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suddenly my text entry is lagging/very slow in Mail

This only happens entering text in Mail, not in text edit (or here). I'm using 10.5.8. Cause?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8), 800 firewire to 400 firewire?

Posted on Oct 7, 2011 2:46 PM

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Oct 7, 2011 3:00 PM in response to annfromsr

That could be caused by many things including being low on RAM or a cache. You can do a simple restart or to reset some of the caches restart in Safe Mode. To check to see if you're low on RAM when you notice the system slowing open Activity Monitor (Applications - Utilities - Activity Monitor) and check the System Memory tab. If the FREE RAM is 500MB or lower you could probably benefit by a RAM upgrade.

suddenly my text entry is lagging/very slow in Mail

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