> I installed Photoshop 4.0 on my S900 running 8.6 and now it ate my > desktop pictures with the appearance control panel and whenever it does > anything that requires redrawing the desktop in the finder it is slow. > > I tried rebuilding the desktop and clean install and reinstalling > Quicktime 5.0. > > No joy. It is still slow.
I think I've seen that before. When the system needs to show the desktop for whatever reason, do you first see the underlying color/pattern, then a *slow* vertical build of the desktop picture from the top down, and then every single icon redraw separately, with a delay between the icon and it's text label? If we're thinking of the same thing, it seems to be a result of the Finder being starved for RAM, and PhotoChop specializes in that. Try setting PhotoChop's RAM allocation to a few MB below your "Largest Available Block" as shown in "About This Computer." Depending on your configuration, you may need to use Virtual Memory *shudder*. If that does the trick, get more RAM, as Apple's VM scheme does not play nicely with Adobe's, and real RAM is always a lot faster. If I've just wasted a little bit of everybody's bandwidth by replying to a thread I haven't been paying attention to, I apologize. --Bryan -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | SPECIAL SM LIST PRICES - 24x Bootable SCSI CDROM $39.99, Umax Processors $19.99 PowerSupplies from C500/C600 $49.99 J700/S900 $79.99 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> 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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
