[Ti] Slow finder on a 17" Al

[Lee Wilmeth]

Check to make sure it's not looking for an Active Directory Server. 
This setting is located in Directory Services in the Utilities Folder. 
It can take as much as 5-10 minutes to time out.

Lee

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On Mar 11, 2004, at 10:52 AM, khyber courchesne wrote:

> Thanks for the tip john.
> Unfortunealty the beachball of death happens right off any fresh 
> reboot, so
> the console shows nothing.  In fact, Activity Monitor doesn't really 
> show a
> spike either.  Still 3-5 minutes to get a finder window, either from
> Command-N or clicking on a desktop folder.
>
>
>>
>> khyber courchesne typed this message on 3/8/04 3:09 PM:
>>
>>> My finder has slowed to a crawl.  Takes a few minutes to open a 
>>> folder, even
>>> from with a ³save as² box within a different application like 
>>> photoshop.
>>> Sometimes it just hangs altogether and I need to force quit.  It 
>>> doesn¹t
>>> even always quit with a force quit.
>>>
>>> I¹ve tried trashing my pref file, updating prebinding, dumping 
>>> caches, fsck,
>>> repair permissions etc.  I¹ve read somewhere about a .DS file, but I 
>>> don¹t
>>> know what that is.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> I would suggest you open Console and see if there are any processes 
>> that are
>> hogging the processor and/or RAM. If there is, quit it from the 
>> Console and
>> see if that makes a difference.
>>
>
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