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I believe I've found the true culprit
Authored by: bedouin on Dec 17, '09 03:30:50AM
I tried deleting the preference files mentioned above but was unsuccessful. I disabled calculate file sizes and that did the trick, but I like having the file sizes there so that wasn't a viable long term option.

What I discovered is that the .DS_Store file at the root of one of my drives had become corrupted. Once I deleted this file from Terminal the CPU dropped back to normal. The corrupted .DS_Store was not on my boot drive by the way, so that is not necessarily the only place you should look. I'm running 10.5.8.
Edited on Dec 17, '09 03:31:36AM by bedouin


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