[X4U] Re: OS crawling through chores

[James Hurley]

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> Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 22:42:21 -0500
> From: Michael Elliott <michaelelliott at mac.com>
> Subject: Re: [X4U] Re: OS crawling through chores
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> I'm assuming /Preferences and ~/Preferences.

Michael,

The two folder were:

User/[your name]/Library/Preferences
Macintosh HD/Library/Preferences

>
> But now I wonder if simply deleting some obvious preferences
> individually would have made a difference?  com.apple.finder.plist
> comes to mind.  Also, creating a new User account and seeing if the
> slowdowns/beachballs still occurred would have at least localized the
> problem to one folder or the other.

What we (Apple Care and I) did was to create a new account and  
discovered that the problems disappeared. At this point I think I  
would have  preferred to have followed your  suggestion and tried to  
find the offending preferences.

Jim
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>
> On May 12, 2007, at 5:38 PM, Daly Jessup wrote:
>
>> At 8:21 AM -0700 5/12/07, James Hurley wrote:
>>
>>> I wanted to give you an update on the resolution of this problem.
>>> The problem: almost every action presented the spinning beach
>>> ball: accessing menues, typing in a field, etc. Even trying to
>>> change the name of a folder presented problems--after a few
>>> letters the cursor jumped to a new file. Really bizarre stuff.
>>>
>>> After some frustration I called Apple Care and they were very
>>> helpful.
>>> After a number of diagnostic efforts it was decided that my
>>> preferences files were corrupted. Deleting these two library
>>> folders solved the problem.
>>
>> WHICH two library folders?