OSX optimazations???

swishniak · Post by **swishniak** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 10:40 am

maybe this is obvious, but make sure there arent too many programs that are automatically starting up at login (see "login items" under the User section of Sys. Preferences). those guys can be sneaky.

also turn of the airport if you dont need it!

Homebelly · Post by **Homebelly** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 12:10 pm

sqook wrote:I'm sure that it can't hurt to do this, but the odds of the system clock using any more than 1% of CPU resources at any given time are very unlikely.

Fuck him then,,
I'll turn it back on.

jeskola · Post by **jeskola** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 12:40 pm

Turn of your widgets

forge · Post by **forge** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 12:49 pm

jeskola wrote:Turn of your widgets

how's that for a bizarre 21st century sentence

Oscar F · Post by **Oscar F** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 11:33 pm

forge wrote:
jeskola wrote:Turn of your widgets
how's that for a bizarre 21st century sentence

Especially when we spend so much of the day thinking about getting our widgets turned on.

tricil · Post by **tricil** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 1:26 am

if you don't hit dashboard after a reboot, the widgets will not load.

don't believe me? reboot, look at activity monitor and search for "dash" almost nothing should come up

then hit F12 or whatever hotkey you have for dash (i reassigned mine so i can use F12 in ableton) and then look at sys activity.

if you aren't using them, turn off bluetooth and airport as well.

DJSK · Post by **DJSK** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 2:51 am

Thanks guys, I appreciate the help. I have heard that there is also a way to delete your preferences folder to reset Live and get it to work better. I know how to do this in Windows but not in OSX. Anyone know?

noisetonepause · Post by **noisetonepause** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 9:41 am

DJSK wrote:Thanks guys, I appreciate the help. I have heard that there is also a way to delete your preferences folder to reset Live and get it to work better. I know how to do this in Windows but not in OSX. Anyone know?

Preferences on OS X are stored as simple (well, sometimes not so simple) regular files (there's no 'registry') in /Users/you/Library/Preferences/... the file you're looking for is com.ableton.live or something similar.

Edit - just checking, it's actually in a folder called 'Ableton' in the above folder.

PeReYrA · Post by **PeReYrA** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 3:06 pm

It May come in Handy!

http://www.imafish.co.uk/articles/post/ ... d-up-os-x/