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Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is 'Verified' then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If it does not say 'Verified' then the hard drive is failing or failed. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions Pre-Lion/Mountain Lionīoot from your OS X Installer disc. īoot into Safe Modethen repair your hard drive and permissions : Start with a visit to: OS X Maintenance - MacAttorney. If your computer seems to be running slower here are some things you can do: I'd like to start with an answer about defragmenting. Why does my Time Machine take so long to backup?

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If I do upgrade my OS will my software be incompatible and do I need the original software discs to reinstall them?

Should I backup the system via Time Machine before upgrading the OS to Snow Leopard, Lion or Mountain Lion?

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How to upgrade the OS to Snow Leopard, Lion or Mountain Lion. Should I find a way to defragment? If so, is there any 3rd party software that is recomended for an old system like this? Since then I have freed up about 100 GB, but its slow.

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I did fill the hard drive to the brim - to about 500 MB of free space. I also read somewhere that if you do happen to fill up your hard drive to the very brim the data will fragment regardless.

Plus, there is no utility to defrag in the OS. I read that after a certain OSX version the system does not need to defrag because the OS prevents the hard drive from fragmenting in the first place. A friend told me that maybe I need to defragment.

I know its not the software because its as old as the OS, so the system should be able to handle it, for example, I am running Adobe CS3. The CPU can be at 90% idle and it will still act slow. I've done all the recommended things, such as removing unnecessary startup programs, repairing disk permissions, freeing up hard drive space, monitoring the task manager for processes that take up a lot of CPU power and I've added more ram. How can I speed it up? It runs very sluggishly and I've tried just about everything to try to get it to speed up. I have several questions, but I will start with the biggest one. Its still running Leopard 10.5.8, which is te last version of Leopard (I believe). It is a 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4 GB of Ram.

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