How do I speed up my iMac

You probably need to Free up some Disc Space... having about 20 GB of Free Space is a good start...

See Here...

http://macmost.com/what-to-do-when-your-hard-drive-is-full.html

Also, have a look here for keeping your Mac Happy...

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1147

http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/maintainingmacosx.html

http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/performance.html

If the disk is close to being full that can cause the Mac to run slowly.

I tested all of the supposed cleanup applications I could download a copy. None of them did what was claimed. Many did things that I didn't ask them to do. A number of which were actually dangerous. After my testing I deleted all of them from my system. I now recommend that you don't not use any of them.

Instead I recommend OmniDiskSweeper to find out which files and folders are using yopur disk space and then manually delete or moving as much as you can.

Allan

What typically takes up the most amount of HD space is media such as Music, photographs and movies. Please get an external HD and follow Apple's instructions below for moving those libraries to the EHD. This should free up a lot of space and should help the overall performance too.

iPhoto: How to move the Library to an EHD

iTunes: How to move the library to an EHD

iMovie: How to move the Library to an EHD

Colomama,

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For questions on how to use iPhoto please post on the iPhoto forum. You also will benefit by using the iPhoto tutorials found on:

http://www.apple.com/support/iphoto/

rkaufmann87,

If I move my media to a second EHD, will time machine still back it up? Can I run two time machines on two different EHD?