

When this happens your Mac can have a tough time finding or using that data, which slows down the overall performance of your machine. Sometimes information can be damaged in some way. This helps your operating system find the data and make sense of that information, retrieving it from storage on the disk or volume. Your Mac stores all your data in a directory on your disk. All your data is software, too, so even this can be affected. Macs are computers and like any computer the software on your disk can degrade. Thanks.You are experiencing degraded system performance after a power cut.

Any suggestions? Individual replies invited at vicjoe shaw ca. It would be a horror show for me to revert to the less capable Safari browser, so if the memory leaks in Firefox are creating a humongous log file somewhere, I'd rather just delete it if I could find it. Is there a way to poll the entire startup disk for the largest single file? I've been having issues with my preferred browser, Firefox 3.x around memory leaks, but I can't find a log file to delete that may be causing the problem, see. If there is a log or temp file doing this, I can't find it. The 'view by size' feature in OS X (mine is tiger 10.4.11 with latest security update) is worthless. Today I got the warning "startup disk almost full" and the 'get info' claims 115.98 of 16.31 is occupied - there's no way I've suddenly acquired an additional 93 gb in the past few days by surfing the web (no new programs installed). I have an extreme case: my startup disk is 116 gb until a few days ago (last time I checked) the filled amount was only 23 gb.
