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arien617
Joined: Feb 01, 2006
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Ah, that could be ProCare only, or something along those lines?
Doing it yourself could be messy... best have your wallet at hand.
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p900 lover
Joined: Jan 08, 2004
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From: London
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Hey everyone, my MBP has started to run really slow at times. Im not sure what it is but i think it could be my hard drive is getting really close to full, its a 120GB drive and i have 8GB free, could this be it?
If so how easy is it to fit a larger capacity drive? |
thomas93
Joined: Sep 28, 2007
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It could be, my PC is soooo slow with about the same amount left.
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p900 lover
Joined: Jan 08, 2004
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From: London
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I think i worked it out, at that point i hadn't restarted the laptop in over 3 days lol,
Im still thinking about replacing the drive, you can always use extra storage space.
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thomas93
Joined: Sep 28, 2007
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Indeed.
Im looking to empty about a 120gb onto a spare drive, just jams up ):
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p900 lover
Joined: Jan 08, 2004
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From: London
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The thing is i cant put my finger on what is taking up all the space, ok so i have about 20 gig of music and the rest i dunno... |
arien617
Joined: Feb 01, 2006
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Get the info on the contents of your home folder, as it could be that the space being taken is in Applications or Library?
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Luke-the-magic-man
Joined: May 31, 2005
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download disck inventory x - it provides a break down of all files on your system, very clever...
Check out my sales  I am a mac fanboy  . I will honor Laffens gift of P990 flip free avartar, but I sold the p990  |
p900 lover
Joined: Jan 08, 2004
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From: London
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Wicked thank you Luke that is just what i needed.
I have sorted out the user folder and now moved onto a folder called private, it has 4 folders called var, etc, tmp, tftpboot. Now that don't really bother me apart from the total soze of the var folder, 16.3 GB. None of it seems useful to me but can i just delete it? |
Luke-the-magic-man
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I think i once deleted those files once... caused problems. Best to google the file names and check
Check out my sales I am a mac fanboy . I will honor Laffens gift of P990 flip free avartar, but I sold the p990 |
gaming_guy
Joined: Oct 10, 2006
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From: UK
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on my linux firewall/router, var holds most of the logs and tmp is the tempory directory
K700i > K750i > K810i (current phone)
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Mudbug
Joined: Feb 03, 2009
Posts: 3
From: Manchester UK
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Good info, well done. |
Superluminova
Joined: Feb 24, 2002
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From: ...Mummies Tummy!
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Got myself one of the new MacBooks last week and i have to say its pants!
Very slow and freezes all the time, gonna take it back and spend the extra money getting a higher spec model.
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p900 lover
Joined: Jan 08, 2004
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From: London
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Which one did you go for? The 2.0 GHz aluminum one?
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Superluminova
Joined: Feb 24, 2002
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yeah that was the one.
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