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indigoimac · Oct 23, 2006, 08:58 PM

I've got my PowerBook in the sig running 10.4.8 and it is starting to feel a little slow and sometimes a lotta slow. The strange thing about this is that it only crawls when doing OS stuff like file management or just navigating through folders. It is as responsive as always within a given application. I just reinstalled in July or August and all was going well, but it just seems a little slow.

Any suggestions would be great, thanks!!!

cbrfanatic · Oct 23, 2006, 10:02 PM

how much hd space left?

seanc · Oct 24, 2006, 04:43 AM

It could be your hard drive.

My iBook G4 got slow and sluggish so I got rid of it. Not the answer you want to hear I'm sure, but thats what I did. I thought that it could be the hard drive but I couldn't be bothered to take it apart and buy another hard drive.

I've been using a dog slow PowerMac G3 for the past year, just bought a PowerBook that apparently keeps kernel panicking (haven't seen one yet) and it's extremely snappy

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Tuoder · Oct 24, 2006, 05:53 AM

Do you have alot of stuff in the dashboard? Does alot of stuff come on at boot time?

indigoimac · Oct 24, 2006, 06:05 PM

Originally Posted by Tuoder

Do you have alot of stuff in the dashboard? Does alot of stuff come on at boot time?

No not really, just 3 things in dashboard, 2 clocks 1 weather, I should try it out w/o it.

I'm a little concerned about the HD, that had actually been what occured to me, I have a good backup system in place, so I'm not concerned about losing data, but that would sorta suck, any way to check?

Oh yes, Hd space: 53.05GB left out of approx. 80

seanc · Oct 24, 2006, 06:08 PM

Download Smart Reporter and see what your S.M.A.R.T status is.

shabbasuraj · Oct 24, 2006, 06:11 PM

how much HD space do you have left?

If you are anywhere close to 90% full then that is a potential cause for such sluggishness.

indigoimac · Oct 24, 2006, 06:16 PM

Originally Posted by shabbasuraj

how much HD space do you have left?

If you are anywhere close to 90% full then that is a potential cause for such sluggishness.

It passed the SMART Reporter fine, and as I said before 53.05GB are available out of about 80, so it's not really close to 90%, lol

shabbasuraj · Oct 24, 2006, 06:20 PM

My bad..missed that.

ChasingApple · Oct 25, 2006, 08:04 AM

Have you repaired your permissions lately? Boot to the OS CD/DVD and run disk utility, repair permissions on the HD then quit out and reboot the mac. Should speed things up for you. Also you might want to have spotlight re-catalog your HD.

Other then that I cannot think of anything short of something running at boot that is hogging up your performance, but you say there is nothing so try those out.

peeb · Oct 26, 2006, 01:48 AM

Try setting up a new, clean account, and see if that runs any faster. If it does, then you can blame some software clogging up your current settup.