According to Tom Warner: >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 well, Tom, it's intermittent, which as any 50s/60s TV repairman will tell you is "the worst kinda problem". It seems to have abated after the 10.2.5 update, which i have no doubt, has nothing to do with it all. ~flipper