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A possible fix for high Finder CPU usage
Authored by: rkehlor on Dec 14, '04 01:29:21AM

Many thanks to ritchiem -- that narrowed it down to the culprit!

I realize my hint was not really a full hint; but, since I'd been going crazy for hours on end for several days (and had searched MacNN and MacOSX Hints thoroughly, I thought), I thought my shotgun work could at least save someone some time.

And, luckily, it spawned some great comments. I tested it and with the "show item info" on, with a single jpeg file on the desktop, the CPU freaks out. Removing it and logging out/in starts it up again. (Thus, it was indeed the finder.plist file that was fixing it initially for me, and not the other two, since it reset the "show item info" setting.)

Thanks for your patience and insight, all. And yes, fix the friggin' Finder! Jheesh.



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A possible fix for high Finder CPU usage
Authored by: johnsawyercjs on Dec 14, '04 01:50:53AM

I agree--this is a valid enough hint, since it led to the discussion that cited the more precise fix for the problem the user was seeing in this case, to change a particular setting (the Finder's "Show Item Info"--click on the desktop, then select "View: Show View Options") rather than to trash the entire com.apple.finder.plist file. Besides, trashing that plist file, as well as others, can solve other problems that might not be fixable by changing every setting you can think might be stored in those plist files, if something in those files is damaged (I think many of us have seen examples, either in our own experience or that of others).

But yes, finding the particular troublemaking setting, if there is one, and changing it first is the best approach, since we don't seem to have quite enough influence in helping Apple to fix a lot of these problems in a timely fashion, even with all our bug reports.



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