On 26/03/2005, at 9:19 AM, Antony N. Lord wrote:
Dual 2GHz G5 10.3.8
My G5 seems to behave very odd at startup - it boots, loads and the
desktop pictures appear.
I then get the "pizza wheel of death" for a considerable period of
time (2-3 minutes +) before all the icons appear and I can get down
to business.
Try deleting fontTablesAnnex. I read somewhere that update 10.3.6
introduced a new version of ATS framework (v1.8.5) that fixed some
font bugs and introduced a new one. If you have a heap of PostScript
fonts in your System, they are each scanned at login and it may be
that each scan adds to and bloats the fontTablesAnnex cache. It is
hoped Update 10.3.9, due 'real soon now', will include ATS.framework
1.8.6 which might fix this.
~/System/Library/Caches/fontTablesAnnex
No guarantees. I'm just passing on what I read somewhere.
