10.5: Speed drag-selection of large icons

Sep 25, '08 07:30:03AM

Contributed by: ipearx

There appears to be a minor bug in the Leopard Finder: drag-selecting multiple icons when they are set to full size is very slow and unusable (at least on my 2.4GHz 17" MacBook Pro running OS X 10.5.5).

The solution is to change the icon size to 112x112 pixels or lower. Still pretty big, but much faster for some reason.

[robg adds: I tested this on my Mac Pro, and indeed, there's a big change in performance when you compare, say, 116x116 to 112x112. It's especially noticeable if you're drag-selecting in a folder with a large number of items in it.]

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