John, may I have the terminal commands for rebuilding the index? thansk.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Gunn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: some recent OS X annoyances
Hi:
Regarding the finder, have you tried to rebuild the index?
I've done this for both local drive and also on mounted drives and I have
very good results. A reason I've done this is sometimes when I go to my
mounted drive, the finder seems to say busy but after rebuilding the
index I don't receive this message and seems to speed things up.
I don't know if this will resolve the finder issue but if you want, let
me know and I'll give you the steps and one must be of course in the
terminal to do this.
John
On Jun 8, 2006, at 9:28 AM, Jacob Schmude wrote:
Hi everyone
Well, it had to happen, my installation of OS X is starting to act up a
little. I've noticed two rather annoying behaviors that have cropped up
within the past few weeks that were not present before.
1. While in finder, when browsing a folder, occasionally I will be taken
back to my home directory. I don't know why, and it seems to happen at
random, though it appears to be more common when browsing remote folders
rather than local ones. This can also happen when command+tabbing back
to the finder, it will simply put me in my home directory for no reason.
2. When initially starting the computer then loading up Safari,
sometimes cmd+l to open a web location will cause Safari to quit.
There's no dialogs, no errors, no crash reports. It just quits and
that's it, reminds me of the behavior I get in Linux when a GUI app
segfaults (though in Linux at least I can see an error message in the
status console). This is the more annoying behavior by far, as I have to
play around a little to get it working correctly again. Sometimes moving
to the address bar with the VO cursor will fix it, sometimes not and I
have to unlink the cursors and then click the mouse on the address bar.
Has anyone seen either of these behaviors before or did I mess something
up somehow? I'm wondering if it might be time to give my Mac an OS
reinstall.
