Speed up OSX Lion tips
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- mirrorball0
I know... I know... but I had just updated from a trusty seven year old G5 but needed CS5 to do my designing, forced upgrade!
Lion ain't too bad now, disabled everything bar Mission Control, new Macbook Pro is running like one well oiled fluid machine now.
- Lion doesn't run on PowerPC you don't have a G5.ernexbcn
- I know I don't sold it to and put th money towards the new MacBook Promirrorball
- Jaline0
Clean installs (rather than upgrades) always work better. You can back everything up on an existing external drive (hopefully it's large enough), install Lion, and then copy important files over to the new environment. I always wait a few months before upgrading.
- animatedgif0
"to clear up inactive memory i just verify permissions (have to do it all the time)"
You really... REALLY don't need to do this, read up on what inactive memory actually is
- animatedgif0
^ That meter isn't accurate, it's missing inactive memory which I'm guessing it's lumping in with "Used" memory so that when you press the button it seems like it's doing something good when actually it's doing bad. Snake oil if you ask me.
Can we have a screenshot of this part of Activity Monitor to compare with "Memory Scope"
The main problem is people seem to think inactive memory is bad (and I believe this Memory Scope app is lumping inactive memory with used memory which isn't right), Inactive memory is recently used cached memory.
For example, if you've been using Mail and then quit it, the RAM that Mail was using is marked as Inactive memory. This Inactive memory is available for use by another application, just like Free memory. However, if you open Mail before its Inactive memory is used by a different application, Mail will open quicker because its Inactive memory is converted to Active memory, instead of loading Mail from the slower hard disk.
By "freeing memory" with apps like this or by repairing permissions you are actually slowing your computer down.
- ItalianStallion0
^^
I just wanted to point attention to the fact that Fireworks is sucking a lot of memory... consider it was the only Adobe app running (for me, a rare case). About freeing memory, I agree with you but when working with a single app it could be useful.- Yeah FW is a bit of a memory hog, great app that could be an excellent app with some hard workanimatedgif
- FW was always a pig, though, for both Mac OS and Windows, even in the Macromedia days.Continuity
- pauli0
Great Tips For Keeping Your Mac Running Smoothly.
1. Shut the Mac off every night !
2. Reschedule nightly Maintenance for Daylight Hours.
3. Use a maximum of 3 Desktop Spaces
4. Use 'Clean My Mac' Regularly
5. Reset Safari Daily
6. Generally, I find that you have to treat the computer as if
it were a living, breathing entity:Install only necessary fonts, stay away from Junk Apps, stay away from Porn sites, stay away from hostile living environments in general.
It sounds strange, but it works. At least for me.
- mirrorball0
Anybody know how to take the yellow tags that pop up on screen every time you roll over something?