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Seems to make copies
Authored by: sebastienb on Sep 05, '02 08:20:12PM

I've noticed that trashing items from the Finder takes extremely long in Jaguar compared to 10.1x

I've noticed that sometimes when I delete stuff, I see some files that get a '.copy' appended for a split second while the file list scrolls in the window... My guess is that, for some reason, the Finder now duplicates the files before erasing them, which would explain why it takes so long now...

As for the space decreasing? Well, since the system is duplicating every file, these will take up more space (ie, the same amount). I've noticed that the Finder sometimes takes a bit of time to actually update the available capacity of the drive; this might explain what this user is seeing: Delete files, which get duplicated first, take up more space, and then finally get deleted, user checks space available, but since the Finder isn't up to date, displays wrong info.

My suggestion: wait a few minutes and check the availability again...



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Delay on emptying trash (was: Seems to make copies)
Authored by: zem on Sep 07, '02 02:02:03PM

concerning the delay on emptying the trash in jag:

i can see the same thing on my system (i.e. a delay of about 3 secs) but i've used jaguar on at least three other machines that cleared the trash nearly instantly.

while this little wait is no big deal i'm still wondering what would cause this delay to happen and how i could get rid of it...
i guess in the worst case i have to wait for 10.2.1 and hope this brings things back to normal.



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Seeming to make copies
Authored by: Thorne on Sep 07, '02 02:26:50PM

I've noticed the following behavior, which may or may not relate to what you've observed.

When a file named "x" already exists in the trash, and the user trashes ANOTHER file named "x", the Finder briefly appends "copy" to the filename (before it disappears out of the Finder window) so that the two files can coexist in the trash.

I have not noticed this phenomena EXCEPT when a like-named file already exists in the trash.

Are you deleting same-named files?



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