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[GEEKY] How to fix slow Skype on Leopard

(Click for enlargement) Upon updating to the latest Mac OS X 10.5, a.k.a Leopard, I noticed that Skype was ridiculously slow, hanging and doing other ugly things. A search of the web didn’t find any useful ideas, at least that worked for me.

Here’s what fixed it. In Skype “General Preferences” there’s an option to “Show Address Book Contacts”.

Well I have a fairly huge address book - about 3000 people. Somehow Skype was driving itself crazy trying to show them. 

 

Unclicking the “Show Address Book Contacts” check box solved it for me.

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This entry was posted on Friday, April 11th, 2008 at 5:52 am and is filed under Life. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “[GEEKY] How to fix slow Skype on Leopard”

  1. Joe Weeden Says:
    April 14th, 2008 at 9:35 am

    Thanks it fixed my problem. I have tiger and I had the same problem. With 3000 contacts skype cannot handle it. Thanks again.

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