Rather than make 3 separate threads, I'm just going to merge all my questions into one and hopefully get them all answered! Been super busy the past few days and I finally have a spare time, so I'm crossing out things on my ever-growing to-do list.
1. I was reading the "best Mac apps thread" and found a program called "CleanMyMac." I ran it, and it's telling me it found 5.86 GB of "junk" it can delete. Before I go and have it remove all that, would someone mind taking a look of what it found and just giving it the once over and making sure some of it isn't vital?
2.8 MB PNG here:
http://thefrapp.com/_/i/CleanMyMac.png
2. Lately for school, I've been working with some rather large Photoshop documents (~1/2 GB). I anticipated this and that is why I have the 17" MBP w/ 4 GB of RAM. When I know I'll be working on these large files, I switch into "Better Performance Mode" to enable the beefier GPU (since CS4 is supposed to offset some of the CPU load to the GPU right?). Yet I still find it slowing down my entire system. Little things too, like moving a small layer will cause my system to beach ball momentarily. It gets kind of annoying when I'm trying to finish my projects!
3. Lastly, I just realized Mail.app is using 3 GB. I currently have it set up with my school email and my gmail (also my website email, but I never get email on there). I've always been confused of the whole POP/IMAP thing. I believe I have them both set up as IMAP because I've been told it's better. Isn't one supposed to just "read and display" the mail while one actually downloads it all locally? I'm assuming IMAP does this and it's causing a rather high disk usage for Mail.app, which I doubt can be any good. Is there anyway to migrate over the accounts to POP (or whatever it isn't) and be able to safely delete my mail (locally) while still being able to access it (from a server, of course)?
Hopefully someone can answer all my questions! Not a lot of free time in school and these tiny problems getting solved would be a relief to me!
1. I was reading the "best Mac apps thread" and found a program called "CleanMyMac." I ran it, and it's telling me it found 5.86 GB of "junk" it can delete. Before I go and have it remove all that, would someone mind taking a look of what it found and just giving it the once over and making sure some of it isn't vital?
2.8 MB PNG here:
http://thefrapp.com/_/i/CleanMyMac.png
2. Lately for school, I've been working with some rather large Photoshop documents (~1/2 GB). I anticipated this and that is why I have the 17" MBP w/ 4 GB of RAM. When I know I'll be working on these large files, I switch into "Better Performance Mode" to enable the beefier GPU (since CS4 is supposed to offset some of the CPU load to the GPU right?). Yet I still find it slowing down my entire system. Little things too, like moving a small layer will cause my system to beach ball momentarily. It gets kind of annoying when I'm trying to finish my projects!
3. Lastly, I just realized Mail.app is using 3 GB. I currently have it set up with my school email and my gmail (also my website email, but I never get email on there). I've always been confused of the whole POP/IMAP thing. I believe I have them both set up as IMAP because I've been told it's better. Isn't one supposed to just "read and display" the mail while one actually downloads it all locally? I'm assuming IMAP does this and it's causing a rather high disk usage for Mail.app, which I doubt can be any good. Is there anyway to migrate over the accounts to POP (or whatever it isn't) and be able to safely delete my mail (locally) while still being able to access it (from a server, of course)?
Hopefully someone can answer all my questions! Not a lot of free time in school and these tiny problems getting solved would be a relief to me!