> On Mar 3, 2020, at 5:12 AM, Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 3 Mar 2020, at 03:12, FZiegler <fz.2...@klacto.net 
>> <mailto:fz.2...@klacto.net>> wrote:
>> 
>> Any ideas on how else to investigate would be great, but I also understand 
>> my machine may be hosed worse than I thought(*).
>> 
>> Francois
>> 
>> --------
>> (*) Long story short, it has 3 partitions “OSX”, “Home” and “Empty” of which 
>> OSX had Yosemite and Empty has the recently installed & problematic High 
>> Sierra. I traditionally keep all non-factory stuff (user dir, own apps, 
>> /usr/local) in Home, and never had problems doing that. But the High Sierra 
>> install was prompted by crashes which could be hardware after all -- can a 
>> dying SSD have such effects?  
> 
> I suspect your partitioning is responsible for this slow down. But I don’t 
> know how LS interacts with partitions. Perhaps lsregister only scans the 
> current system’s partition on this OS system?


That may very well be. I just realized that Unison.app (that I use to sync my 
files to their latest versions amid backing up and switching computers...) also 
has a table view with icons that slows to a crawl, spending much time in LS: 
<http://www.klacto.net/Sample.Unison.txt 
<http://www.klacto.net/Sample.Unison.txt>>.

So maybe the conclusion is that Apple no longer really supports partitioning? 
That would suck because it’s the only way I knew to test (on *one* computer) if 
a new system breaks apps. I guess the only way to find out is to wipe and try 
it all again with the drive unpartitioned.

That would explain me seeing the same BibDesk slowdown on a new machine running 
Mojave -- but alas not the (BibDesk- and LS-unrelated) problems that started 
this all for me *in Yosemite* (crashes for which the shop today said they found 
no hardware reason, either). Oh well.

I’ll try the iconForFileType: version as soon as I get a chance. Thanks again 
for all your help and commiseration! 

Francois     
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