> 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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