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Authored by: imacusr on Nov 08, '02 03:22:11PM

Browsing through my Pictures folder in the Finder almost always winds up crashing the Finder, which then restarts itself but over time becomes less and less stable until I finally have to restart completely.

The few times that this *doesn't* happen, the odds are about 50-50 that the machine will simply kernel-panic while browsing the folder.

10.2 needs some stability work, and the Finder needs to just be taken out and shot.



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Authored by: GaelicWizard on Nov 08, '02 04:05:56PM
Use PathFinder, F.K.A. SNAX, it's a great finder-replacement. I love it. it's made by CocoaTech. (i think it's done by just one guy.) It's a great app. JP

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Finder crashes on large photo
Authored by: wfolta on Nov 08, '02 04:58:03PM

Same for me. In my Pictures directory I have thousands of photos and when I browse the folder in icon view with the largest size icons, it's only a matter of time before the Finder crashes and restarts.

It doesn't seem to bother anything else -- UNIX you know -- but I hate it when Finder comes back up and all of my many carefully minimized windows come up non-minimized and I have to click-click-click to put them back into the Dock.



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Authored by: nalyd on Nov 09, '02 10:40:45AM

If you are having this kind of stability problem, your machine has some serious hardware problem. Or maybe there is some data corruption in your photo collections, the last time I saw this behviour was in 10.1.x with some messed-up files.

Also (esp. if you are running an older G4) make sure your firmware is up to date. 10.2 does freeze frequently on a pre-quicksilver G4 using older firmware, but updating to the latest clears it right up.



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Authored by: malvolio on Nov 09, '02 11:22:28PM

Definitely you have a problem that is not inherent in 10.2. Earlier today I spent a good deal of time browsing in a file with over 11,000 (!) jpeg images. I was in column view with preview mode active. Memory usage rose, naturally, but there were no slowdowns or Finder crashes (or any other crashes, for that matter).
This was on a 500 MHz G3 iMac with 768 MB of RAM.



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Ummmm...
Authored by: porkchop_d_clown on Nov 10, '02 03:41:07PM

I would seriously consider fsck'ing your disk (or using a commercial tool like Disk Warrior).

I don't think the problem is the Finder - I think your file system is damaged.



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