G4 iMac slowing down

i had the same problem with my imac and i was told to repair the permissions using disk utility.

it worked for me but considering that i am no expert you may want to see if someone seconds my idea

G3 ibook 800 and G4 imac 800 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Hi,

Yep. Repairing permissions can help...

Hard Drive > Application > Utilities > Disk Utilities.

There are also some good and free Applications on the wibblywobblyweb...

Onyx

Macjanitor

YASU


to name three.


Regards

Ian

Hi Richard,

1st repair permissions using disk utility.

load terminal up, found in app/utilities and enter the following line:

sudo periodic daily weekly monthly

It will ask for your admin password.

then reboot, it will take 2-3 reboots before it starts to speed up again, but you don't have to keep restarting the machine this is just something you might notice.

This cleans out the cache manually that programs such as Onyx does for you. If you leave your iMac on all the time (no sleep) it will run these for you after midnight sometime as it is a Unix maintanace script.

http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html

" OS X runs its own (very basic) built-in maintenance routines, sometimes called "cron jobs," or "maintenance scripts," automatically between 3:00am and 5:30am each day. (There are daily, weekly, and monthly scripts.)"

There is something else you can do which is called forced prebinding, this make OSX check the links to all the programs so it has the quickest route to them, have a look at the following page:

http://www.chrisborkowski.com/archive/blogs/2005/07/force_prebindin.html

Also just search the web for OSX maintanance stuff the more you read the better your system will become.

Rob

G5 1.8Ghz DP & 15 iMac Mac OS X (10.3.9)

I use Onyx ( http://www.titanium.free.fr/). It's a free program that can help you to do maintenance on OS X.

Try using the "cleaning" features and then use Onyx to run the repair permissions feature.

Good luck!