misterioso,
Most of the problems you experience are due to bad habbits or total ignorance on how to work with Pro/Serious Apps...
I have only 9 GIGS
free out of my so called 60 Gig Hard Drive. I am a
Logic Pro user and need to score a friend's short
film early this week. I copied the film onto the
computer - and it starts and stops...
Well, you just experienced the dropped-frames phenomenon, take a look at my feedback for a user with similar problems here:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=2055760#2055760
I think my email may be the problem...
I have 4 GIGS of email that I want to archive and get
off my laptop... because I need to free up the space,
and a local mac guru suggested my computer may be
acting funny (which it is) because of it.
Now, this is totally wrong: 4gigs of mail, Logic Pro, and the video file you want to work with are on the same disk/partition...
That won't take you very far unfortunately...
Also, any so-called "mac guru" that hears your problem and instead of suggesting you to set up your mac for professional use, tells you to sort-out your email, is probably just a "consumer-mac guru"...
If you want a good starting point on how to set-up your Mac here's what you should do:
Keep an eye on Apple's resources:
http://www.apple.com/support/logic/
and start visiting Professional Audio forums like this:
http://logicprohelp.com/
As I posted on the thread mentioned above, a shortcut for a decent setup is like this:
1) Make a
clean and customized intallation of the OS on a seperate disk (if that's not possible then at least on a seperate partition of the same disk). Customized to your workflow/needs, turning off each and every blink/blonk gizmo that ***** precious processing power from your system (ie dashboard, window/visual effects etc).
This setup will be used for audio work only. Forget e-mail, net services etc, they'll only make your work difficult/impossible.
2) Buy a quality seperate HD (since you're using a PB get an external FireWire HD) to use as
scratch disk. This is where your media files should be edited, and keep it clean + defragmented.
3) Step off the illusion that you can do everything from one single MacOS installation on a single HD. General-computing is consumer-computing, professional work requires customization, time and an appetite for knowledge...
hth
Pismo - MacMini - Dual G5 Mac OS X (10.4.5) SGI O2 R12K/400/1G/Irix 6.5.29