thanks. i think i have some applications on there that don't get used. i think there is something on there called flash that i don't use. does anyone know how to see whether music files are taking up a lot of space?
thanks. i've been using the disk utility nearly every day now and i suspect that helps as things are closer to normal more or less. i'd used it a year ago and had forgotten about it till now... do you think all these problems were due to the computer's age and the face my hard drive is so full...
Re Mail, initially when I tried to delete I was getting this compaction error/disk may be full message instead and then I googled that error and was able to follow this thread for my Mail troubles: http://www.macosx.com/content/faq.php/q135/Mac-Osx--Mail-Problems.html
I think I tried too hard...