On Sep 5, 2012, at 1:55 PM, Dan wrote: > OS X 10.5.8 on my QuickSilver (Power Mac G4)... > > It's funny... over the years, I've installed Leopard and Snow Leopard and > Lion on quite a few machines. Even supported them, as far as pushing updated > apps, answering questions, fixing problems, and whatnot. But I've never > bothered to really use Leopard on a day to day basis. My real machine has > been running Tiger all this time! > > Ok, so now I'm on Leo and I'm running into a few oddities... > > - Finder lags badly. wtf! If an app updates a file in an open folder (eg > The Unarchiver), Finder doesn't show the update or the new file until you > forcibly refresh it by closing and re-opening the folder's window? I found > an applet called "Refresh Finder" that helps, but it's not perfect. Is there > a real solution to this, to make Finder refresh the open windows more > quickly? Why does such a horrible .0 type bug still exist in a OS .8 > release?! >
On networked volumes this is really bad, but if this is happening locally, I'd suggest an applejack cleansing, and a check to make sure you didn't bring something bad over from 10.4. > - Folders ignore their view settings, sometimes. Very odd. Sometimes when I > open a folder, it displays incorrectly. Icons instead of a list view or vice > versa. Or it's positioned in the middle of the screen instead of the left, > where I'd put it. Or it's got the sidebar instead of the tighter view. If I > close the bad window and reopen it, it always opens correctly. Is there a > way to make Finder get it right in the first place? ...Thinking about doing > a global rm of all .DS_Store files. Not sure if that will really help tho. Since this is where Finder stores this info, deleting all the .DS_Store files will fix it. This may be related to the above finder issue as well; wonder if something's borked on your disk. > > - Finder's contextual menu. Is there a way to edit this thing? Bugs me to > have to dig thru the "More" submenu all the time to get to GraphicConverter's > functions. I want the things I do often to be the easiest to select, at the > top of the menu. Not burried down yet-another layer of submenu! Ugh, cannot remember, I do remember yyou have to go to the System Settings in 10,.6 to add things that should be there, maybe that was in 10.5, too. > > - iTunes 10.6.3. sigh. Yet-another iTunes generation that's slower than the > previous. The new annoyance is that when it looses my fav streaming radio > station, and has to rebuffer it -- the app comes to the front (unhides)! It, > of course, grabs whatever text I'm typing and throws it away. Is there a way > to make iTunes stay hidden? All of these things (other than the contextual menu thing) sound as though your machine's getting eaten up CPU or I/O wise by something...is this with a completely fresh account and a nuke and pave of the disk? Remember to let mdutil do it's thing, too, first time around. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
