I recently added a second HD and addition memory (4 gb) to my Dual-core Intel Mac Pro.
Since then, I’ve experienced a lot of spinning ball time in Photoshop. It starts out OK but gradually gets slower and slower until it’s unusable, especially when performing transforms or refreshing brushstrokes. I tried removing the new hard drive and individual memory modules (even using the original modules that it shipped with) to no avail. Anyone have any ideas what might be causing this and how to remedy it? Thanks very much.!
I have the same problem. works fine for a while, then progressively gets slower and slower. I’m working with 4.5 gigs ram at 70%. dedicated internal SATA scratch disk, and is marked as the first drive in preferences. G5 dual 2ghz. It even happens if I have only photoshop open after computer fresh restart. Images are being opened off of a 7200RPM firewire 800 drive. (we’re talking that it takes 30 seconds to OPEN a PSD file that is 36MB uncompressed, and saved at about 9 MB). Mac OS 10.5.5 (but its been happening since early 10.5.x, and somewhat since 10.4.x)
that would be probably never. at least not in the last few years… is it really going to help THAT much? the scratch drive isn’t fragmented (since its empty)… boot drive could probably use it though I guess.
something else I tried – I removed all of the external data drives except for the one that I am currently working off of, and it helped a little bit, but I wouldn’t say its "speedy" especially considering the files are so small
I just now bought it, but can’t run it ’til alsoft sends me the serial #. argh…
Did you format the drive before you started using it? If a new drive that you’ve installed, it could very well be preformatted for Windows machines, and it will be slower on a Mac. Use Disk Utility and select: Erase –> Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
Unless Alsoft have changed the way that they do things, you will need to wait for the CD to arrive in the mail because you need to have DiskWarrior on a CD so that you can use it to boot your Mac Β otherwise you will not be able to repair your System HD.
However, you should be able to install the downloaded version on your System HD and can then use that to repair non-boot drives.
If the CD contains DW 4.0, and doesn’t contain DW 4.1, you will also need to download the free Upgrade and create a new CD for yourself by following Alsoft’s instructions.
I do have a separate boot drive, so I don’t think that is an issue. I also can’t wait 2-3 WEEKS for the disk to show up (apparently they were affected by hurricane Ike?) so I’ll just have to kludge it together to get it to work.
Alsoft have this extraordinary habit of always having some excuse as to why they can’t ship immediately but then they miraculously find a copy and ship it!
Actually, you should find DW in stock at your local Apple Store.
One way to use DW on your Boot Drive while waiting for the CD to arrive, might be to install DW on both drives; and to also install a System on your FWD.
Then boot from the FWD; and use DW from the FWD to repair your HD.
You probably won’t reach "0% files out of order" that way, but you can do a fairly major clean-up and Create a New Directory.
DW worked great. PSD is behaving like it should now.
I installed the DW, then ran Carbon Copy Cloner to a FW800 drive and then booted off that, then ran DW. No problems or missed files. Ramon if you are having problems maybe try using CCC.
I don’t really care about the differences between SuperDuper! and CCC, I used CCC because its the one I had, and it works fine to clone one drive to another and make it bootable. Use whatever works for you, it was just a means to an end.
Ramon- I was just commenting on where you mentioned that DW wouldn’t fix the drive properly from a boot volume that wasn’t the CD from Alsoft. Unless I am missing something, the software seemed to work fine and I didn’t get any errors.
I’ve worked on a few hundred files since doing the DW thing (regardless if I used superduper or CCC) and haven’t had the problems, so at the root of it, thanks Ann for the original suggestion of DW. I’ve been a mac pro since OS 7.5 and sometimes the obvious course is the one that escapes me!
The problem that can arise when running DW from another HD (as opposed to booting from the DW CD) is that when you check the repaired Disk, you may find that it still has a few (probably less than 1%) files "out of order". However, you should still find that performance has improved enormously regardless of the ">1%".
oh i see. I didn’t notice that, or at least it didn’t give me any notices that it didn’t fix them 100%. I’ll have to go back and look. But you are right, the performance is waaaaaay better now.
