I've noticed lately on my SE/30 (running 7.1 updated) that when I get info on a folder it is constantly recalculating the folder size. This only seems to occur if the folder is in the "root directory" as in the first window shown when selecting the drive. It also seems that it is only my external hard drive that's affected. The internal doesn't seem to have this problem. Also, if I go to a folder deeper in the heirarchy, it doesn't seem to recalculate.
If I choose Get Info for the entire drive, the problem exists, though the recalcultion is almost instant, whereas the inner folders take a few seconds. I ran Conflict Catcher 3 on the machine and when it disabled the Desktop Printing Extension, the problem went away. Of course, so did the ability to print. I trashed my printing preferences, thinking that may help, but it didn't. I ran Norton's Optomizer to check it and it came back that the drive is signifacantly fragmented. I didn't optimize it, as it's a 1 gig drive and din't want to tie up the machine for the year or so, it would take to do so :) I added a terminator at the end of my SCSI chain, though everything appeared to be working fine, and everything still appears to be working fine, and the problem still exists, so I don't think it's a termination issue. (my last device may already be terminated internally, don't really know) So would a fragged drive cause this symptom? Or is there something else I should address? If it is a fragged drive, I should be able to move it to a faster computer to defrag it, right? I don't really look forward to having the SE/30 take on this task. Also, I backed up this hard drive about a week ago. If I deleted everything on the drive and restored my backup, would that solve the fraggmentation problem? This may sound like a stupid question, but this is all new to me. Thanks in advance, J White Buy American S.O.S. Save Our Steel -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
