that is entirely likely Sarah. a lack of space for system maintenance tasks can cause a severe performance hit on any system (not just OS X). this is why I usually save off a lot of my files to a network drive. anything that I want to save long term goes either onto optical media, or large memory sticks.
-Eric On Jan 20, 2011, at 5:21 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > Hey all my start up disk is almost full and I notice some very sluggish > behavior everywhere. Can this be the cause of my slow computer behavior? my > mail takes forever to refresh, my finder is bush when sorting and a bit more. > the fan is not going but I"m thinking that this might be the cause. I will be > freeing up some space to make the system defrag when it can but just > wondering. > > S > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
