Mac Slowdown

10 Second Tip : Repair Disk Permissions

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by Chris Foley on April 23, 2010

It’s inevitable.  Sooner or later, no matter how well you take care of your Mac, you’re going to experience some slow performance and be confronted with the dreaded, spinning pinwheel, also known as the spinning beach ball, sometimes known as the spinning pinwheel of death. No one wants a slow Mac, so here’s this week’s [...]

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10 Second Tip: Going beyond Mac OSX "Permissions Repair"

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by Chris Foley on February 8, 2010

Here’s a great (and brief) article from MacWorld’s Christopher Breen covering what to do when your permissions issues go beyond what your Mac’s built-in Disk Utility software will repair.   While rare, this issue is one I’ve seen before, often when someone is moving from an older version of OSX (like 10.2 Jaguar or 10.3 [...]

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The Apple TV issue that wasn’t an Apple TV issue at all

by Chris Foley on December 16, 2009

The Apple TV issue that wasn’t an Apple TV issue at all or How Tech Professionals can sometimes be knuckleheads too I have decided to post this article because I recently had a tech issue in my own home that I completely misdiagnosed, and wasted an awful lot of time on.  My clients tell me [...]

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Happy Healthy Mac: Fight the Slowdown

by Chris Foley on December 13, 2008

This month I’m willing to bet that your computer is under as much stress as you are, what with online holiday shopping, keeping your finances balanced, sending and receiving 60% more personal correspondence than is normal (or healthy!), printing out mailing labels for holiday cards, creating your iPhoto gift calendars, and all of that on [...]

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Healthy Happy Mac : Permissions

by Chris Foley on November 9, 2008

This monthly column is offered as an exclusive to our newsletter subscribers, and contains information that will save you money by increasing your productivity and your uptime.  How’s that sound? —————— This month, I’m going to address a tech trick that is at the same time one of the most common maintenance problems for the [...]

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