Speeding up MAC
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- mirrorball
Any of yahs have any tips for speading up your mac by deleting things or turning various features off?
Things like speeding up photoshop, illy and indesign, quark etc by delving into the progams preferences. ie. turning off page previews in Indesign CS3 to speed up screen redraw.
Even workflow enhancements, organisation of files and client projects.
If so post them down here...
- mirrorball0
Some other performance roadblocks; turn off the visual page preview in the Pages palette. Hide the Info palette. The first has to draw a png file of each page and show it in the palette. The second has to count every word in the document and then display the number. Apparently there is a bug in the way InDesign does this.
- stuff like this, very valuable to save time and let you get on with designingmirrorball
- assuming your talking IDmax_prophet
- Jnr_Madison0
http://www.qbn.com/topics/565334…
Not sure if this helps but I remembered this thread.
- Nathan_Adams0
Sounds totally dumb - but dust the air intakes. My iMac was gradually getting slower and slower - and the fan louder and louder, until I ran one of those static dusters underneath the screen - and it's improved on both counts. Go figure.
- Mishga0
if you throw it through a window, it might get a bit faster...
*sorry.
- SigDesign0
Nathan, how old is your iMac?
- stem0
- Raniator0
that xslimmer sounds pretty nice... i'd be quite wary of using though, especially if you are using a G5, strip out all the intel code and then upgrade machine and use os x's clone feature (whatever it's called)... none of the software will work. be afraid.
- mirrorball0
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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.
The above will help with performance in general for the machine and while working in Photoshop.
- acedeuce0
99 Speed Tips For A Fast Performing Mac
- pascii0
- faster harddisc and maximum of ram
- use quicksilver or overflow
- work only with shortcuts
- autoflavour0
buy a new one
- mirrorball0
Overflow is one of the best apps out there, whips the crap outta the dock.
Lazymouse is a great lil app too!