According to Tarik Bilgin: >>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. > >I run Mac OS 10.2.4 on my G4 400 Ti. > >(carbon) Finder.app is sluggish and can hang or end up in a funked >up state more than any other app (and I don;t use the finder that >much) > >I can also confirm ridiculously slow trash emptying. Hi tarik, and i would only add that the folks who are using drag and drop to do things in the Finder will never feel the slowness, or latency, that is painfully obvious for those that use keyboard and F-Key commands. ~flipper