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Hey guys...
I'm primarily a user, not a technician. My iMac 24" Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8GHz is a few years old and I'm running OS X v.10.6.8. I have 6GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM installed, the unit has a 500 GB internal HDD. I have a 1TB Lacie Firewire 800 as my backup drive. My root drive has 79 GB free. I recently installed a Networked WD My Book Live 2TB, and I'm in the process of moving a lot of my graphic images files slowly over to the network drive.
I have Adobe CS4 Installed and although I primarily use Photoshop, I'm trying to learn AI in between the raindrops.
So lately, I'm noticing the spinning ball so much that I have to wait 30 seconds or so when I'm saving a file and trying to type its name. A friend of mine said that I should install Mountain Lion and a lot of the delays I'm seeing will go away. So thats easy to try, but in the case that it DOESN'T solve the problem, am I going to need to do a fresh install of the OS X Mountain Lion where its like reformatting the HDD in a PC is the only way to speed it up? And if that is the case... is there some sort of procedure to back up all my email, pictures, graphic files, addresses, correspondence, web site URLs, forum links and whatever so that I'm not starting totally from scratch? Likewise, what do I do about all my online applications that I've acquired in the past 4 years. Adobe CS4 and Corel Painter... I have my disks so that's not a problem... but what about all the small stuff?
Any advice is appreciated.
Mike
I'm primarily a user, not a technician. My iMac 24" Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8GHz is a few years old and I'm running OS X v.10.6.8. I have 6GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM installed, the unit has a 500 GB internal HDD. I have a 1TB Lacie Firewire 800 as my backup drive. My root drive has 79 GB free. I recently installed a Networked WD My Book Live 2TB, and I'm in the process of moving a lot of my graphic images files slowly over to the network drive.
I have Adobe CS4 Installed and although I primarily use Photoshop, I'm trying to learn AI in between the raindrops.
So lately, I'm noticing the spinning ball so much that I have to wait 30 seconds or so when I'm saving a file and trying to type its name. A friend of mine said that I should install Mountain Lion and a lot of the delays I'm seeing will go away. So thats easy to try, but in the case that it DOESN'T solve the problem, am I going to need to do a fresh install of the OS X Mountain Lion where its like reformatting the HDD in a PC is the only way to speed it up? And if that is the case... is there some sort of procedure to back up all my email, pictures, graphic files, addresses, correspondence, web site URLs, forum links and whatever so that I'm not starting totally from scratch? Likewise, what do I do about all my online applications that I've acquired in the past 4 years. Adobe CS4 and Corel Painter... I have my disks so that's not a problem... but what about all the small stuff?
Any advice is appreciated.
Mike