I'm Stumped!

[chriskleeman]

Hi Buck,

When you open up a reply window to a post, below the text box on the lower right you'll see two smaller windows. The first one says "Manage Current Attachments", and below that, you'll see another blank window with a "Browse Button", with a green "Upload" box next to that. Once you've made the file on your computer, hit the "Browse" button, locate the file on your computer and hit "Upload".

HTH,

Chris

[Paddy]

A reinstall won't help if you're short of RAM.

To upload a picture, click on "Add Reply" and you'll see the options - "Fast Reply" won't give you any for uploading an image. (If you do hit "Fast Reply" then just click on "more options"...

Once you've got the full reply window open, you'll see a "choose file" button on the right hand side below the window. Click on that, navigate to your screenshot on your HD and then select it, and click "Upload". The picture will always be at the end of your post, BTW.

[Xairbusdriver]

Good advice, Bbob! And, if you find out how to get your wife to do that, please let me know! If I didn't know better, I'd think she was brought up using Windows!

[Buck]

Well, well, well.
Stopped usung Safari and switched to Firefox.
Guess what. So far no more spinning Pin Wheel.
Now why would Safari start acting up suddenly.
Safari had been my browser of choice but no longer.
I liked that one could type one or two letters
in google search & Safari would finish the spelling of that word.
Oh well, guess one can't have it all, right.
I hope this is the end of the problem.
If not, I'll be back. Thank you all for all the input. Buck

P.S. Forgot to mention that Safari would
 stop responding or it would just up and
 quit offten, multiple times on a daily bases.
I would file reports but got nothing in return.

[Highmac]

Pop back any time.

You don't have to have a problem to post

[jchuzi]

Buck:

You don't have to give up on Safari. There's nothing wrong with it, per se. Try emptying the Safari cache, clearing it's History and perhaps some other housecleaning chores. Another problem with early versions of Safari involved site-specific icons. I turned that feature off in those versions and it improved Safari's performance. Later versions have no issues that way.

You can do some of these things with the appropriate version of OnyX if memory serves. I don't entirely recall how to do them in your version of Safari but you can start with the Safari menu and Safari preferences.

[Buck]

Daily I run Maintenance apps. The ones I do run are.
Mainmenu.
Yasu.
Onyx.
Maintenance.
Cocktail.
I don't run all every day mind you.
But these I do run.
Mainmenu seems to do a fine job on
getting the cache cleared on all browsers.
I run this one more that once a day.
I even run Applejack When things start getting to redical.

[jchuzi]

I assume that you are using OnyX to run the Automation tab. As far as I recall, that doesn't include anything about site-specific icons. Since I no longer have the 10.4 version of OnyX, I can't experiment but you might want to explore the features in OnyX's other tabs. Ditto for Cocktail's Pilot tab. I don't use the other utilities that you mentioned so I can't say anything about them.

[Xairbusdriver]

Maintenance (free) is simply a slimmed down version of OnyX (commercial).
Maintenance doesn't do anything that Onyx doesn't.
The point really is, not what you run, but how. Onyx, in particular, has a very complicated interface but is designed to do a lot of things that Maintenance doesn't. Some of those apps do many of the same things. I'm not sure that having more than one app to do the same thing is useful or even advisable; do they do the same thing in the same or safest manner? If not, which one is doing it correctly? Are they all the most current version for your OS? If they haven't been updated for your OS version, should they still be used?

There were several suggestions in this thread that you have not responded to. The computer is quite a complicated contraption and must usually be examined in a very simple, rational, step-by-step manner. While a shotgun can get rid of the fox in the chicken yard, it won't actually solve the problem. I fear that you are reading them, you feel you can't or don't need to try the suggestions. Of course, getting more than one suggestion a day (sometimes even within hours) can seem confusing and frustrating. But, until each suggestion is actually tried, no one will ever know if it worked.

Your problems sound like a combination of too little RAM and too full browser caches. Browsers like to 'feel' like they are fast. A common way of making that happen is to store every page you visit in RAM as opposed to actually downloading the page(s) each time. You can set the limit on how much RAM they can use (browser prefs). You can clear the caches more often (browser menu). You can easily buy more  RAM (check the supplied links above) (although installing it in an eMac may be another story). Once a browser fills available real RAM, it will start trying to use virtual RAM, your hard drive. Paddy mentioned, that can take extremely long, in computer terms, to happen. Changing browsers will only work if the caches have been emptied before it is started up.

