On Thursday, April 10, 2003, at 09:09 pm, b wrote: > My entire 'gripe' with the Finder, and sluggishness in OSX-Jaguar, is > best summed-up by the annoying dialog box: "Preparing to empty the > Trash"...that will remain on screen for many seconds, even if all > that's being trashed is an alias or an empty folder...And then it > pauses on the 'empty' frame for additional seconds... Eh?? If I empty the trash, it empties. No delay, no dialog box it's just suddenly empty. Maybe there's something else wrong with your set-up. HTH Tom rev B 667, 10.2.4 -- My ol' grandaddy taught me to always; post in plain text, quote only that portion to which you are replying, post replies at the bottom.