[G4] Crawling Finder

[Eric Wood]

Wow, I have a Performa 6214 myself, so I know what you're talking about!
First thought is, if some system files got messed up, let that be a
lesson never to give the wife superuser privileges.

My first serious suggestion is to try with a different user account.
This way you can isolate whether it's a problem with user prefs or the
system proper. If the problem runs deeper than the user account, you
might be looking at reinstallation. I can't imagine that whatever is
wrong could be very easily corrected otherwise.

Eric

On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 20:58 -0400, The Sargents wrote:
> Hi,
> 	I've got a 933 Mhz Quicksilver G4 with 768 mb of Ram running 
> 10.4.8. The other day the wife was dragging many many many files to 
> the trash when the machine instead started copying them to the desk 
> top. She tried unsuccessfully to abort the operation  but could not 
> stop it. She had to force quit the finder . Upon restart there are no 
> icons on the desktop, not even hard drives, and the finder is 
> amazingly slow to react. I repaired permissions after booting from 
> the OS X install disk, no change. Ran Disk Warrior, no change. 
> Started up in Single user mode,  ran fsck and then removed the 
> finder.plist and sidebar.plist per The X Lab web site. Still slow and 
> painful to work with (reminds me of my Performa 6200) :-( Tried Drive 
> Genius- slightly faster, still no desktop. My Konfabulator widgets 
> see my hard drives and all my menu items are there (S.M.A.R.T. 
> status, WeatherPop, JumpCut, Konfabulator, etc) Applications run, 
> albeit slowly.
> 	Any help would be appreciated!