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freshwest

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1. Same thing I have. Is this the original hard drive? How many gigs are free?

Tue Feb 26, 2013, 11:47 PM

Feb 2013

Those are two things you could work on to ease the problem. The other thing is when Finder starts to freeze up is shut down my programs and do a Restart.

Finder often freezes if my browser is stuck loading something from a website. I count to three and if it's not going, I back out. That is often the cause of the freezing. Check your cache and cookies, that causes problems, too.

Another is loading a large iTunes library, or it's busy with Time Machine. If it's backing up, at times Finder will freeze up and not allow doing other things.

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HELP. i am NOT a puter geek, which is WHY i have an OLD OSX from 2006. [View all] pansypoo53219 Feb 2013 OP

Same thing I have. Is this the original hard drive? How many gigs are free? freshwest Feb 2013 #1

Do a Software Update. Clear your desktop and put everything there into a folder. NYC_SKP Feb 2013 #2

I'm in the process of transferring stuff to my new 2TB Passport. freshwest Feb 2013 #3

no itunes. more pictures. pansypoo53219 Feb 2013 #6

trying to clean desk top, but it freezes pansypoo53219 Feb 2013 #5

Look at the top bar running across the top of the screen. freshwest Feb 2013 #8

yeah. original. tho i changed identies. pansypoo53219 Feb 2013 #4

I don't allow my Hard Drive to show on the Desktop. Just folders and external drives. freshwest Feb 2013 #7