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This is driving me up a wall: When you create a new folder on the desktop, it appears with the name "untitled folder," highlighted and ready for you to type in its new name. And typically, it will *sit* there, quietly, until you type the new name and hit Return/Enter.
But on my PowerBook, for a coupe of weeks now, it's as if there's a ghost hitting an invisible "Return" key -- 3 times -- anywhere from 2-5 seconds after the new folder is created, which "accepts" the current title whether I've typed anything or not!
So -- if I pause momentarily, before renaming a folder, it's as if I'd hit Return 3 times:
Return #1 -- "untitled folder" becomes the accepted name; then
Return #2 -- "untitled folder" is highlighted again, as if to be changed; then
Return #3 -- "untitled folder" becomes the accepted name again!
This happens in rapid succession, hence the "blinking" effect I described. As the folder title is accepted, then highlighted, then accepted again, in rapid succession, it looks like the folder is "blinking."
Even if I begin typing the new folder name right away, this "blinking" thing interrupts me and accepts the incomplete name I've begun to type -- even before I'm finished!!! This is driving me bananas!!!
OK. So I've:
Trashed Finder prefs
Repaired permissions
Run Cron scripts
Run Panther Cache cleaner's "deep cleaning" scripts
Not sure what else to do, short of reinstalling the system, but I really, really don't want to do that, right now....
Any suggestions?? Help!!!!!
Thanks....
But on my PowerBook, for a coupe of weeks now, it's as if there's a ghost hitting an invisible "Return" key -- 3 times -- anywhere from 2-5 seconds after the new folder is created, which "accepts" the current title whether I've typed anything or not!
So -- if I pause momentarily, before renaming a folder, it's as if I'd hit Return 3 times:
Return #1 -- "untitled folder" becomes the accepted name; then
Return #2 -- "untitled folder" is highlighted again, as if to be changed; then
Return #3 -- "untitled folder" becomes the accepted name again!
This happens in rapid succession, hence the "blinking" effect I described. As the folder title is accepted, then highlighted, then accepted again, in rapid succession, it looks like the folder is "blinking."
Even if I begin typing the new folder name right away, this "blinking" thing interrupts me and accepts the incomplete name I've begun to type -- even before I'm finished!!! This is driving me bananas!!!
OK. So I've:
Trashed Finder prefs
Repaired permissions
Run Cron scripts
Run Panther Cache cleaner's "deep cleaning" scripts
Not sure what else to do, short of reinstalling the system, but I really, really don't want to do that, right now....
Any suggestions?? Help!!!!!
Thanks....
