10.4.6 extreme slowdown and swapfile use

I have an i7 15" with 4gb ram and 80gb free space on its disk.
I had installed Safari 5 before getting the MacOSXUpdCombo 10.6.4.
After the install the problem started. An extreme slowdown with few programs open.
I like to keep an eye on swapfile space so watch /private/var/vm. I found that for the first time I had more than 3 swapfiles. In point of fact I had 13!! or about 10Gigs. This was why the MacBook Pro was almost unusable.
I reinstalled the update and with only Safari running it was again spawning swapfiles. Did all the usual: caches, permissions, disabled extensions and add-ons to safari and it was still eating disk space.
However I may have found the cure. I have just downloaded the standalone Safari 5 installed it and it has so far cured the problem.

Thanks for the suggestion of Whatsize. It didn't reveal any invisible folders with my data inside.
Whatsize from <http://www.id-design.com/software/whatsize/> is intriguing in showing how much garbage is on the HD. It was surprising to see caches that I thought had been deleted were still on the disk.
I am currently back to 95% of files restored from other sources and i'm recovering my distributed assets from the net.
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    Thanks. That's a Mid-2007 model with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor. You can run any version of Mac OS X on it up to and including Mac OS X Lion, though for Lion you'd need to increase the memory to at least 2GB, something I'd recommend doing anyway; it's inexpensive and often can increase performance. Your iMac can take up to 6GB if RAM; 4GB is probably a good compromise between cost and performance with a 4GB kit costing about $50.00 US from a reliable vendor such as Crucial.
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    As to upgrading the operating system, as I said, you can upgrade to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, or Mac OSX  10.7 Lion (the most recent release).  Apple no longer lists Mac OS X 10.5 on their web site, but if you call the Apple Store you may still be able to purchase a copy. Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard is easily available as is Lion though with Lion you'd need the $69.00 USB flash drive installer or you'd need to purchase and install Snow Leopard first (other than on the flash drive, Lion is only available from the Mac App Store which can only be accessed from Mac OS X 10.6.6. or later). Before you decide, I'd strongly suggest you find out what versions of Mac OS X your applications and perpherals will support, either as they or with a free or affordable update. I'd suspect most of your applications and peripheral drivers would need to be upgraded, at least to support Snow Leopard or Lion. If you consider Lion, make sure of your applications; Lion will no longer run PowerPC-only applications, so many older appliations will not run under Lion.
    Finally, as to Microsoft Word documents which is what I presume you mean, you can of course just purchase Microsoft Office. There are other ways to work with Word documents, though. If you just need to view Word documents, TextEdit in MOSX 10.6 and 10.7 (and perhaps 10.5; I can't remember) can open and view many Word Documents. For something a bit more capable, you can purchase Apple's Pages, part of the iWork suite and now available separately for Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7, or try one of the open-source solutions such as LibreOffice.
    Regards.

  • My Macbook Air has suddenly become extremely slow and is always crashing?

    Hi, I would really appriciate some help right now.
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    I would really appricate some help! I am really sick of having to deal with this. I have no idea what is going on or how to fix it, or why this has suddenly happened after a week of being away from my computer.
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