F*cking iMac c*nt 2424 Responses

Last post: 3 years, 11 months ago | Thread started: Jun 12, 08, 9:08 a.m.

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• kona

  We have an actual apple tech in here on Thursdays and he gave us a list of things to do to our Macs to speed them up, especially in CS3 Photoshop and help them crash less. Download and install Onyx to help repair, fix and clear your cache.

  • i wanna see the list– barbtastic

  

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  Dog-earJun 12, 08, 10:02 a.m. – Permalink

• kona

  Font Management:

  1. Download Linotype Font Explorer X. (http://www.linotype.com/fontexp... Font Book on the mac is simply a font viewer and does not have the range of functionality that we require. Font Explorer X allows for deactivation and activation of font families as well as cache management.

  2. If you already have non-system fonts installed remove those fonts from Font Book. Delete the references to them in Font Book.

  3. Restart

  4. Move the non-system fonts into a folder in your Documents folder. This folder can be named anything you choose. Font Explorer X will ask for the location of non-system fonts during install. You will add these fonts to Font Explorer X at that time

  5. Install Linotype Font Explorer X and follow the onscreen installation instructions.

  6. Allow Font Explorer to manage your systems fonts and place them in its folder structure.

  7. If you are not prompted by Font Explorer X to clean your font caches please do so now by selecting Tools > Clean system font cachces followed by Tools > clean application font caches.

  8. Restart your machine.

  System Management:

  1. Download Onyx
  2. Install Onyx
  3. Under the automation tab check all of the selections and execute the scripts. This will remove all remaining font caches, system caches and clean and optimize the OS.
  4. Create a schedule for maintaining the OS and run the utility weekly.

  Photoshop Disk Space Management:

  1. Attach USB 2.0 or firewire drive to usb or firewire port
  2. When drive is recognized launch the disk utility in Finder > Utilities > Disk Utility
  3. Reformat the drive as Mac OS journaled, case-sensitive.
  4. It will now appear quickly when mounted.
  5. Open Photoshop
  6. Select Preferences (apple + K)
  7. If your drive is mounted it will show up in the list of scratch disks. Set your newly formatted drive to be the second scratch disk.
  8. Restart Photoshop

  Photoshop Performance Enhancement:

  To adjust the Cache Levels setting:

  1. Choose Photoshop > Preferences > Performance.
  2. Enter a value from 1 to 8 in the Cache Levels text box. Click OK.
  3. Restart Photoshop.

  To turn off the font preview:

  1. Choose Photoshop > Preferences > Type.
  2. Deselect Font Preview Size.

  To deselect Export Clipboard:

  1. Choose Photoshop > Preferences > General.
  2. Deselect Export Clipboard.
  3. Click OK.

  To allocate more memory to Photoshop:

  1. Choose Photoshop > Preferences > Performance.
  2. In the Memory Usage section, increase the Let Photoshop Use percentage, and click OK.
  3. Restart Photoshop.

  • < Some things to help– kona1/7

    Since you're being so helpful today...:
    http://www.linotype.…
    – flavorful2/7

    awesome, was just going to email and ask after the last comment, thanks kona– avolve3/7

    i win– barbtastic4/7

    It's not the full list. He had us do a bunch of things with connecting to our DNS and preferences. He did that part though.– kona5/7

    thanks tonnes Kona, will try this out. you're a gent– kelpie6/7

    You're all welcome. :)– kona7/7

  

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  Dog-earJun 12, 08, 10:03 a.m. – Permalink

• i_R_error

  10.5.3 huh...

  its a biatch

  

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  Dog-earJun 12, 08, 10:06 a.m. – Permalink

• kult

  Vista.

  • xp– al_la

  

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  Dog-earJun 12, 08, 10:13 a.m. – Permalink

• Jaline

  ....back up?

  ...

  • some real idiotic responses in here today huh!– avolve1/5

    Yeah, and I even read your original post.– Jaline2/5

    hehe– avolve3/5

    more idiotic: not backin yr shit up in the first place– barbtastic4/5

    well, true, but as I said ive spent 7 professional years without ever the need to back up stuff using os x– avolve5/5

  

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  Dog-earJun 12, 08, 10:25 a.m. – Permalink