[Ti] Slow finder on a 17" Al

[khyber courchesne]

Lee, thanks for the advice....I see a lot of things with
abbreviations.......smb, etc.....but nothing I'd know what to delete or
modify...

Thanks!

> From: Lee Wilmeth <lw at wilmeth.net>
> Reply-To: "PowerBook G4 Titanium List"<Titanium at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 11:15:57 -0700
> To: "PowerBook G4 Titanium List" <Titanium at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: Re: [Ti] Slow finder on a 17" Al
> 
> Check to make sure it's not looking for an Active Directory Server.
> This setting is located in Directory Services in the Utilities Folder.
> It can take as much as 5-10 minutes to time out.
> 
> Lee
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> On Mar 11, 2004, at 10:52 AM, khyber courchesne wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for the tip john.
>> Unfortunealty the beachball of death happens right off any fresh
>> reboot, so
>> the console shows nothing.  In fact, Activity Monitor doesn't really
>> show a
>> spike either.  Still 3-5 minutes to get a finder window, either from
>> Command-N or clicking on a desktop folder.
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> khyber courchesne typed this message on 3/8/04 3:09 PM:
>>> 
>>>> My finder has slowed to a crawl.  Takes a few minutes to open a
>>>> folder, even
>>>> from with a ³save as² box within a different application like
>>>> photoshop.
>>>> Sometimes it just hangs altogether and I need to force quit.  It
>>>> doesn¹t
>>>> even always quit with a force quit.
>>>> 
>>>> I¹ve tried trashing my pref file, updating prebinding, dumping
>>>> caches, fsck,
>>>> repair permissions etc.  I¹ve read somewhere about a .DS file, but I
>>>> don¹t
>>>> know what that is.
>>>> 
>>>> Any suggestions?
>>> 
>>> I would suggest you open Console and see if there are any processes
>>> that are
>>> hogging the processor and/or RAM. If there is, quit it from the
>>> Console and
>>> see if that makes a difference.
>>> 
>> 
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