Mac OS X
Q: Wonky finder
I am having considerable problems with my Mac and most seem to center around the finder. I have posted about problems ejecting external hard drives and disk images (such as used by installers and encrypted sparseimages) at http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11149647�. I have had the following problems:
1) unable to drag select a group of files. the "gray box" hangs momentarily, I can count to about five and it will then disappear, allowing me to redraw and select the files/folders.
2) unable to eject drives/discs without the "unable to eject" warning as mentioned; I could eject the drives after relaunching finder
3) Finder seems to become increasingly slow after a restart. There are sometimes seconds of delay before opening folders or Spotlight starting to work. It's better after restarting.
4) I've noticed files moved to a different location than where I know I left them when I reopen a folder. It seems to be files that I've renamed.
5) When trying to trash files from an external drive, got the "error 1407" every time trashing was attempted. This was gone after ejecting and rebooting the drives (which required relaunching Finder in order to be able to eject the drives due to the "unable to eject" warning!)
6) icons for files have disappeared during dragging or after first opening folders. They reappear after scrolling off them and then going back to them.
7) icons are pixelated (see http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=11192854#11192854)
These are the main problems that I can recall right now. I have trashed Finder prefs, trashed caches, ran maintenance scripts which helped but didn't eliminate the glitches. I usually leave TextExpander, Tags, Scansnap Manager, YouControlFonts, DejaMenu, iClip, Mail, and Safari running pretty routinely. I'm starting to turn these off one at a time to see if that makes a difference. I've kept my software updates up to date (except iClip, which is no longer updated; guess I'll have to delete; major bummer). I have a 1Tb drive that's a a little less that half full.
Any suggestions or insights would be greatly appreciated!
CouchCowboy
1) unable to drag select a group of files. the "gray box" hangs momentarily, I can count to about five and it will then disappear, allowing me to redraw and select the files/folders.
2) unable to eject drives/discs without the "unable to eject" warning as mentioned; I could eject the drives after relaunching finder
3) Finder seems to become increasingly slow after a restart. There are sometimes seconds of delay before opening folders or Spotlight starting to work. It's better after restarting.
4) I've noticed files moved to a different location than where I know I left them when I reopen a folder. It seems to be files that I've renamed.
5) When trying to trash files from an external drive, got the "error 1407" every time trashing was attempted. This was gone after ejecting and rebooting the drives (which required relaunching Finder in order to be able to eject the drives due to the "unable to eject" warning!)
6) icons for files have disappeared during dragging or after first opening folders. They reappear after scrolling off them and then going back to them.
7) icons are pixelated (see http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=11192854#11192854)
These are the main problems that I can recall right now. I have trashed Finder prefs, trashed caches, ran maintenance scripts which helped but didn't eliminate the glitches. I usually leave TextExpander, Tags, Scansnap Manager, YouControlFonts, DejaMenu, iClip, Mail, and Safari running pretty routinely. I'm starting to turn these off one at a time to see if that makes a difference. I've kept my software updates up to date (except iClip, which is no longer updated; guess I'll have to delete; major bummer). I have a 1Tb drive that's a a little less that half full.
Any suggestions or insights would be greatly appreciated!
CouchCowboy
iMac 3.06 GHz Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.6.2)
Posted on Mar 8, 2010 8:17 AM