[emalen]

Lately I've had this feeling like my powerbook 1.25ghz, 512 Ram superdrive is performing SLOWER then usual....

this is something I mainly notice when I use photoshop or inDesign... and I open a photo, and it takes a while.. . like the watch comes up or the blue bar comes up and it takes a while longer then i feel it should, especially for a photo that isn't even 1mb....

is there anything I can do.. would it help if I re-installed everything.. I've had this computer for almost a year and I'm sure a lot of junk has accumulated....

I run norton, and disk doctor etc.. i'm just trying to think of some things that might speed it up.

anyone else feel their pb is slow? any suggestions.

thanks,
emalen

[crouchingtiger]

fire up your activity monitor (Applications/Utilities) and see if something is hogging up your CPU. I had a problem with some weird background process taking up all remaining CPU power all the time and causing the sluggishness you describe. It persisted through reboots, but I was able to kill it by force-quitting. This was on a TiBook 800.

Also, repair permissions using disk utility.

[emalen]

Yeah, I tried the Activity Monitor.. it doesn't seem like there is anything on that shouldn't be... thanks for the suggestion though!

emalen

Originally posted by crouchingtiger:
fire up your activity monitor (Applications/Utilities) and see if something is hogging up your CPU. I had a problem with some weird background process taking up all remaining CPU power all the time and causing the sluggishness you describe. It persisted through reboots, but I was able to kill it by force-quitting. This was on a TiBook 800.

Also, repair permissions using disk utility.

[iREZ]

Try resetting your PRAM, that should speed it up a little if its getting bogged down, also if its Safari thats acting slow you could try clearing out the cache. It could also be things running in the background that you're not aware of.

[K-Bat]

open a photo, and it takes a while.. . like the watch comes up or the blue bar comes up and it takes a while longer then i feel it should, especially for a photo that isn't even 1mb...

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Have you recently changed the settings for the color management policy in color setting (Apple+Shift+K)? Depending on your setting, Photoshop converts the embedded RGB profile in an image to the working color space when an image is opened. An image file opens much slowly when Photoshop does this color profile conversion, and this is normal. I may be missing something, but your symptom (i.e., blue bar) looks like this is the case.

[rag on a muffin]

try using another app that you know the normal speed of. that way you will narrow down if its you computer, or photoshop.

if its photoshop, move your photoshop prefs on to your desktop. if its faster, you only have to reset some settings.

[Daniel Bayer]

Progress bar or clock on 1MB photoshop files?

OUCH!

My 17 1.33 has never had any third party disk warrior or Norton-like maintenance, just permission repair in disk utility.

Right now it is over half full and can fluctuate by as much as 20GB per week and 10GB per day.

It just did these files in the following times using Photoshop CS:

JPG-500K open to 5.76MB .3 seconds
JPG-1.8MB open to 12.1MB .6 seconds
TIFF-57.4MB 1.1 seconds
TIFF-121.8MB 3.1 seconds

TIFF-105.6MB open from photoshop boot-up 6.6 seconds, first progress bar.

....It would not be fair to leave out that the hard drive is a 60GB 7200 RPM model....

I have never liked Norton for disk maintenance.