[SOLVED] Cmd-Del Desktop deletion delay

[wankey]

I have a problem with OS X. It started recently and I can't find out what made it start doing it.

Whenever I delete anything off my desktop, nothing happens for approximately 1-5 seconds and then the file gets deleted. This is very annoying because a lot of the times I press cmd-del, and it's usually instantaneous.

Has anyone else experienced this? Moving, Deleting and copying are all affected but get this, this is only affected if you do things from the desktop to the Finder window. Once inside the Finder window, deletion is instant and everything is back to default.

I installed Pathfinder 5 last night, and I appZapped it so I don't know if it was that problem. I installed Parallels 4.0 today but I also appZapped that. The problem remains.

Please help!

I am using 10.5.5 on a MBP 4,1 with 4 gigs of ram 2.4ghz penryn, 200gig harddrive, rest is default.

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This issue has been solved, please look at the bottom of my thread

 

[wankey]

I have created a new account on my MBP and it doesn't have this issue... so I'm thinking it's in my account alone. Is there anyway to reset Finder to its original or reset OS X to its default starting without losing my iTunes library, iPhoto library etc?

 

[blodwyn]

Is it literally just deleting files on your Desktop that have this delay and not files in other locations? That would be weird indeed.

The first thing I would do would be to delete a file using a Terminal command, to see if that works without a delay. If that works normally then I'd try re-installing Pathfinder and use that, to see if it's just Finder that's the problem.

The Finder preference file is located as follows:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist

The other old standby is to repair your permissions to see if that helps

 

[wankey]

I did some further research. In a completely new account these are the processes running:

10551 Activity Monitor Hou 14.8 5 18.21 MB 981.68 MB Intel
10522 AirPort Base Station Agent Hou 0.0 1 3.10 MB 907.01 MB Intel
10553 AppleSpell.service Hou 0.0 1 2.08 MB 601.71 MB Intel
10532 ATSServer Hou 0.0 2 4.34 MB 639.34 MB Intel
10556 DashboardClient Hou 0.0 4 15.34 MB 924.13 MB Intel
10531 Dock Hou 0.0 3 11.07 MB 933.39 MB Intel
10535 Finder Hou 0.0 10 26.92 MB 979.56 MB Intel
10542 iTunes Helper Hou 0.0 2 2.29 MB 848.96 MB Intel
10517 launchd Hou 0.0 3 516.00 KB 585.74 MB Intel
10507 loginwindow Hou 0.0 3 4.92 MB 882.45 MB Intel
10561 mdworker Hou 0.0 4 3.11 MB 599.21 MB Intel
10534 pboard Hou 0.0 1 588.00 KB 586.64 MB Intel
10526 Spotlight Hou 0.0 6 16.76 MB 1.00 GB Intel
10557 SyncServer Hou 0.0 2 3.05 MB 597.75 MB Intel
10533 SystemUIServer Hou 0.1 7 9.34 MB 929.09 MB Intel
10549 TextEdit Hou 0.0 1 8.73 MB 929.59 MB Intel
10527 UserEventAgent Hou 0.0 2 2.20 MB 844.89 MB Intel

On my account however, these are the processes running:

