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Flashing Desktop Icons and Finder Folders
- Thread starter joswagne
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weird, i just started having this issue myself. I moved this weekend and i'm using a different monitor. Just the icons flashing, not the rest of the desktop itself. Also on mavericks with a 2011 mac mini.
I actually came here to post the exact same behaviour. It started today, but it's my university computer and I was away for the past 3 days.
I have a video of the problem :
http://youtu.be/xkOwpe_4jac
(just give it some time to process, I just uploaded it to youtube).
EDIT : flashing icons at 40 and 1:40 in the video. I think it does it every exact minute - can't confirm this right now though).
Mac mini
2012
2.5 i5
4 GB of memory
Plugged into a Samsung LCD through thunderbolt (to DVI).
I have a video of the problem :
http://youtu.be/xkOwpe_4jac
(just give it some time to process, I just uploaded it to youtube).
EDIT : flashing icons at 40 and 1:40 in the video. I think it does it every exact minute - can't confirm this right now though).
Mac mini
2012
2.5 i5
4 GB of memory
Plugged into a Samsung LCD through thunderbolt (to DVI).
It's happening every 60 seconds on my mac. Are you running Google Chrome or Google Drive?
Flashing Icons
I'm on a Mac Air with both Google Chrome and Google Drive. It's almost exactly a minute for me, usually adding a second each time.
I'm on a Mac Air with both Google Chrome and Google Drive. It's almost exactly a minute for me, usually adding a second each time.
I just killed Google Drive out of my Top Right System Tray; Hasn't flashed since. If you're not running Google Drive, click Finder & type console. Launch the app; Under all messages see if you have something logging an error that corresponds to the flashes.