could one of the forum members tell the best way to free up space on my hard drive ?
Disk inventory X will help you identify what is using up all that space.
Do you use iPhoto by the way
How do I get to disc inventory x?
Hard to find them little devils!
Okay what do I do after I use disc inventory x and free up some space , do I delete it or keep it installed ?
Sorry I am not that computer savy .
Well what I mean is doesn't disc inventory x take up space?
wow that is very true pigoo, it is free now but may not stay that way. Anyway, I like having it, it is cool to have and see all the stuff in colors and in proportion, I am not completely sure how to use it tho I did free up some space. I was hoping it would then make my unit faster , it is slightly faster but I was hoping for more speed.
You have to keep in mind…this iMac G4 is 8-10 years old. This is like a "Ford Model T" in the computer world…so you have to expect some performance/speed issues.
- Nick
yeah LOL("Model T") I just want the beachballs and the browser quitting to stop . I have to restart to get back online . maddening , didn't use to do this .
The "computing world" gets more & more complex as the years go on…while the performance abilities of an 8-10 year-old computer have remained the same.
So for every year that goes by…what the computer his being asked to do gets harder & harder. Multiply this by 8-10 years…and we have a slow/very slow computer!
It's really not that the computer has gotten slower…as much as what it's being asked to do has gotten harder!
- Nick
I get it, kinda what I thought . I have freed up a lot of space on the disc, been putzing around all night with it it seems a little better . at least I know that I have done something instead of just getting frustrated.
one thing I am having trouble with is not being able(permission) to empty the trash after getting rid of files .I get a prompt that says I can't throw this away because it is in use ?
I still get a lot of beach ball which drives me insane . I have to do restarts to get rid of it . I empty the cache and delete cookies and clear the history all the time just to do normal web surfing .
Hey pigoo3 , I am getting the hang of disc inv. x!! I have a mostly empty disc now!!My memory gets used up by swap files, but I took your advice on how to empty the trash and I can dump them easy now .
See this computer used to be in a library at a college , I got it after they upgraded so it is full of folders pertaining to the library. I am slowly going through them and getting rid of things like stuff in other languages etc.