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My mac may be sick!! Is there a "defragment" ....
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I'd check to see if pop-up block is enabled in your browser. Javascript can be nasty on some sites. You might want a faster hard drive if it's a laptop and more RAM never hurts.
Try downloading Onyx and run its maintenance tools such as cron scripts, clearing cache/history/temp files, emptying your trash. Some times just restarting your mac can go a long way
If you want a defrag program try iDefrag even though defragging in OS X is mostly un-needed
If you want a defrag program try iDefrag even though defragging in OS X is mostly un-needed
Onyx or Cocktail will help. Sure it will speed it up.
Option #2 Back up and install OSX its really quit and easy to install again and will bring you back to new conditions. Just make sure to back it up first!!!
Option #2 Back up and install OSX its really quit and easy to install again and will bring you back to new conditions. Just make sure to back it up first!!!
onyx ftw but journaled partitions running OS X usually don't have to be defragmented because, well in a way, they 'defragment' themselves by organizing the hard drive in a certain way.
theres this great app called drive genius, its what they use at the genius bar for the pro-care yealy tune up, i have it does everything defrags, repairs permissions, it has a featurecalled driveslim, it can benchtest, it can do everything, try the demo, also try onyx, another great app would be monolingual it gets rid of languages u dont want and processor architectures u dont use like powerpc or arm
I still feel that Maintenance and Onyx are baseless panacea.
Almost up there with Repair Disk Permissions.
Almost up there with Repair Disk Permissions.
