I've found DiskWarrior to be an indispensable tool on my Mac. It fixes disc corruption that diskutil can't and optimizes the directory. It might be worth a try. Bill
William Prothero http://ed.earthednet.org > On Jul 24, 2015, at 4:50 AM, JB <sund...@pacifier.com> wrote: > > 10% might work for you but it definitely does not > work for me. I have a 1tb drive and 348 gb free > space. Most operations run slower than normal. > I deleted about 150gb of music to bring it up to > 350gb because it ran too slow to use. Now it > runs fast enough to use but I still have a lot of > wasted time. I had a 350gb drive and had the > same problems way before 35gb free space. > > John Balgenorth > > >> On Jul 24, 2015, at 4:15 AM, Robert Brenstein <r...@robelko.com> wrote: >> >> A rule of thumb for Mac is 10% of drive being free... >> >> I find iStat Menus a useful tool for continuous monitoring of vital >> parameters (just a happy user). >> >> RObert >> >> >>> On 23.07.2015 at 15:37 Uhr -0700 JB apparently wrote: >>> If I remember correctly Bob Sneidar said that a >>> you need at least 1/2 of your hard drive as free >>> space to run efficiently. So if you have a drive >>> with 500 GB you need 250 GB or more free >>> space on the drive. Anything below that and >>> it normal operations like opening files will be >>> slower. I have used more space than 1/2 and >>> the more I use the slower it gets. Sometimes >>> you can speed things up a little by relaunching >>> the Finder. That can be done using the Force >>> Quit option. If it speeds things up it will only be >>> a temporary fix. >>> >>> John Balgenorth >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
