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24 inch iMac getting Spinning Beach Ball
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<blockquote data-quote="Randy B. Singer" data-source="post: 1199024" data-attributes="member: 190607"><p>You probably won't believe me, but your hard drive is effectively full. That 40GB of free space that it has, which I know sounds huge, is spread out as tiny little areas in-between thousands of files on your drive, which means that space is too difficult for your Mac's OS to access to do all of the stuff that it needs to do. (e.g. virtual memory, scratch space, system databases, etc.)</p><p></p><p>What you need to do is get a new external hard drive, offload a bunch of stuff from your internal drive to the external drive, and then defragment the internal hard drive, so that it once again can perform normally. </p><p></p><p>This is discussed in detail at:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html" target="_blank">OS X Maintenance And Troubleshooting</a></p><p>Item #6 and Note #1</p><p></p><p>___________________________________________</p><p></p><p>Randy B. Singer</p><p>Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)</p><p></p><p>Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance</p><p><a href="http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html" target="_blank">OS X Maintenance And Troubleshooting</a></p><p>___________________________________________</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Randy B. Singer, post: 1199024, member: 190607"] You probably won't believe me, but your hard drive is effectively full. That 40GB of free space that it has, which I know sounds huge, is spread out as tiny little areas in-between thousands of files on your drive, which means that space is too difficult for your Mac's OS to access to do all of the stuff that it needs to do. (e.g. virtual memory, scratch space, system databases, etc.) What you need to do is get a new external hard drive, offload a bunch of stuff from your internal drive to the external drive, and then defragment the internal hard drive, so that it once again can perform normally. This is discussed in detail at: [url=http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html]OS X Maintenance And Troubleshooting[/url] Item #6 and Note #1 ___________________________________________ Randy B. Singer Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions) Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance [url=http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html]OS X Maintenance And Troubleshooting[/url] ___________________________________________ [/QUOTE]
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