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Symptoms The following are examples of messages that may appear in the Disk Utility log window when repairing disk permissions.
Mac OS X: Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions messages that you can safely ignore
Sometimes, when using the erase free space function of Disk Utility, the process will be interrupted by a crash, hang, power outage, or small mammal urinating on the power supply.
Recovering From a Failed Secure Erase Free Space | mac geekery
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The following table details supported Bluetooth profiles by device when using the latest version of iOS .
iOS: Supported Bluetooth profiles
Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk
This extract from a chapter of our book Troubleshooting Mac® OS X describes several ways to free-up space on your Mac OS X startup disk, also known as your Mac OS X boot volume. While you could replace your current hard drive with a larger model, or install a second internal hard drive if your Mac will support such, the following tips will help you to free some space without changing your hardware. Additional tips are provided for saving more space if you have a second internal hard drive or an available partition. Determining available space on your startup disk
If you’ve used a tool like DaisyDisk to analyze your Mac’s disk space usage, you may have come across a file named ‘sleepimage’ that is rather large. What is sleepimage in Mac OS X? The ‘sleepimage’ file is just what it sounds like, it’s what your Mac had in it’s memory when the machine went to sleep, creating an image of your Mac’s previous memory state. When your Mac wakes from sleep, the content of sleepimage is read again and placed back into active memory, and your Mac is returned to the state that it was in prior to sleeping. Think of it like a swapfile of sorts, but for sleep and wake functionality only. Why is sleepimage taking up so much space?
sleepimage – the Mac OS X sleepimage file explained
Freeing Up Hard Disk Space
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Activity Monitor can be found in Macintosh HD / Applications / Utilities / (in Finder press CMD+SHIFT+U) or via Spotlight (CMD+SPACE) : Activity Monitor gives you the option to show only your user account's processes ( My Processes ) and all user account's processes ( All Processes ) and a variety of other selections.Using Activity Monitor to read System Memory and determine how much RAM is being used
Mac OS X has very efficient memory management.To identify your MacBook Pro model, use the information in How to identify MacBook Pro models . Once you're sure which model you have, find it in the list below to go to the instructions for that model.
MacBook Pro: How to remove or install memory
Mac Manual, The This guide supplies you with numerous tips, tricks and free applications.
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