[Hidden-tech] Mac 10.4 Questions

[Tom Adams]

>
> Hi Lynn & Shel,



just wanted to clear something up for you.  OS X will run just fine with
less than 50gigs...(sounds like some serious misinformation coming from a
computer company?)

I've had as little as 200MB left on my HD without any signs of slowing down
whatsoever.

just thought i'd mention it.  hope you're doing well.

-t


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:
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> > 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,
>
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