PLease advise on increasing the speed of my iMac 2008. It is running slowly and accesses the HDD a lot. Perhaps re-installation? Thanks.
I need to increase the speed of my iMac late 2008 (3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo). It has 4G of DDR2 SDRAM and a 500G HDD.
I back this up regularly with time machine.
If a fresh installation is advised, how do I do this?
Thanks
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Then try the action that you're having trouble with again. Select any messages that appear in the Console window. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
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I have the following scenario.
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Can we do that with the help of an RFC, can we deal with Links in RFC, is there any such FM??
Regards>
SAP LEARNER wrote:
> Can we open a URL link from an RFC and access the data in the link.
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> I have the following scenario.
>
> I have a URL link and it opens a KM folder in the Portal server and I need to put a PDF file in that KM folder
>
> Can we do that with the help of an RFC, can we deal with Links in RFC, is there any such FM??
>
> Regards
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