The Dell laptop display went dead (the backlight bit the dust). I can still see the shared folder on the Dell laptop via my iBook over my home network. I am planning on using both Mac OS X and Windows XP/Windows 7 on the MacBook Pro. I need to migrate my files over from PC to Mac. Probably using Parallels. Fortunately, we can—the conundrum of running multiple OSes at once has been solved by Parallels, and now it’s faster than ever with Parallels Desktop for Mac. So why would you want to run multiple operating systems on your Mac? Let us count the reasons: Keep business on one OS and fun on the other, with hardware partitions in between.
It just that I don't have any money, apple product cost a lot of money. If you can't afford backups, you either have completely disposable data or you can't afford to have a computer. Data loss is a certainty - the only question would be when it happens - if you don't have backups.
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I get the impression you are very young, so take it from someone who has been around for a while and had his share of data loss. If you have data that has value to you and choose not to back up, it's only a matter of time before you are very upset.
Have any other suggestions to speed up my computer? Just about every suggestion we'd be likely to mention is on the Mac OS X speed FAQ to which you have been referred.
Have you read it and tried any of its advice? If you did what the maintenance myths stated, you didn't understand what that article was saying. You are not supposed to do those things. That is what the article says-don't do them for maintenance. I have five macs of all different architectures and I have never used anything to maintain them. They still run as fast as they ever did. If you actually did some of those things, it is likely that's what caused your Mac to slow down.
Cleaning caches slows down your machine unless you actually have a corrupted file in the cache. Repairing permissions doesn't serve any purpose unless you actually have permission problems as evidenced by applications not being able to access certain files. The unix scripts don't really do anything important. Rotating the log files would be useful if you had a log file that wasn't automatically rotating.
I don't think I've seen this on any Snow Leopard installation. If you regularly edit video or very large graphics, then your drive might be fragmented, but likely not. Boot speed is not a measure of computer speed. However, if it is taking you over a minute to boot, either your hard disk is overflowing, or your RAM is bad, or you have some hardware the computer doesn't undrestand connected to it.
A bad directory can also slow you down. Instead of buying 'optimization' tools, try to discover the source of the slow down, and approach it with the correct tool for the problem at hand. And for that matter, you shouldn't optimize any Mac without backing it up first.: A dying hard drive may slow any machine down, and it has an equal chance of happening on the Windows side as the Mac side, since they are separate distinct partitions.
Until you know what actually is slowing down your machine, don't attempt to fix it before the hard drive is backed up, because wholesale changes to the system can speed its demise. I wrote the aforementioned Speed FAQ. Links to my pages may give me compensation.
I am Master Drago wrote: It only one years old. So why do people make apps to clean and speed up the mac? To take your money. Here are my problems with my mac: 1. Slow boot up time What is 'slow'? Get out your watch and tell us.
Slow loading apps App loading speed is usually measured in 'bounces'. Again, we have no idea what you consider 'slow' 3. Windows 7 is faster though bootcamp. Never used either one.
I know Parallels boots XP in about 1/10th the time that my old work PC used to. Funny what happens when you don't have all that anti-virus code.
Is it possible to update the drivers for mac? Not unless there is an update available for your Mac.
The most likely cause is some incompatible software you have installed on your Mac. 1.Now that your machine is exhibiting strange behavior you can run 'repair permissions' from Disk Utility and restart.
If that doesn't help, then download 10.6.5 Combo update to your desktop and run it from your desktop. Then run 'repair permissions' from Disk Utility again and restart. You should stop treating your Mac as if it were a Windows machine.
Your Windows experience does not apply to your Mac. 'Let yourself go Luke'. How much of a disk partition did you allow for the MacOS vs.
Windows on your Mac? Did you give all your available disk space to your Windows partition? If you are within 20% of your maximum disk partition allowance for MacOS then you might have a disk/hardware limitation affecting your performance.
Or maybe your memory is too small. Do you have at least 4Gbytes of memory? It takes 3 minutes to get into the log-in screen. My apps bounces for 20 secs.
Then you need to begin reading the Mac OS X speed FAQ that you were referred to. It does sound like you're having a performance problem, but using a 'cleaning tool' to do things like clear caches, run the periodic scripts, etc without a specific reason for doing so is not the right solution. You could just as easily break things worse without solving any problems.
It's like firing multiple shotgun blasts into your walls, while blindfolded, to try to solve a mouse problem. When I scanned my computer with AppKeeper, it said 1700 useless junk files and 12 performance problems. Without knowing what those are, we have no idea how legitimate those claims may be.
Some AV software will label 'tracking cookies' as a danger when they are not. As sad as it is, some software companies will play up 'problems' in order to sell software to solve those 'problems.' One reason I wrote the speed FAQ was that I found that my Powerbook G3 needed no optimization tools. It just needed enough RAM, disk space, and an occasional repair permissions because Mac OS 9 does not keep permissions in check.
While people were complaining about Mac OS X speed, they really were overkilling their maintenance causing more slow downs than not. Yes there are times when these tools can be used. But it takes an experts eye to tell the difference of when to use them and not. Dying hardware is often to blame for similar issues, and hence why I say always backup your data at least twice before using any other tool.
