[G4] Crawling Finder

[Eric Wood]

This is an interesting bit of info, but what about the Finder being so
slow? Surely that setting has nothing to do with that?

Eric

On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 10:40 -0700, Harry Freeman wrote:
> 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.
> ----------------------------------------------------
> 
> 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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