Incoming are literally hundreds of photograph .jpg. They are temporarily stored on thumb drives until they are edited properly. Namely the time/date stamp on them is changed into something more coherent. Also, bad pictures are also deleted either singularly or in multiple batches.
As an example of time/date stamps I have
0307141135-00.jpg and 0513141929-01.jpg.
They have to be changed into something like Parking.Lot.C.00 and Banana.Splits
I scan with Quick Look and I delete fuzzy and/or out of focus pictures, renaming good pictures for further processing and filing. Yes, we did too visit Room 4112 before and here's proof; here are the monitors in Room 2004 and so on. Cut & Pasting Room 2004 on the appropriate .jpg is a time saver.
For ease of use I obviously scan in the column setup, going down. Lately I noticed that for several seconds after I rename a file it doesn't appear to have changed. Likewise pictures that are deleted seem to hang for minutes at a time before they are entered into the Trash.
The location of files, whether are in thumb drives, external drives or on the Desktop doesn't matter, neither does the apparent size of the files; name changes and slow deletion plague me.
As a hunch I recently used the Activity Monitor to Force Quit the Finder. Files that were waiting to go to Trash went nearly instantly. And the Trash emptied very quickly, too. But using Force Quit on the Finder doesn't seem right.
Memory and disk space? Plenty. But the Activity Monitor, reading the CPU% however, give me an average in the low to mid 30% for System and User. Percentage Idle often goes into single digits when I'm really busy. I really don't understand why so much CPU power is needed for a simple name change.
So what's a good answer? What's making the Finder go so slow?
As an example of time/date stamps I have
0307141135-00.jpg and 0513141929-01.jpg.
They have to be changed into something like Parking.Lot.C.00 and Banana.Splits
I scan with Quick Look and I delete fuzzy and/or out of focus pictures, renaming good pictures for further processing and filing. Yes, we did too visit Room 4112 before and here's proof; here are the monitors in Room 2004 and so on. Cut & Pasting Room 2004 on the appropriate .jpg is a time saver.
For ease of use I obviously scan in the column setup, going down. Lately I noticed that for several seconds after I rename a file it doesn't appear to have changed. Likewise pictures that are deleted seem to hang for minutes at a time before they are entered into the Trash.
The location of files, whether are in thumb drives, external drives or on the Desktop doesn't matter, neither does the apparent size of the files; name changes and slow deletion plague me.
As a hunch I recently used the Activity Monitor to Force Quit the Finder. Files that were waiting to go to Trash went nearly instantly. And the Trash emptied very quickly, too. But using Force Quit on the Finder doesn't seem right.
Memory and disk space? Plenty. But the Activity Monitor, reading the CPU% however, give me an average in the low to mid 30% for System and User. Percentage Idle often goes into single digits when I'm really busy. I really don't understand why so much CPU power is needed for a simple name change.
So what's a good answer? What's making the Finder go so slow?