Leopard Finder Beach-ball?

[bericd]

Sorry if this has been discussed already, but....

Has anyone running Leopard tried to re-create the issue in Tiger when the Finder will beach-ball for ever (I'm not just talking 10-15 secs) when trying to access an off-line network drive or idisk etc?

This behavior in Tiger is driving me nuts, and if they fix it in Leopard I will buy it on day 1.

Cheers,

Beric..

 

[ultimateceej]

It might not be an OS problem. I think the problem is when the computer you are trying to connect to does not respond immediately to network pings and such, or it does respond and then takes a forever while doing something else. I know what you are talking about and I have had the same problems with windows.

Of course it could also be that some windows machines have trouble connecting to macs and vice versa.

 

[bericd]

It even happens with idisk. If I'm at home I can use my idisk, but when I come to work I have to go theough the proxy. If I click on the idisk my macbook pro just starts beachballing until I reset it.

Apple should have a saner timeout policy, and not freeze out the whole computer the way it does. Even if the other server is not responding, I consider this to be a fault with OSX - it should be able to recover gracefully.

 

[MongoTheGeek]

Sorry if this has been discussed already, but....

Has anyone running Leopard tried to re-create the issue in Tiger when the Finder will beach-ball for ever (I'm not just talking 10-15 secs) when trying to access an off-line network drive or idisk etc?

This behavior in Tiger is driving me nuts, and if they fix it in Leopard I will buy it on day 1.

Cheers,

Beric..

It's not forever. It's 2 minutes.

I know I have a bug in against this for Tiger. Hopefully it will be fixed.

 

[bericd]

It's not forever. It's 2 minutes.

I know I have a bug in against this for Tiger. Hopefully it will be fixed.

I know, but it seems like forever when your computer is paralysed

 

[7on]

I think it would be better if networking wasn't integrated into Finder ala os9. That way if there is a freeze, it doesn't take out Finder - only the Network Browser.