Hi Shel, Believe it or not, I've been told (by the repair staff at Diversified Computers in Keene) that OS X will run slow with less than about 50 gigs of hard drive space. Have you considered getting an external drive and moving some of your files to it to save space on your main hard drive? Lynn Shel Horowitz wrote: > ** The author of this post was a Good Dobee. > ** You too can help the group > ** Fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > I'd appreciate some help with a few snags I've run into with Mac OS > 10.4.10. > > 1) I tried to uncompress a new driver for my router, which all of a > sudden can only find the two hard-connected computers and not anything > over the wireless network. Stuffit Expander told me it couldn't run > without Stuffit Engine, which has unaccountably vanished from my > computer. Searching the web, it seems it's no longer a no-cost product, > and nor could I find any competitors. Given how few files I need to > decompress, I'm not in a great rush to buy a file uncompressor. What > are folks using these days? > > 2) Is there *any* way to change the default setting on the Finder's > search function so that it searches a string in a file name, rather than > a text string within documents? I could literally write an article while > it searches and I always forget to change it. Besides, it would save me > oodles of time reconfiguring it every day if I could default to what I > need for 98 percent of my searches. > > 3) In general, performance on my G4 iMac has been absurdly slow for > several months. Yes, I have a lot of files--but I also have 11.87 GB of > unused disk space. It just crawls--like taking several minutes over > broadband to download the router firmware. Any recommendations to speed > it up? I was thinking I could off-load several gigs to an external > drive, and that might at least speed up iPhoto. is that a good method? > Are there better? > > 4) I'm using Spamfire 1.0. Recentl, I started having a problem with some > mail addressed to shel at principledprofit.com--but when I try to rescue, > Spamfire gives me: "Error 450 unable to find principledprofits.com" > (note the s in the domain--it's not in the actual email). The company > has closed its support department. Any ideas? > > Thanks so much, -- Lynn A. Nichols, Starstruck Design Web, Email and Print Solutions for Future-minded Businesses 335 West Gill Road, Gill, MA 01354, 413-863-7752 Reply to: lynn at starstruckdesign.com http://www.starstruckdesign.com http://www.shopwesternmass.com