,
>>>>  you may consider buying software called
>>>>  "Spotless". It comes in separate versions for OS
>>>>  10.5 and 10.6, so your best path would be to buy
>>>>  the 10.5 version first, then pay the upgrade
>>>>  price for the 10.6 version.
>>>> 
>>>>  hth.. AD
>>>> 
>>>>  ==========================================
>>>>  At 7:18 PM +0200 15/4/13, t muraoka wrote:
>>>>>  Hello everybody,
>>>>> 
>>>>>  I wonder if any of you could help me.
>>>>> 
>>>>>  When I start working on a NW file, a
>>>>>  multi-coloured sunflower-like thing appears and
>>>>>  starts revolving, which seems to last for ages.
>>>>>  So long as it¹s turning round, I can¹t work on
>>>>>  the file. Does anyone know what this is and how
>>>>>  can I stop this or get rid of this sunflower?
>>>>>  It¹s a real nuisance.
>>>>> 
>>>>>  Cheers,
>>>>>  Takamitsu
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