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January 19th, 2003, 08:34 PM
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| Select All in Finder Large Number of files Takes Over System
I am using Jaguar on an 800 mhz G4. When selecting large number of files in the Finder the process virtually takes over my entire system. I accidentally copied the contents of over 2,000 MP3 sounds to my desktop because I was clicking around while the spinning curser was active. It was taking forever so I rebooted so now when the Finder appears I have to wait while the spinning curser does it's thing .... it's been over 20 minutes .... still waiting for my Finder to be free so I can delete these files. Anyone else experience this problem? BTW I am typing this message on my other computer. cheers, Danny Danny  |
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January 19th, 2003, 10:49 PM
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How about logging in as console and deleting them from the command line? The desktop is at /users/[youraccountname]/desktop. I'll stop at that point, though, because I'm a Unix newbie and I don't want to say something stupid. But, I did just buy O'Reilly's _Learning Unix on Mac OS X_. Excellent book. Doug
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January 19th, 2003, 10:59 PM
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Booted up with OS9 and deleted the files from my Jaguar desktop. In took me 3 seconds to move 2,400 files from one folder to another in OS9. I'm just disapported that the Finder in OS 10 is so pokey. It takes over a minute to move 100 files. cheers, Danny |
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January 19th, 2003, 11:05 PM
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Good old OS 9. That was one of the reasons I bought my iMac before they removed the ability to boot to OS 9. That being said, I very rarely reboot into 9.
__________________ Please click THANKS if you found this information useful. "Just as some newborn race of super-intelligent robots is about to consume all humanity, our dear old species will likely be saved by a Windows crash. The poor robots will linger pathetically. Windows will apologize to them for the inconvenience." -Anonymous (with modifications) |
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