Speed Up Dashboard Loading Times

[Zurg]

I just saw this on Mac OS X Hints and found it to be a huge improvement

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?sto...061002101155933

[sunrisesister]

yah, i saw this on hardmac, and it DOES work!

[marc]

21.5mb and 1,500+ files here.

Thanks for the tip.

[stefanlod]

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21.5mb and 1,500+ files here.
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22mb&#33; I WIN&#33; :P Mind you it does work well&#33; Thanks for that tip&#33;

[mctext]

Trashed 8.1mb of cache files.
Ran Dashboard.
8.1mb of files returned to the caches folder&#33;
So maybe that&#39;s the min. size for that folder?



mct

[Normie]

Thank you for the post Zurg works great made a big dfference
Steve

[spilla]

It was only about 5mb for me, as I don&#39;t use it much. But I didn&#39;t notice that it loaded quicker than normal.

[W2ttsy]

has it affected things like IceTV or iStat? those things update pretty often, so i would think the caches would be getting used.

also the idea of mapping the cache folder to dev/null: was a good one.

W2ttsy

[sunrisesister]

lol i nuked 30MB, and theres now 368KB big diff in performance for me.

[Jaffa]

I had 4.1MB. Trashed it. Opened Dashboard again (after a killall Dock). WOW&#33; loads at least twice as fast as before.

[marc]

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22mb&#33; I WIN&#33; :P Mind you it does work well&#33; Thanks for that tip&#33;
[/b]

Hahah.

I just loaded dash after a restart... much quicker.

[Georgina EG]

Tried the exercise but although I went to Library>Caches, there was no DashboardClient mentioned. However, my Dashboard with 13 items showing takes less than a second to load so it isn&#39;t exactly slow.

[MrJesseRoss]

I only had 7.2mb. Slight noticeable difference in speed. But that&#39;s 7.2mb to fill up with more junk at least&#33;

[DJY]

23.8 MB here.
Was skeptical... but seems to indeed improve performance with Dashboard.
Great trick&#33;

Thanks

[Wheels]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Georgina EG &#064; Oct 13 2006, 11&#58;44 PM) [snapback]224632[/snapback]</div>

Tried the exercise but although I went to Library>Caches, there was no DashboardClient mentioned. However, my Dashboard with 13 items showing takes less than a second to load so it isn&#39;t exactly slow.
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Well if you do decide you wish to clear out the cache...
You are in the wrong folder, you need to go to ~/Library/Caches/DashboardClient
~/ being your local user folder. I think you were looking under the cache folder in your hard drive instead.

[ADAMS77]

Shit that makes a hell of a difference. i no longer regret opening dashboard now. Thanks
AAA+++

[Squozen]

No difference whatsoever. It was always fast for me.. /shrug

[hawker]

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Shit that makes a hell of a difference. i no longer regret opening dashboard now. Thanks
AAA+++
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Same Here... Why didn&#39;t someone find this out ages ago :P like the day after Tiger came out&#33;

[jeremy_warnock]

great tip - trashed 29megs and dashboard is usible again

[Jimbo]

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AAA+++
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LOL&#33;