Thanks John, I'm not sure if this has worked, I must have deleted the
file at some point when Finder was bogged down. I should say I hit
the keys to perform the action and at some point when Finder finally
setlled down it performed the requested action and I then must have
emptied the trash. I'll get another book and try the same routine.
Thanks for the tip.
73 de/N3BYY
Scott
On May 27, 2006, at 10:57 PM, John Gunn wrote:
Hi Scott:
You might want to try the following.
Start terminal and do the following command. sudo mdtuil -E /
The e must be in upercase. When typing the command you'll be
prompted with the password.
What this command does it will rebuild the index.
Make sure before you run the command type cd / so you are in your
home directory.
Don't know if this will work but sometimes the finder really bogs
down either on my local hd or a mounted volume. I've down this
locally and as well on a mounted and I especially noticed a
difference on the mounted volume.
73 DE,
John
On May 27, 2006, at 7:45 PM, Scott Howell wrote:
Folks,
I'm curious, I have some smil files which are a part of Daisy
books I've downloaded from Bookshare. When I cursor on to these
files, it causes Finder to bog baddly and it takes a really long
time for the system to settle enough to do anything. Is there
something I can do to prevent Finder from doing whatever its
trying to do with these files?
I get the impression that Finder thinks these are some type of
media file and it can't handle them.
Any advice appreciated.
Scott
