Dear Alan,

I have tried this tack, but regrettably it hasn't produced the desired
results.
I'm seriously considering moving over to Mellel.
Best,
Takamitsu


On 16/04/2013 14:56, "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