Hi...
I don't profess to be a tech genius, so I'm hoping someone out there will help me out with some advice. My main workstation is an intel iMac 24", about 5 years old, running mavericks, 500GB root drive, 1TB FW8000 Lacie Time Machine, 6Gigs of Ram.
My iMac has been slowing down little by little, and I decided to try an purge as much as is possible so that I now have about 1/3rd of my 500GB HDD free. I have a WD MyBook 2TB drive that I will use for project data storage, most of my work is Adobe Photoshop PSDs and PDFs. I do a lot of graphics work and that work requires a lot of different fonts.
So thinking back from my PC days, I seem to remember that only having 100 or so fonts active helped performance, and IIRC, I did keep my extra fonts stored on a separate drive.
Would I be able to store my unused/inactive fonts on my NAS or USB drives? We're talking probably 800-1000 fonts. And would moving all those fonts off my root HDD on the iMac help its performance?
One thing that is annoying me is that every once in a while, my iMac just freezes up. I have to basically reboot and then its fine... the beachball isn't driving me nuts LOL. Don't know why that is happening.
TIA!... Mike
I don't profess to be a tech genius, so I'm hoping someone out there will help me out with some advice. My main workstation is an intel iMac 24", about 5 years old, running mavericks, 500GB root drive, 1TB FW8000 Lacie Time Machine, 6Gigs of Ram.
My iMac has been slowing down little by little, and I decided to try an purge as much as is possible so that I now have about 1/3rd of my 500GB HDD free. I have a WD MyBook 2TB drive that I will use for project data storage, most of my work is Adobe Photoshop PSDs and PDFs. I do a lot of graphics work and that work requires a lot of different fonts.
So thinking back from my PC days, I seem to remember that only having 100 or so fonts active helped performance, and IIRC, I did keep my extra fonts stored on a separate drive.
Would I be able to store my unused/inactive fonts on my NAS or USB drives? We're talking probably 800-1000 fonts. And would moving all those fonts off my root HDD on the iMac help its performance?
One thing that is annoying me is that every once in a while, my iMac just freezes up. I have to basically reboot and then its fine... the beachball isn't driving me nuts LOL. Don't know why that is happening.
TIA!... Mike