0 kernel_task root 5.2 58 201.84 MB 1.74 GB Intel
32 mds root 0.0 16 60.31 MB 776.65 MB Intel
10336 WindowServer _windowserver 2.5 5 34.82 MB 952.16 MB Intel
10363 Finder Wyn 0.0 10 27.91 MB 953.34 MB Intel
10393 DashboardClient Wyn 0.0 4 24.34 MB 937.62 MB Intel
57 coreservicesd root 0.0 4 21.62 MB 609.87 MB Intel
10359 Dock Wyn 0.0 3 19.34 MB 938.75 MB Intel
10392 DashboardClient Wyn 0.6 4 18.61 MB 926.74 MB Intel
10472 Activity Monitor Wyn 6.0 5 17.29 MB 983.16 MB Intel
10395 DashboardClient Wyn 0.0 4 15.93 MB 921.69 MB Intel
10430 Property List Editor Wyn 0.0 5 12.87 MB 1.05 GB Intel
10394 DashboardClient Wyn 0.0 6 12.38 MB 918.94 MB Intel
10361 SystemUIServer Wyn 0.1 7 10.40 MB 925.00 MB Intel
10372 GrowlHelperApp Wyn 0.0 2 10.23 MB 884.89 MB Intel
10373 Terminal Wyn 0.0 3 7.59 MB 921.91 MB Intel
10335 loginwindow Wyn 0.3 3 6.23 MB 917.57 MB Intel
10377 smcFanControl Wyn 0.3 1 5.88 MB 916.12 MB Intel
10 kextd root 0.0 2 5.63 MB 590.52 MB Intel
10362 ATSServer Wyn 0.2 2 4.97 MB 667.66 MB Intel
10406 SyncServer Wyn 0.0 2 4.37 MB 598.68 MB Intel
10354 Spotlight Wyn 0.0 2 4.22 MB 877.07 MB Intel
10418 mdworker Wyn 0.0 4 4.19 MB 601.52 MB Intel
11 DirectoryService root 0.0 5 3.41 MB 588.87 MB Intel
10350 AirPort Base Station Agent Wyn 0.0 3 3.11 MB 908.43 MB Intel
160 coreaudiod root 0.0 2 2.97 MB 588.36 MB Intel
10370 iTunes Helper Wyn 0.0 2 2.32 MB 848.96 MB Intel
10435 USBOverdriveHelper Wyn 0.1 1 2.28 MB 897.38 MB Intel
10355 UserEventAgent Wyn 0.0 2 2.21 MB 845.69 MB Intel
21 securityd root 0.0 2 2.14 MB 587.39 MB Intel
165 smbd root 0.0 1 2.11 MB 590.63 MB Intel
14 configd root 0.0 3 1.96 MB 587.24 MB Intel
47 blued root 0.0 1 1.93 MB 596.61 MB Intel
10288 authorizationhos root 0.0 1 1.58 MB 596.77 MB Intel
49 socketfilterfw root 0.0 3 1.55 MB 585.93 MB Intel
37 hidd root 0.0 3 1.54 MB 587.23 MB Intel
38 fseventsd root 0.0 10 1.39 MB 591.19 MB Intel
61 krb5kdc root 0.0 1 1.39 MB 586.05 MB Intel
26 cupsd root 0.0 2 1.32 MB 586.86 MB Intel
10473 pmTool root 0.8 1 1.28 MB 595.68 MB Intel
16 mDNSResponder _mdnsresponder 0.0 2 1.21 MB 587.49 MB Intel
115 nmbd root 0.0 1 1.20 MB 586.94 MB Intel
13 syslogd root 0.0 4 1.09 MB 587.39 MB Intel
43 diskarbitrationd root 0.0 1 1.05 MB 585.69 MB Intel
10378 login root 0.0 1 1.04 MB 586.80 MB Intel
9661 installdb _installer 0.0 1 1.02 MB 586.69 MB Intel
35 kdcmond root 0.0 2 1,024.00 KB 585.73 MB Intel
10381 bash Wyn 0.0 1 928.00 KB 586.18 MB Intel
25 ntpd root 0.0 1 856.00 KB 586.12 MB Intel
15 distnoted daemon 0.0 1 796.00 KB 585.59 MB Intel
1 launchd root 0.0 3 728.00 KB 586.74 MB Intel
40 dynamic_pager root 0.0 1 712.00 KB 585.61 MB Intel
10041 usbmuxd nobody 0.0 2 696.00 KB 586.98 MB Intel
48 autofsd root 0.0 1 668.00 KB 585.62 MB Intel
28 SystemStarter root 0.0 1 652.00 KB 585.61 MB Intel
34 KernelEventAgent root 0.0 2 648.00 KB 585.68 MB Intel
10360 pboard Wyn 0.0 1 588.00 KB 586.64 MB Intel
10345 launchd Wyn 0.0 3 520.00 KB 585.74 MB Intel
12 notifyd root 0.0 2 492.00 KB 586.18 MB Intel
166 smbd root 0.0 1 324.00 KB 590.63 MB Intel
27 update root 0.0 1 288.00 KB 585.57 MB Intel

How do I remove these processes?

This is right after startup, my account processes sometimes hit 80. I do't know why there are 4 dashboard clients running shouldn't be just one?

 

[wankey]

Is it literally just deleting files on your Desktop that have this delay and not files in other locations? That would be weird indeed.

The first thing I would do would be to delete a file using a Terminal command, to see if that works without a delay. If that works normally then I'd try re-installing Pathfinder and use that, to see if it's just Finder that's the problem.

The Finder preference file is located as follows:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist

The other old standby is to repair your permissions to see if that helps

Tried both, no luck. Only deleting from desktop is slow. Everything else is very fast.

 

[wankey]

This thread fixed my problem:

https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=6623848#post6623848

Crazy bug eh?