It might not be a bad idea to start reading the thread over, from the beginning and writing down the suggestions as they come up. Then, start trying them, one at a time, and writing down the results. This will obviously take time and patience, as the problems usually take a certain amount of time to actually occur.

[jchuzi]

Jim:

I have to make a two corrections.

Maintenance (free) is simply a slimmed down version of OnyX (commercial).
OnyX is free also.

You can set the limit on how much RAM they can use (browser prefs).
You can't do that in OS X although you could in 9 via the Get Info window. OS X automatically allocates memory, on the fly, to the particular app that is being used. The only exception that I know of is Photoshop which does have a provision in its preferences for allocating RAM.

[Paddy]

Buck, the problem is that you really DO have too little RAM for your Mac to function really well - and browsers (all of them, as far as I've been able to see) have memory leaks. So while Firefox may be snappy now, you're quite likely to see the same issues with it at some point.

As I've said, unless you're planning on getting an Intel Mac in the near future, it's well worth it to invest in a couple of 512MB sticks of RAM, if you can swing it. I don't think you'll regret it.

[Xairbusdriver]

You're correct. Both Maintenance and OnyX are free. A visit to the Titanium site will explain which is more suited for ones needs.

Safari and FF both allow limiting cache RAM in their prefs.

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RAM for general purposes is already acknowledged as being marginal. Limiting cache RAM is about the only alternative available, in this case. Along with running only one app at a time, removing as many background apps as possible and removing any and all hacksies.

[jchuzi]

Thanks for that, Jim. I have never played with cache RAM settings so I didn't know about it. I rarely use Firefox so I haven't played much with its preferences either.

[Buck]

QUOTE(Xairbusdriver @ Feb 28 2011, 09:53 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Maintenance (free) is simply a slimmed down version of OnyX (commercial).
Maintenance doesn't do anything that Onyx doesn't.
The point really is, not what you run, but how. Onyx, in particular, has a very complicated interface but is designed to do a lot of things that Maintenance doesn't. Some of those apps do many of the same things. I'm not sure that having more than one app to do the same thing is useful or even advisable; do they do the same thing in the same or safest manner? If not, which one is doing it correctly? Are they all the most current version for your OS? If they haven't been updated for your OS version, should they still be used?

There were several suggestions in this thread that you have not responded to. The computer is quite a complicated contraption and must usually be examined in a very simple, rational, step-by-step manner. While a shotgun can get rid of the fox in the chicken yard, it won't actually solve the problem. I fear that you are reading them, you feel you can't or don't need to try the suggestions. Of course, getting more than one suggestion a day (sometimes even within hours) can seem confusing and frustrating. But, until each suggestion is actually tried, no one will ever know if it worked.

Your problems sound like a combination of too little RAM and too full browser caches. Browsers like to 'feel' like they are fast. A common way of making that happen is to store every page you visit in RAM as opposed to actually downloading the page(s) each time. You can set the limit on how much RAM they can use (browser prefs). You can clear the caches more often (browser menu). You can easily buy more  RAM (check the supplied links above) (although installing it in an eMac may be another story). Once a browser fills available real RAM, it will start trying to use virtual RAM, your hard drive. Paddy mentioned, that can take extremely long, in computer terms, to happen. Changing browsers will only work if the caches have been emptied before it is started up.

It might not be a bad idea to start reading the thread over, from the beginning and writing down the suggestions as they come up. Then, start trying them, one at a time, and writing down the results. This will obviously take time and patience, as the problems usually take a certain amount of time to actually occur.

And how does one empty a browsers cache befor launching said browser?

[Xairbusdriver]

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And how does one empty a browsers cache befor launching said browser?

Usually by starting up a never used browser or reinstalling one after deleting all its files or using the browsers cache removing options just before quitting it or running an app that removes 'web' caches. As son as you visit another site, before quitting and before limiting the caching prefs, you will (re)create the cache file(s).