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.
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Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group
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