Strange Finder issue
I have been using Macs at Home and work since OS 7. I have 3 machines at home, the oldest of which (PowerMac G5 1.6ghz) is running 10.4.1
Recently, I connected a USB disk to my new Airport Extreme router, and shared out the AirDisk. I have some unrelated issues which can be seen here;
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2235037&tstart=0
Anyway... The strangest thing is happening on this box. When I copy from that machine to the AirDisk, usually the Finder becomes unstable. If I close a finder window, it usually locks up during the copy process! Or does it? It certainly looks as though the Finder's locked up, but when I look at the AirDisk from another machine, it's quite clear the file-transfer is still in progress! The Finder is completely unresponsive, along with the copy progress-bar, but sure enough the background process is still going.
I know my way around Macs, but since OS X, I've not spent much time learning about the OS technologies... It certainly seems more like a GUI error, as the UI is the only affected component. I suppose the Finder is a GUI app in the end anyway...
I wonder if anyone has seen this before, and might suggest a trouble-shooting path before I decide to tear that old box down and build it up again. (I should probably do that over Christmas anyway)
Thanks, and Happy Holidays to all!
Recently, I connected a USB disk to my new Airport Extreme router, and shared out the AirDisk. I have some unrelated issues which can be seen here;
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2235037&tstart=0
Anyway... The strangest thing is happening on this box. When I copy from that machine to the AirDisk, usually the Finder becomes unstable. If I close a finder window, it usually locks up during the copy process! Or does it? It certainly looks as though the Finder's locked up, but when I look at the AirDisk from another machine, it's quite clear the file-transfer is still in progress! The Finder is completely unresponsive, along with the copy progress-bar, but sure enough the background process is still going.
I know my way around Macs, but since OS X, I've not spent much time learning about the OS technologies... It certainly seems more like a GUI error, as the UI is the only affected component. I suppose the Finder is a GUI app in the end anyway...
I wonder if anyone has seen this before, and might suggest a trouble-shooting path before I decide to tear that old box down and build it up again. (I should probably do that over Christmas anyway)
Thanks, and Happy Holidays to all!
2Ghz Macbook Black/1.6Ghz G5 PowerMac/Dual 1.8Ghz G5 PowerMac/iPod Touch (2), Mac OS X (10.6.2)
