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Subject: [Leica] OT: Apple Mac gets grindingly slow...(Now: LR Windows Too)
From: rcmphoto at yahoo.com (R. Clayton McKee)
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 20:16:48 -0800 (PST)

Maybe more to the point:  Where's the scratch disk, what's ITS capacity, and 
is that drive running well?


R. Clayton McKee
PhotoJournalist
from somewhere just south of somewhere else...


--- On Thu, 12/2/10, Ric Carter <ricc at embarqmail.com> wrote:


> what is your bootdisk capacity and
> how much is free?
> 
> ric
> 
> 
> On Dec 2, 2010, at 10:46 PM, Robert Baron wrote:
> 
> > Thanks, Richard.? I just did that and it
> apparently found no errors.? I say
> > 'apparently' because I left it to run and when I came
> back it had finished
> > rebooting and left me no visible report of finding
> anything wrong.
> > 
> > But I've still got the problem so it must be something
> else.? Maybe a
> > failing video card?? I have no idea how to test
> for that.
> > 
> > Or maybe it is just that the program has got too
> complicated for its own
> > good?
> > 
> > --Bob
> > 
> > ==On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Richard Man <richard at 
> > imagecraft.com>wrote:
> > 
> >> Right click on drive, then Tools, then scan disk
> and check all the options
> >> to fix errors etc.
> >> 
> >> If it says it can only do it on reboot, then do
> it.
> >> 
> >> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 5:40 AM, Robert Baron
> <robertbaron1 at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Can anyone recommend a similar program for a
> Windows XP Pro desktop
> >> setup?
> >>> 
> >>> The Develop Module in LR3 is giving me fits -
> it blinks on and off like a
> >>> neon? sign in a bar - and since I keep
> all my program files on one
> >> internal
> >>> hard disk and images on others I'm starting to
> wonder if that disk is
> >>> trying
> >>> to tell me something I don't want to hear.
> >>> 
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> 
> >>> --Bob
> >>> 
> >>> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 7:03 AM, Spencer Cheng
> <spencer at aotera.org>
> >> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>> I use an application called SmartReporter
> which monitors and warns of
> >>> disk
> >>>> problems for the Mac. It gave me 24 hour
> notice of my laptop drive's
> >>>> impending failure a few months ago. Saved
> my bacon.
> >>>> 
> >>>> <http://www.corecode.at/smartreporter/>
> >>>> 
> >>>> Regards,
> >>>> Spencer
> >>>> 
> >>>> On Dec 2, 2010, at 2:52, Peter Cheyne
> wrote:
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> I never thought of it maybe being a
> failing internal hard drive.
> >> I'll
> >>> be
> >>>> a bit more attentive to when it happens,
> but so far it seems only to
> >>> happen
> >>>> when editing a photos.
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>>
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> >> 
> >> --
> >> // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/>
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Replies: Reply from robertbaron1 at gmail.com (Robert Baron) ([Leica] OT: Apple Mac gets grindingly slow...(Now: LR Windows Too))
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