Slow Finder in Leopard

[trev]

Hey all,

I'm using a year old blackbook running leopard. When I copy/paste/delete a file it takes about 3~4 for the action to perform after I give the command. Also I takes about 5 seconds for the contents of a folder to appear after I click on it. Any ideas? Thanks!

Trevor

 

[72930]

How much free HD space do you have, it will run slow if you have less than a few GBs...

 

[Killyp]

Make sure you also have plenty of RAM. 512 mb won't cut it, you'll need at least 1 gb.

 

[trev]

25 gigs free

1 gig of ram (230 wired - 347 active - 48 inactive - 381 free)

 

[Cromulent]

Strange. I find just about everything in Leopard faster than Tiger. The things mentioned above should help.

Edit : Is Spotlight still reindexing your drive?

 

[trev]

nope, it completed doing that 5 days ago 😛.

anything I can mess with in disk utility?

 

[trev]

Fixed it!

"repaired disk permissions" ...what does that do anyway?

 

[72930]

Fixed it!

"repaired disk permissions" ...what does that do anyway?

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25751 🙂

 

[trev]

I was wrong, verifying permissions never fixed it. Any other ideas? Should I just format the whole thing?

 

[AppleCandidate]

I find my finder slow as well, although not as much as seconds - i'm on a new mac mini with 2gb of ram. I'll do an archive and install today to overwrite my upgrade installation - i'll report here if that works.

 

[trev]

Thanks! Very much appreciated!

 

[Mac OS X Ocelot]

This iMac G4 1.25GHz with 1GB RAM with 104GB free space has Finder problems, but not with moving or copying. When we click on an icon it takes it a second to highlight and double clicking a folder or file takes it a second to open. Also, Exposé, Spaces, and Stacks transitions/animations are a little choppy. On the plus side, the menu bar and Spotlight are way more responsive.