[G4] Crawling finder update

[John Baltutis]

On 10/06/07, The Sargents <chrisgins at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> 	Thanks for the suggestions. An archive and install did
> nothing to change the situation. After more attempts such as zapping
> the Pram, booting into safe mode, etc. I tried hooking up my OS 9
> drive in a Firewire enclosure and attempted to reboot into OS 9 (Does
> anybody know how to boot into an external Firewire drive- either OS 9
> or OS X?)

You select the volume/partition hosting the bootable OS with System
Preferences->Startup Disk and click restart. Optionally, restart holding down
the OPTION key. That brings up the Startup Manager and shows icons for every
mounted and bootable volume. Select the volume you want to boot with and click
the right-hand arrow.

> 	The Finder was so slow that logging out timed out and I could
> not boot into OS 9, but I finally got to the log in screen and was
> able to switch users. It turns out there were 21,896 items on the
> desktop :-( I archived them (except for the normal day to day items)
> to another drive so my wife can go through them eventually and then
> deleted them and emptied the trash. Switched back to my original user
> name and all is well with my Mac :-)

Glad you solved that one.