Why does emptying the garbage take so long now? It has greatly slowed down my workflow.

Before Mountain Lion and maybe even Lion came out emptying the trash was instantaneous... What the **** happened. Now if my hardrive gets full and I have a **** load of stuff to remove it takes HOURS to do so. This is ridiculous, why does it take so long to delete something?

Have you checked the option to Empty the Trash Securely? That will slow it down significantly.

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Likewise, my memory is that a year ago, downloading an hour-long hi-def TV episode that was bought on iTunes took abouit 20-30 mins. So why does it now take TWO HOURS?!?
My infrastructure is the same: broadband connection with over 100Mbps down, iPhone 4s, iPad 3.
WHY has downloading from Match gotten SO SLOW on iOS devices? On my new iMac it is blazing fast. And a year ago, it was rather quick (as detailed above).
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prik67 wrote:
i formatted the Hard Drive from Disk Utility in order to Re-install OSX Lion...The download time first shown was like 53 hours and then after like 10 minutes it went down to 10 hours...i am pretty sure thst the internet connection i have is very fast, so why does downloading OSX Lion take so long?
It's about 4GB, from memory, and the download speed can be affected from things like site traffic or variations in speed from your own ISP. But in general, it IS a very large download. Also never put your trust in a computer telling you how much time is left to download. As you can see, it recalculates everything more often and more quickly than the Tax Department! (Oh, and don't watch it. You know the old saying)
Cheers
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Why does downloading OSX Lion take so long??

i formatted the Hard Drive from Disk Utility in order to Re-install OSX Lion...The download time first shown was like 53 hours and then after like 10 minutes it went down to 10 hours...i am pretty sure thst the internet connection i have is very fast, so why does downloading OSX Lion take so long?

prik67 wrote:
i formatted the Hard Drive from Disk Utility in order to Re-install OSX Lion...The download time first shown was like 53 hours and then after like 10 minutes it went down to 10 hours...i am pretty sure thst the internet connection i have is very fast, so why does downloading OSX Lion take so long?
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Cheers
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Bad cable? Bad USB port? Something corrupt in the album itself?
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Why does my iPad Air takes a long time to charge?

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See these articles for some suggestions:
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*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/How+to+set+the+home+page - Firefox supports multiple home pages separated by '|' symbols
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One huge factory is the speed of your Internet connection. Read here:
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When I empty the 'secure trash' folder, it takes hours to perform what use to take seconds or minutes to do.

Try deleting less at one time.
Unless you're trying to get rid of malware/dodgy software, there's not really much point in using 'secure empty trash' if what you're worried about is someone recovering your deleted files. Experts can still recover stuff even after that.
The only way to get rid of your data securely is to overwrite the entire disk several times with zeros (Disk Utility has a function for this, and it will take a long time.).
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Are you doing that via History > Clear Recent History ?
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Clear+Recent+History
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Every time I delete a photo, Aperture stops, the pointer turns into a beach ball and about 5-10 seconds later, the single picture is deleted. Why is this happening? It's really tedious when you are trying to delete a number of pictures.

Rick Lang wrote:
I do believe Apple strongly recommends your Aperture Library be on an internal drive. Physically it will run on an external drive but it is not recommended. You may have some other large files that could be relocated to an external drive so you can put Aperture on the internal drive.
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Your thoughts?
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Check current connection, use speedtest.net
Make sure DNS is set to automatic (settings - general - network)
If on wifi try ethernet
Go to istumbler.net to get a report of the network, look for signal strength and noise.
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That rules out recursive Text Inset imports (that import themselves). Your problem is apt to "merely" be instances of copy-into-document.
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<ImportObject
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<ImportObject
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   <RunaroundGap 6.0 pt>
   <RunaroundType Contour>
=TIFF
<ImportObject
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   <Fill 7>
   <RunaroundGap 6.0 pt>
   <RunaroundType Contour>
=EPSI
followed by metadata and thousands of lines of hex code.
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Close your iTunes,
Go to command Prompt -
(Win 7/Vista) - START/ALL PROGRAMS/ACCESSORIES, right mouse click "Command Prompt", choose "Run as Administrator".
(Win XP SP2 & above) - START/ALL PROGRAMS/ACCESSORIES/Command Prompt
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netsh winsock reset
Hit "ENTER" key
Restart your computer.
If you do get a prompt after restart windows to remap LSP, just click NO.
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iTunes 10.5 for Windows: May see performance issues and blank iTunes Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4123?viewlocale=en_US

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