Hi Again NanciD!
What size is the Hard Drive, and how much space is available?
Insufficient available space, can cause performance issues, system corruption, and possible loss of data.
Depending on
Mac system usage habits, it is a general recommendation, to keep 10% to as much as 20%, of the
Total capacity, available at all times.
Review the suggestions, in the documents that I have linked to below.
Authored by
Dr Smoke:
Problems From Insufficient RAM And Free Hard Disk Space
Freeing Space On Your Mac OS X Startup Disk
Are you able to startup from the system install disc to run
Disk Repair?
Have you run
Repair Permissions?
Have you ever run any routine
Maintenance procedures, like suggested in the articles linked to below?
Mac OS X 10.3/10.4: System Maintenance, authored by
Gulliver
Maintaining Mac OS X, authored by
Dr Smoke
Is the
eMac shutdown overnight, or does it run
24/7?
If you turn the
Mac off nightly, the
Background Maintenance Tasks, are never run.
These can also be run, using a
Third-Party utility, or manually using
Terminal, to run the
CRON Commands.
I use
MacJanitor, when necessary.
INSTRUCTIONS TO RUN CRON MANUAL COMMANDS
Quit all applications/programs.
Navigate to HD > Applications > Utilities.
Double click on
Terminal, to open.
At the prompt, type:
sudo periodic daily
Press
Return.
Enter your Admin password when prompted, then press
Return.
This will execute the
daily script that is sheduled to run every night.
When completed, repeat this procedure, but change the command to:
sudo periodic weekly
This one rebuilds a database or two, and usually takes somewhat longer to complete. It is scheduled to run once a week.
Repeat again, with command:
sudo periodic monthly
Or they can all be run in one pass, which is preferable, with this command:
sudo periodic daily weekly monthly
When the tasks complete, and return to the prompt, you may quit Terminal.
Restart the
Mac, and run
Repair Permissions.
TO REPAIR PERMISSIONS ON THE STARTUP DISK
1.Open Disk Utility, located in Applications/Utilities, and select the startup disk in the left column.
2.Click First Aid.
3.Click Verify Disk Permissions to test permissions or Repair Disk Permissions to test and repair permissions. (I never "Verify". Just run "Repair".)
Rerun
RP, until the only messages reported, are listed here
Spurious Permissions Errors Using: 10.3.x, authored by
Michael Conniff.
When "Repair Permissions" is complete. Quit "Disk Utility".
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