[Ti] Slow finder on a 17" Al

khyber courchesne courchesne at onebox.com
Thu Mar 11 11:33:59 PST 2004 

Nope, no startup apps.  No 3rd party things (other than USBoverdrive, which
has never been a problem on other machines).  I'm thinking archive and
install the system.  Better than posting messagesd to boards and
troubleshooting things that shouldn't have to be troubleshot.

Thanks all!

> From: "Dave Cedrone" <d_cedrone at hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: "PowerBook G4 Titanium List"<Titanium at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:00:24 -0500
> To: "PowerBook G4 Titanium List" <Titanium at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: Re: [Ti] Slow finder on a 17" Al
> 
> do you have any apps that automatically start up when you boot? pull them
> out of the startup folder if there are.....
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> From: khyber courchesne <courchesne at onebox.com>
> Reply-To: "PowerBook G4 Titanium List" <Titanium at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> To: "PowerBook G4 Titanium List" <Titanium at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: Re: [Ti] Slow finder on a 17" Al
> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:50:01 -0800
> 
> Lee, thanks for the advice....I see a lot of things with
> abbreviations.......smb, etc.....but nothing I'd know what to delete or
> modify...
> 
> Thanks!
> 
>> From: Lee Wilmeth <lw at wilmeth.net>
>> Reply-To: "PowerBook G4 Titanium
> List"<Titanium at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
>> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 11:15:57 -0700
>> To: "PowerBook G4 Titanium List" <Titanium at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Ti] Slow finder on a 17" Al
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>> Lee Wilmeth, Computer Consultant
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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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