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Subject: [Leica] OT: Apple Mac gets grindingly slow...(Now: LR Windows Too)
From: ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 23:03:20 -0500
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what is your bootdisk capacity and how much is free?

ric


On Dec 2, 2010, at 10:46 PM, Robert Baron wrote:

> Thanks, Richard.  I just did that and it apparently found no errors.  I say
> 'apparently' because I left it to run and when I came back it had finished
> rebooting and left me no visible report of finding anything wrong.
> 
> But I've still got the problem so it must be something else.  Maybe a
> failing video card?  I have no idea how to test for that.
> 
> Or maybe it is just that the program has got too complicated for its own
> good?
> 
> --Bob
> 
> ==On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Richard Man <richard at 
> imagecraft.com>wrote:
> 
>> Right click on drive, then Tools, then scan disk and check all the options
>> to fix errors etc.
>> 
>> If it says it can only do it on reboot, then do it.
>> 
>> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 5:40 AM, Robert Baron <robertbaron1 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Can anyone recommend a similar program for a Windows XP Pro desktop
>> setup?
>>> 
>>> The Develop Module in LR3 is giving me fits - it blinks on and off like a
>>> neon  sign in a bar - and since I keep all my program files on one
>> internal
>>> hard disk and images on others I'm starting to wonder if that disk is
>>> trying
>>> to tell me something I don't want to hear.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> --Bob
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 7:03 AM, Spencer Cheng <spencer at aotera.org>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I use an application called SmartReporter which monitors and warns of
>>> disk
>>>> problems for the Mac. It gave me 24 hour notice of my laptop drive's
>>>> impending failure a few months ago. Saved my bacon.
>>>> 
>>>> <http://www.corecode.at/smartreporter/>
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Spencer
>>>> 
>>>> On Dec 2, 2010, at 2:52, Peter Cheyne wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I never thought of it maybe being a failing internal hard drive.
>> I'll
>>> be
>>>> a bit more attentive to when it happens, but so far it seems only to
>>> happen
>>>> when editing a photos.
>>>> 
>>>> 
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>> 
>> 
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