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
>
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> 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 itıs turning round, I canıt work on
>> the file. Does anyone know what this is and how
>> can I stop this or get rid of this sunflower?
>> Itıs a real nuisance.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Takamitsu
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