Crowded desktops may cause Finder hangs on older machines

Oct 28, '03 09:49:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

In the last months, my Mac OS X Cube started to hang when switching between windows, moving windows or clicking on buttons. After a lot of frustration, I found the reason for this -- I had 600 files on my Desktop, from Safari downloads primarily. I removed the icons and my Cube is blazingly fast again. BTW, I also changed the download directory from the Desktop to somewhere else in Safari's prefs to prevent this from happening again...

[robg adds: 600?? Wow.]

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