[Hidden-tech] Need quick advice on Mac OS 10.2.8, please

[Shel Horowitz]

Hi, HTers, I've got three questions.

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.

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.

3. I'm also having difficulties with Eudora. It's crashing a lot, 
with no particular pattern about why (other than if the mail comes in 
when it's not the top-most application, it will often crash--but 
lately it's been crashing for other reasons too. This is the paid 
version, v. 6.2.3. I have the memory set to minimum size of 13,312K 
and the recommended at 14,336 (the program's default is like 4MB). I 
tried to bump up the memory, but even when the program's not running, 
the finder won't let me change those numbers as I did in the past.

Anyone got any advice about any of this?

Thanks a bunch.
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