According to Tom Warner: >On Friday, April 11, 2003, at 05:27 pm, b wrote: > >>People who drag things to trash, rather than use keyboard commands, >>which happen quickly, won't notice the latency. Too many people >>have responded on and off list for this to be isolated. > >If I use the keyboard command to move files to the trash, it's >instant. No delay, no dialog. no fuss. Tap- gone. > >If I use keyboard command to empty trash, I get the dialog that asks >me if I'm sure. When I hit return, the trash is empty no delay no >fuss. > >What latency?? > >Tom Gee tom, do you suppose Apple's programmers put a DLOG in the code that tosses up a dialog that says," Preparing to Empty trash" just for my benefit? As I said, it is intermittent; That's like the opposite of constant. What latency? I trash a 2 GB file in OS 9, let's say, a copy of Windows 200 Professional, and it is one, two *poof* in OSX it may or may not be that way. I appreciate your comments, but not for their helpfulness. ~flipper