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My Fault

February 24, 2007 at 11:02 am | 3 Comments »

I’ve been telling everyone, well Chris at least, that my PowerBook seemed sluggish for months now. Too many spinning beachballs. Too many just plain non-responsive moments. Safari especially turned recalcitrant. I knew that the hard drive was filling up. Only 6-7GB of the 80GB remained free. Still multiple GB seemed like a lot. Yeah, yeah, I know. Lots of people say OS X wants at least 10 percent of the space free. But I have been extra lazy lately.

For some reason though, I got it in my head to do something about it last night. So I ran a full backup of the drive, then moved about 10GB worth of files I rarely access to an external hard drive. Presto, I’m back in the 15GB range of free space and things feel snappy again. Simple maintenance, I know. Who would have guessed?

3 Comments on “My Fault”

  1. 1 Ryan Zachary Hale said at 11:44 am on February 24th, 2007:

    My Mom is having the same issue on her MBP. It’s amazing how just backing up some stuff can make all the difference.

  2. 2 darren said at 12:07 pm on February 24th, 2007:

    nothing made my trusty PB snappier than getting it back from apple with close to all of my 80 GB free again…

  3. 3 Shar said at 4:46 pm on February 24th, 2007:

    OMG. Remember when 1GB drives were HUGE??? We must be getting ol’….