Need help. Have a Imac with OSX 10.4
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anonymous Mac Tech
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Start by finding out why it's running slow. If you truly don't know where to start, then take it to someone who does.
Actually, there is a Ccleaner for Mac.
How bad is it acting?
i know there is a ccleaner. lol. it doesnt work on osx 10.4, nor does any of the other cleaning tools i use on macs. 10.4 is lion released 2005.
its not really that bad. They just use it to browse the web and email. Bit its hasnt been serviced in 5 or 6 years.
Everything is running fine for the most part.
Whenever I deal with Macs the first thing I use id the Disc utility. and since it's 10.4 that is when exactly it becomes more beneficial than fsck (command).
Besides Ccleaner there is also CleanMyMac. Check out if all the programs are actually quit. Remember Mac doesn't really shutdown anything until you quit.
Check this article out, too! http://www.maclife.com/article/feature/25_ways_speed_your_mac
Besides Ccleaner there is also CleanMyMac. Check out if all the programs are actually quit. Remember Mac doesn't really shutdown anything until you quit.
Check this article out, too! http://www.maclife.com/article/feature/25_ways_speed_your_mac
Markverhyden
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Do you have the recovery disk? If so you can boot from it and run disk repair and repair permissions.
But, to be honest, since it's a flavor of *nix a lot of that stuff usually does not produce significant results. Also, iMacs from that era had known issues with the logic boards.
To be honest if it was me and all they used it for was web surfing and email I would back up the emails, nuke and pave with the recovery disk. Because it's a PPC machine the highest you can go is Leopard.
But, to be honest, since it's a flavor of *nix a lot of that stuff usually does not produce significant results. Also, iMacs from that era had known issues with the logic boards.
To be honest if it was me and all they used it for was web surfing and email I would back up the emails, nuke and pave with the recovery disk. Because it's a PPC machine the highest you can go is Leopard.
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Saying you picked up a Mac is like saying I picked up a Dell, help me fix it. A little more info would be helpful.
It running 10.4 measn it is most likely a Power PC and any tools for Intel Macs won't work. You can try Onyx as suggested to check things out.
What about the drive? With a machine that old running slow, that would be a good place to start looking.
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Stripy lions? You're getting your cats mixed up. Meow.
But seriously I would first use the tools in disk utility to check the disk out, or Disk Warrior.
After imaging the drive of course...
ohio_grad_06
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My old Macbook was 10.4 with a core2duo. Tiger is the cat for 10.4. Diskwarrior was one. Techtools was good. Being intel, it probably would boot off a linux cd to do some basic hardware testing.
