Evening everyone,
I've used macs for a few years now and am in the process of moving my mum from the crappy family PC over to my old iMac G5, which is just over 3 years old. The G5 is staying at home so mum can use it and I'm going back to uni on Tuesday with my MacBook.
I've set mum up with a new user account, her iPhoto library is on the computer but the iTunes library and a load of backup stuff is on a Western Digital My Book Home edition external hard drive as there's not enough room on the G5. Just as I was starting to show mum how to use the mac (at times a painful process - she's not the best at learning new computer things) the G5 went and showed me up. It's being pretty slow at opening applications and loading photos in iPhoto and it is also quitting applications without any notice or obvious cause.
The problem seems to be only in mum's user account which confuses me as it's pretty much pristine. I've scanned it with ClamxAV for viruses and found none and am in the process of scanning the external HD. One weird thing is that sometimes (but not all) after an app has shut itself down unannounced a finder window will open at a specific folder on the WD Hard Drive. It's a random photo file, originally I had mum's iPhoto library on the external drive but have sinced freed plenty of space for it on the G5 hard drive as I feel its more reliable, but there are still copies of all the photos on the hard drive. I really cant see why it sometimes links back to this one though.
Sorry, I know this is a really long post but thought I'd try and give as much info as possible - I need to get this sorted before I go back to uni on Tuesday otherwise mum won't be able to use the computer and I'm not back again until Christmas! I'd really appreciate your help and any ideas/suggestions you guys could offer. These forums have always been very useful for troubleshooting in the past, just hope my first post can work out as well!
I've used macs for a few years now and am in the process of moving my mum from the crappy family PC over to my old iMac G5, which is just over 3 years old. The G5 is staying at home so mum can use it and I'm going back to uni on Tuesday with my MacBook.
I've set mum up with a new user account, her iPhoto library is on the computer but the iTunes library and a load of backup stuff is on a Western Digital My Book Home edition external hard drive as there's not enough room on the G5. Just as I was starting to show mum how to use the mac (at times a painful process - she's not the best at learning new computer things) the G5 went and showed me up. It's being pretty slow at opening applications and loading photos in iPhoto and it is also quitting applications without any notice or obvious cause.
The problem seems to be only in mum's user account which confuses me as it's pretty much pristine. I've scanned it with ClamxAV for viruses and found none and am in the process of scanning the external HD. One weird thing is that sometimes (but not all) after an app has shut itself down unannounced a finder window will open at a specific folder on the WD Hard Drive. It's a random photo file, originally I had mum's iPhoto library on the external drive but have sinced freed plenty of space for it on the G5 hard drive as I feel its more reliable, but there are still copies of all the photos on the hard drive. I really cant see why it sometimes links back to this one though.
Sorry, I know this is a really long post but thought I'd try and give as much info as possible - I need to get this sorted before I go back to uni on Tuesday otherwise mum won't be able to use the computer and I'm not back again until Christmas! I'd really appreciate your help and any ideas/suggestions you guys could offer. These forums have always been very useful for troubleshooting in the past, just hope my first post can work out as well!