Corrupted Finder: Two Move To Trash menu items

[eetu]

Lately, my iMac (Snow Leopard, mid 2007) is beachballing quite much and I just discovered one problem with Finder. I have to Move To Trash options (see attachment). I wonder what that comes from and if it could be the reason of the beach balls.

Any ideas?

 

[Gregg2]

Probably unrelated

To fix the menu, try trashing your com.apple.finder.plist file.

...sorry, out of time here!

 

[eetu]

Thank you. Deleting that file solved the menu problem.

Regarding the beach balls, I am suspecting a hard drive problem, since the slow down usually happens when the hard drive is spinning.

 

[Gregg2]

Run Disk Utility > Verify Disk

What did that tell you?

 

[eetu]

Verify Disk says it is ok. Still, when there is much hard disk activity (I can heart it spinning), the beach ball tends to appear. Also, temp is around 59-60° most of the time.

 

[Gregg2]

Maybe you need more RAM.

Is it possible that you're using more apps simultaneously than you used to?

 

[eetu]

With 4gb I should not have many troubles. I usually do not have many apps open: Safari, iTunes, Mail... although I notice with Activity Monitor that Safari was using a lot of memory. Maybe too many tabs and windows are sometimes open.