Hi all, I'd love some help. Let me try to breakdown the issue as best I can:
My girlfriend's iBook is an older, 30gb model, which she's had for several years. 30gb is simply not enough, as you can imagine, even for her simple music and net needs. Recently, with very little memory remaining, she began to notice that memory was getting eaten up, even though she wasn't adding any files, was regularly clearing her browser cache, etc. So I began to investigate this problem.
First, I deleted all Garageband-related material, freeing up about 3.5gb! Good riddance. Next, per instructions I'd seen elsewhere, I checked the Console to make sure that the regular maintanence programs have been running recently. They have.
But in Console I also noticed a lot of repeating command lines, which is the main part of my question now. When she first got the iBook, she had a year's subscription to .mac, which is a sort of networked backup and web-sharing service as best I understand it. She never renewed her subscription, but the "network" icon remained in Finder.
However, it appears to me that her iBook is still trying to connect to the .mac network. Here are (what I hope are) the relevant command lines I see being repeated endlessly in Console:
"dotmacsyncclient486 Failed to login to account - command failed: .Mac rejected either your user name or your password. Please verify your .Mac member name and password in the .Mac preferences in System Preferences."
AND:
"webdavd600: network_mount: WebDAV protocol not supported; file:
mount.tproj/webdav_network.c; line: 2703"
So... MY QUESTIONS:
1. What are these command lines about? How can I make them stop?
2. I believe that these repeated behaviors may help explain why memory was "disappearing" on her computur. Can anyone verify this? If not, can anyone offer an alternative explaination?
3. Any other simple, effective suggestions for freeing up more memory?
THANK YOU very much in advance for your patience in reading and helping me understand what's going on here! Arigato gozaimashita!
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