[Ti] Slow finder on a 17" Al

Dave Cedrone d_cedrone at hotmail.com
Thu Mar 11 11:51:34 PST 2004 

"Better than posting messagesd to boards and troubleshooting things that 
shouldn't have to be troubleshot."

Well we're sorry you wasted your valuable time here with us Peasants. Good 
luck with the ARC/INSTALL



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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 11:33:59 -0800

Nope, no startup apps.  No 3rd party things (other than USBoverdrive, which
has never been a problem on other machines).  I'm thinking archive and
install the system.  Better than posting messagesd to boards and
troubleshooting things that shouldn't have to be troubleshot.

Thanks all!

 > From: "Dave Cedrone" <d_cedrone at hotmail.com>
 > Reply-To: "PowerBook G4 Titanium 
List"<Titanium at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
 > Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:00:24 -0500
 > To: "PowerBook G4 Titanium List" <Titanium at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
 > Subject: Re: [Ti] Slow finder on a 17" Al
 >
 > 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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 > ----Original Message Follows----
 > 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
 >> 5043 E. Roy Rogers Rd
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 >> cell 480-332-3243
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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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