on 9/3/03 1:00 PM, David Clark at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Some things that appear to speed it up (no, most of these aren't > practical...): unmount volumes not containing apps you want to use to open > the files, delete or archive unused apps, blah blah blah. I have NOT, > however, heard of any practical workarounds. > > I don't think that helps, but you have at least one person who sympathizes > with you!
Chuckle. Thanks for the sympathy. I can empathise :). My "work around" is to... 60 minutes later... Let this be a warning. *Never* open 83 folder/apps/files/stuffit files/disk images by accident. To see whether the File menu in the Finder also had the Open With... item I selected a whole bunch of items in one folder (so that the Finder would have a lot of items to deal with) and clicked on the File menu. Unfortunately, it *does* and when I tried to get away from it by clicking in another app, the regular "Open" was activated and two minutes later (after the Finder had its way) everything, including the kitchen sink started opening. OS X is robust b/c it didn't crash (though, it slowed to such a crawl that it wasn't usable *at all* for about 30 minutes (long enough to go do my watering and come back) after which things *slowly* started settling down (I could dismiss dialogues, quit apps, etc). The Finder definitely still needs work! PS The dock REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY sucks at displaying info when more than 15 or so apps are open. I think people are simply being contrarian when they say they have 20 or 30 apps open with the dock active and the dock is still useful for them. I am starting to doubt they're even telling the truth. Without text descriptors it becomes useless with that many icons! Ah well, contrarians do love to opine on any topic as the "dock wars" in the different Mac forums demonstrate (I should know, I'm quite contrarian in nature myself ;) (plus, I guess Mac users are by their very nature contrarian so this should come as no surprise). Eric. -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> 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/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
