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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 1576710" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>185 GB in the trash? Appears you move a lot of stuff on and off the drive. Highly likely you could use a defrag on the drive. Your data and the free space is undoubtedly spread out from one end of the drive to the other which will cause longer reads and writes for just about everything.</p><p></p><p>Two ways:</p><p>Get iDefrag - you can grab their demo to check the fragmentation of the drive</p><p></p><p>Or backup, verify the backup, wipe the drive, reinstall the OS and on 1st boot up when it asks - restore from the backup.</p><p></p><p>-------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p></p><p>If you're ready to move to 10.9, would suggest: </p><p>creating not only a TM backup, but a clone backup as well - using either CCC or SD!</p><p>download 10.9 and create a thumb drive installer - before you install it - plenty of tutorials via google.</p><p></p><p>Once you have a TM and a clone backup and the thumb drive installer, then it's time to wipe, install and restore from backup.</p><p>Leave your cloned backup alone for a few days until you're sure you're going to stay with 10.9</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 1576710, member: 24160"] 185 GB in the trash? Appears you move a lot of stuff on and off the drive. Highly likely you could use a defrag on the drive. Your data and the free space is undoubtedly spread out from one end of the drive to the other which will cause longer reads and writes for just about everything. Two ways: Get iDefrag - you can grab their demo to check the fragmentation of the drive Or backup, verify the backup, wipe the drive, reinstall the OS and on 1st boot up when it asks - restore from the backup. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you're ready to move to 10.9, would suggest: creating not only a TM backup, but a clone backup as well - using either CCC or SD! download 10.9 and create a thumb drive installer - before you install it - plenty of tutorials via google. Once you have a TM and a clone backup and the thumb drive installer, then it's time to wipe, install and restore from backup. Leave your cloned backup alone for a few days until you're sure you're going to stay with 10.9 [/QUOTE]
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