[Ti] Slow finder on a 17" Al

Thu Mar 11 11:00:24 PST 2004

do you have any apps that automatically start up when you boot? pull them 
out of the startup folder if there are.....

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From: khyber courchesne <courchesne at onebox.com>
Reply-To: "PowerBook G4 Titanium List" <Titanium at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
To: "PowerBook G4 Titanium List" <Titanium at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
Subject: Re: [Ti] Slow finder on a 17" Al
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:50:01 -0800

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
 >
 > Lee Wilmeth, Computer Consultant
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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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