Quick Answer: Try clearing some of the system memory.

The Whole Story

That is pretty much it.  I have a moderate amount of Apps installed, and each of the 3 home screen panes is about 1/3 to 1/2 full of icons.

My Solution

In the system settings, I sorted all applications by size. I noticed that my GMail storage was very large. Turns out, my GMail settings saved my entire inbox. Since I really didn’t need my whole inbox, I changed my settings to save only the last 30 days.

This put my system memory from about 7MB to over 24MB. That seemed to significantly improve performance.

However, I then noticed that the sync icon was in the status/notification bar at the top of the screen for a while.  Wile this icon was up, I also experienced slower performance.

Quick Solution: Use Disk Utility to Restore your old drive to your new drive, then tell Time Machine that you want to use a different disk

The Whole Story

When I got the 1TB drive, it was formatted as FAT32. I had been using Time Machine (I am running Mac OS 10.5.2) and I wanted to use my new drive for Time Machine, but I wanted to keep my current Time Machine history. My vision was to have the exact same data, but now my external drive can hold more. I ran into a few issues while trying to do this, so here is how I solved them.

Note: The sections “Formatting the new hard drive”, “Transfer the files”, and “Transfer Problems” narrate the problems I had while trying to just copy files… see the following section, “Use Disk Utility Instead”, for enumerated instructions on how I actually solved the problem.

Formatting the new hard drive

When I first plugged in the drive, Leopard recognized it. I thought that I might just be able to dump the files from my old external hard drive (formatted in HFS+) onto the new one (FAT32). When I selected the files to move and dragged them to the new folder, I heard the “pang” sound that Finder makes when you copy files, but nothing actually happened.

Since I will only use this new drive on a Mac, I thought maybe I should reformat to HFS+ (I also thought that Time Machine might require it). Using Disk Utility, I ran into a few vague errors and the disk would never be successfully formatted. I found the solution on the Apple Discussion Forums .

This basically says that you must select the highest parent of the drive you want to format

and select the “Partition” page.

Then go to “Options…” and select the top option: “GUID”.

The formatting should only take a few seconds.

The next page goes over transferring your files.

The quick answer: export your data and reinstall WordPress.

The whole story:

So I used the cPanel interface of the web hoster and created a subdomain, blog, and set the document root to /www/blog/. When I would try to pull up www.blog.thewebsite.com , the browser would just redirect to www.thewebsite.com/, and no blog would appear.

I was going to go through all of the things that I did to try to hack-up WordPress so that I would not have to reinstall, but then I realized that none of that actually worked. I could get far enough that the page would show up and about half of the links would work, but there ended up being an issue with the permalinks.

What I had to do was use the Manage->Export feature of the WordPress admin area to save my categories, posts, etc. Then, to uninstall WordPress, I deleted all of the tables in my WordPress database, then ran the install.php script again. I probably could have kept the users table, and perhaps a few other tables with the plugin settings, but I didn’t. So I had to reactivate my plugins and all of the other options that I had changed from the default values.

If you have a better fix for this, please leave a comment!