My eMac is slowing down and my hard drive is filling up, what should I do?
I have a lot of music and movie files on my computer and just recenlty my computer has been slowing down. I only have 19 gb left on my 80gig hard drive. I don't know wether to buy more ram or get an external hard drive. I only have 256 mb of ram. Also as a side note my computer slows down drasticly when ever I run Limewire but it did not before. What is the reason for that and how can it be fixed. (note: I'm not a big limewire user and I only have 85 limewire songs compared to 2500 normal iTunes or Imported CD songs, so its not that limewire is the main thing i use for getting music, i just get random singles off of it) Why i does it basicly freeze my computer?
eMac Mac OS X (10.3.9) 1.25 ghz and 256 ram
I posted this...
http://tinyurl.com/7eqxs
to the iDVD4 group, but it still probably applies to your situation. So first thing I would do is what my post says to do and see if that doesn't help your eMac with freezing and slow downs.
If you are going to keep the computer, then I would definately go with more RAM. You have two slots and only one is filled, so I would buy a 512MB module and throw it into the other slot and you should be all set for RAM. Even another 256MB module would be better than what you have now.
Also, get an external Firewire hard drive. Either buy one premade or put one together yourself (buy external case and internal drive to put in it). You can put together a 160+GB drive for under $100. This will allow you to free up a lot of space inside the eMac by putting seldom used stuff onto the external drive. Or if you want, you can move your iTunes library off onto the external.
Patrick
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