On Apr 5, 2007, at 5:48 PM, Shel Horowitz wrote: > 1. How does one defrag a hard drive in OS 10.2.8? I knew how to do > it in OS 1-9 but I don't know how with my current system. > Performance has gotten really slow the last couple of weeks, and I > suspect fragmentation. (Or is there something else I should be > doing to restore performance speed?). It has used 34.65GB out of > 55.89. Apple's HFS+ doesn't suffer from fragmentation in the same way that Microsoft's FAT32 and NTFS file systems do, and OS X takes great pains to keep files smaller than a fairly large size (20MB? I don't remember the number precisely) contiguous on disk at all times. Odds are that something else is wrong. > 2. Twice this week, I have been unable to wake up this Mac when > it's asleep. Both times it was several hours into a massive file > upload using YouSendIt (today's was ~680MB, and it got up to 30% > within a couple of hours, then just sat there, and then when I came > back an hour after I'd last used it, no matter what I did, I got a > dark screen with only the power light on). I don't know if a > similar problem had occurred the previous time, but I *was* in the > middle of an upload. If it doesn't happen any other time, I'd suspect YouSendIt. If it happens with other programs too, I'd recommend checking to see if there's a firmware upgrade for your machine, and considering an upgrade to 10.3 or 10.4 -- power management has improved considerably since 10.2. Charlton -- Charlton Wilbur cwilbur at chromatico.net