Comments on: Does my mac need more memory?

By: betsy

betsy — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:35:29 +0000

This was extremely helpful, exactly the information I needed. Thank you for posting.

By: admin

admin — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 03:38:05 +0000

I’d post this question to the Apple Support Forums, or ring Apple as it sounds like a specific problem that might take a bit of troubleshooting.

Try ‘repair permissions’ from Disk Utility. That’s the first step for most problems.

Go to your ‘downloads’ folder in your documents folder in your home directory, do ‘Get Info’ and check your user (Me) has read and write permissions.

By: Jeet

Jeet — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:30:34 +0000

On the Disk Usage part of my activity monitor, it shows in green (free space) that I have 148.73 GB of unused space. The mac I have is OS X version 10.4.11. It has always caused me problems…. I hope you can help me. First of all I can’t download or save anything from documents to emails. Safari quits unexpectedly whenever I go on to youtube or even google. (When this happens it says: Safari quit unexpectedly. Reopen, Quit, or Report to mac). Some of the games I’ve downloaded through a CD quit as well. (When this happens it says: safari could not download the file because there is not enough free disk space. Try deleting documents or downloading to another file.) But how can I not have enough free space when the disk usage shows that I have 148.73 GB of free space!!! Please help as I have had this problem for more than 2 years. Thanks.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:12:17 +0000

This is hour hard drive full – not lack of RAM – delete some files! See this article:

http://macintoshhowto.com/hardware/how-to-free-up-some-hard-disk-space.html

By: Dee

Dee — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:38:35 +0000

I need some help. I am not much of a computer person. My desktop is a about 3 years old and is now telling me that the start up disk is full. I followed the instructions at the top checking the utilities folder and the circle graph shows very little memory. Also I cannot save any documents in Word. I would like to delete some stuff if I can rather than adding more RAM. Can I do this and how?
tks alot

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:33:19 +0000

Upgraded my ram in my MacBook pro to 8gb from the standard 4…. No noticeable difference in performance… Upgraded the Hd to an SSD…. And now it flies ;)

By: Luke

Luke — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:35:30 +0000

Hey thanks for this, this is a wonderful article and just saved me TOOOOONS of money, your awesome man!

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:11:14 +0000

I doubled my RAM to avoid creating lots of swap files. It helped, but I still create swapfiles even though I have 8BG of RAM and I never use more than 6GB. Shutting off the Apple Dynamic Pager did stop the computer from creating swap files in OS 10.6, but the Wired Memory displayed in Activity Monitor gradually grew to sizes I have never seen before. Using iFreeMem did nothing to convert Inactive Memory or the increased Wired Memory back into Free Memory. So far my best solution for avoiding slowdowns from swapping is to just restart the computer every week or so.

By: gh

gh — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:21:48 +0000

I came across this forum while searching to try and find why my Macbook runs hot and uses battery fast. This only occurs some of the time. From checking the Activity Monitor I noticed that Parallels (Windows emulator) is using 100% of my available memory. I assume that all other programs create pageouts. I see nobody has mentioned Parallels so it may not be the problem but I thought I’d throw it out. I don’t use Parallels a lot so I may uninstall it as I think it is loading on its own sometimes, depending on what work I’m doing.

By: Sheila

Sheila — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 23:54:21 +0000

My “System Memory” tab says I have 665MB of free space but when I go to disk usage it says I have completely full and have no free space. My computer won’t even let me save a file of homework. I dont know what to do!!!!!