[Ti] Nailed it! Re: slow Finder

[Erik Gaderlund]

This looks pretty reasonable, since you mentioned that a new user was 
just fine, that would certianly point to the agonizing problem of 
corrupted prefs.

erik g

P.S. I just spent the better part of this last weekend trying to get 
my brothers TiBook to see CDs and it's own hard drive!!  It was 
really weird, CDs, DMG woundn't mount.  You could go to the hard 
drive in the finder, but, it would not show up in any utilities, or 
installers (figured reinstall 10.2.8 Combo.)  It would boot CDs fine, 
and you could run whatever the CD had (Diskwarrior, TechTool Pro 4, 
etc.) but, all would come out ok or fix stuff, and nothing.  New 
user, nothing.  Firewire wouldn't work either--Target disk mode with 
my TiBook, or it in Target disk mode with my G4 wouldn't mount.  This 
all started after he synced his iPod mini, and wanted to start adding 
more CDs.  We had done a backup over ethernet to a DVD, so we just 
wiped the drive an installed Panther.


At 10:22 AM -0800 03/14/04, khyber courchesne wrote:
>As per Lisbeth's request, I'm reporting that the 1-5 minute wait for a
>Finder window has been fixed.  I trashed the sidebar.plist in my home
>folder.  Wait is now less than a second as it ought to be.  I have no clue
>what a "sidebar" is exactly.
>
>This is a file I copied from my old Ti.  The Ti had odd finder issues too
>(quit upon multiple select).
>
>When I get home I'm starting from scratch.  With this one problem I just
>wonder how many more there are.  Clean install, drag and drop personal data
>files only.  No screwing with the libraries.  Too bad, because it was nice
>to not have to reset passwords and prefernces and network setting etc etc.
>
>Thanks everybody who contributed.  I appreciate it.
>
>Khyber
>
>
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