[Ti] Slow finder on a 17" Al

[khyber courchesne]

JOHN - Interesting - the Safe Boot is not in my bag of tricks.  It worked
well, the finder was almost repsonsive, but upon reboot, its back to a
minute of spinning beachball when the Finder is asked to do anything.  But
after the first action, Finder is almost normal speed.

I created a new user and it is zippy and fast finder as it should be.  But
my user is crippled.

A lot of people are blaming the last security update or 10.3.2.  There seem
to be problems with 17" powerbooks and newer powermacs, who have even worse
problems.

This machine is factory only, and has tested out with TechTool Pro.
I've installed 2 copies of panther now, from different apple install CD's.
Archive and Install. Same problem regardless.

The Apple Tech Support lady thinks it is because of transfering over user
items from the TiBook, including non-OS items in home/library.   She said
she would email me some Apple article on moving machines, but she never did,
and I can't seem to find an article on the apple website.

I'm not sure what to do other than erase and install, which I'll do once I
get back home to my install disks in a few days.

Has anyone else had problems when moving to a new machine with their old
files?

Thank you everybody.

> From: John Griffin <jwegriffin at mac.com>
> Reply-To: "PowerBook G4 Titanium List"<Titanium at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 14:55:47 -0500
> To: "PowerBook G4 Titanium List" <Titanium at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: Re: [Ti] Slow finder on a 17" Al
> 
> khyber courchesne typed this message on 3/11/04 12:52 PM:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Have you tried a "Safe Boot?" (Holding down the Shift key on reboot). Doing
> this gets you into a very slow and methodical scan of your files and booting
> sequence. It takes quite awhile to get into the Finder but once you have, it
> could be that the safeboot procedure will have spotted something and
> corrected it. You can then reboot normally and see if the bugs have been
> circumvented.
> 
> jg
> 
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