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So, I have a LaCie 320 GB external hdd (USB 2.0) that worked perfectly until last night. Now it won't mount when I connect it to my computer, nor can I see it in Disk Utility. Disk Warrior can't see it either. I tried connecting it to my roommate's MBP with no luck. It spins up just fine and doesn't make any clicking noises or anything like that, so I feel like there might just be some hope yet; I'm thinking it might just be a faulty USB cable or something, but I don't have a spare one to try it with.
My neighbor is a big techie, so I'm probably going to give him a call later, but I was hoping you guys might have some other suggestions before I bug him with it. Im having the exact same problem. I bought a 1TB drive just 5 days ago nd used it last night. I did a dodgy dismount last night but come on, these things can survive that once in a while surely. A minute ago it was flashing alot then the access light turned off, but now the access light is solid.
My poor macbook is whirring away like crazy trying to deal with it, but no evidence of the drive. If i open disk utility it says 'gathering disk information' indefinitely and won't close. If i yank the drive disk utility will calm down and show my internal drive. What the hell? I copied a folder over and all the contents ended up corrupted. I deleted it but it wouldn't leave the recycle bin. No matter what.
This wasn't a problem at all but i wonder if having some corrupt stuff on there has killed it. Which isn't fair because it working just fine until yesterday. Try booting from your OS X installation DVD, then launch its Disk Utility (you can start it from the menu bar; just don't start the OS X installation itself). If the USB drive is visible there, let Disk Utility repair the disk and its permissions. After that, reboot to your regular OS X installation and see if the disk re-appears. You can also try rebooting your Mac with the drive being physically disconnected from your Mac. Then shutdown OS X, plug in the drive and startup your Mac again.
I've had similar problems with FireWire and USB disks in the past and the fiddling described above usually helped. Same Problem - Solution!
Hi there, I know this is an old thread but. I had the same problem with my external Seagate (don't remember the model, couple of years old), after removing it without unmounting it. I would connect it, it would spin up, but it would never mount.
As you say, it would work perfectly under Windows on a different machine. Be amazed to read the solution in my case: (drums rolling.) Run VMWare, Windows Vista. Take control of the USB port under VMWare, disk appears in Vista, disable USB under VMWare.
Disk now appears in MacOS. Hours of agony and sweating, (thousands of pictures and mp3s on that disk), and problem solved by the help of Windows 'It just works'. Wait one min buddy!!!! You mean to tell me that you may have figured out something huge and you post with no detail.
There website offers lots of things and I don't want to pick them all even though I am super desperate right now. I just finished crying about my drive and I saw your post, and my mood changed to hopeful. I would like to know what to do so bad right now. I'm going through the same problems with a drive that dropped and disconnected from my computer.
Now its doesn't work. So, whats the science boss? Djcheckone, what mmichalak has said is by no means a solution to every problem.
It is simply a solution to his problems, and maybe a few others who have a similarly configured computer. VMWare and Parallels can both mount drives automatically if they are running (they are virtual machines if you did not know) - this is an isolated case though. What i would suggest is go to Apps-Disk Utility (the same application that you use to check file Permissions) look on the left hand side and see if your drive pops up there at all. If you can, take a screen shot (by pressing + Shift + 4, then dragging the area you want to take a picture of - it will be saved to the Desktop by default) and post that picture here. Maybe we can help. Djcheckone, what mmichalak has said is by no means a solution to every problem. It is simply a solution to his problems, and maybe a few others who have a similarly configured computer.
VMWare and Parallels can both mount drives automatically if they are running (they are virtual machines if you did not know) - this is an isolated case though. What i would suggest is go to Apps-Disk Utility (the same application that you use to check file Permissions) look on the left hand side and see if your drive pops up there at all.
If you can, take a screen shot (by pressing + Shift + 4, then dragging the area you want to take a picture of - it will be saved to the Desktop by default) and post that picture here. Maybe we can help. You mean to tell me that you may have figured out something huge and you post with no detail.
There website offers lots of things and I don't want to pick them all even though I am super desperate right now. I just finished crying about my drive and I saw your post, and my mood changed to hopeful. I would like to know what to do so bad right now. I'm going through the same problems with a drive that dropped and disconnected from my computer. Now its doesn't work. So, whats the science boss? Click to expand.Hello there, now comes the reply from the boss As other people have said, this may not be the solution for everybody, there are a million reasons why this can happen.
Hopefully, your drive works fine, even though you dropped it VMWare is a software you can use to run different operating systems from within OS X. Apart form VMWare itself you would also need another operating system. In my case, I had an original version of Vista (student licence, legally downloaded). VMware can be downloaded and used for free for a certain period (I do not have experience with Parallels.). Things that I also tried and failed: a) resetting PRAM during reboot b) removing battery for 20 mins (I had seen this somewhere) c) rebooting My controller was definitely not damaged, since my hard disk was working fine on my pc as well.
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I have to say I was quite surprised with this one, I do not know what the problem was, but in my case this was the fix. If you happen to have bootcamp installed with another operating system try to boot into that and see what happens. Just to check that your disk is fine, try to plug it in a different computer, a friend's computer for example. I hope it works out ok for you, let us know how it goes.