Originally posted by niggiebro
simX,
Thanks for the download! I have 2 questions, (1) how do you take a screenshot of an item so I could post it? and (2) the program, "macOS purge", after extracting it and running it all it does is open up, "About this Computer", showing the RAM usage. There are no options to do any mods or adjustments!
OOH I get it! It shows you what apps are running and if it show other apps that are not open, there's you memory leak! RIGHT! Kinda like, "Task Manager", in MS Windows!
The "About this Computer" window shows the RAM usage, like you said. But programs that aren't running will never show up in there. It's just that sometimes a program can start using up hundreds of megabytes of memory (if you have that much), and that's usually a sign of a memory leak if it's a small program.
I found that Mac OS Purge really didn't do much when I used Mac OS 9, but when it opens the "About this Computer" window, you should see the memory usage of your open applications dip down a bit -- you have to really be looking to notice it. So it just does all its stuff in a few seconds; you might want to run it often just to see if it helps for you. Personally, I didn't find that it helped much, but it could be different in your case.
If you can let me know how to do that, "screenshot" so I could post it, thanks!
As pseudobrit says, simply press Command-Shift-3. A new file named "Picture 1" will be placed at the root level of your hard drive (so if your hard drive is named "Macintosh HD", just open it up and you should see the file there). If you take another, it'll be named "Picture 2". (Note that sometimes this is confusing, because if you move out your original "Picture 1", but leave "Picture 2" and take another screenshot, "Picture 1" will be created again, instead of "Picture 3").
If you want to take a picture of just part of the screen, press Command-Shift-4, and then drag from the top-left corner of where you want to take a shot to the bottom-right corner. This is useful in showing only the useful information in a screenshot, but sometimes you might want to just do the whole-screen screenshot to show context.
Then, when posting, simply use the Attach File feature in the forums, and you can show us the screenshot.
Oh yeah Mblazened, if I had a mouse that had a right or alternate click option on it, maybe I would have consider it, thanks!
Control-clicking is the same as right-clicking, just so you know. You can access all the contextual menus using a one-button mouse by using this method.
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