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
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