[G4] Crawling Finder

[Harry Freeman]

Greetings ( + )!( + )

Sargents there is a flag that can get set that tells the OS not to 
display anything on the desktop. I don't know where the flag is located 
in the core operating system but, if you have "TinkerTool" there is a 
check-box under the Finder-tab that says "Use the Desktop" which needs 
to be checked, other wise almost nothing shows up on the desktop.

There are other utilities that provide the same option, so if you don't 
have "TinkerTool" but some one of the various system utilities, like 1. 
Cocktail, 2. MacJanitor, 3. OnyX, 4. MOX Optmize, then check them out 
and see if they have the "Hide the Desktop" feature.
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On Oct 3, 2007, at 5:58 PM, 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!
> -- 
>
> Chris
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