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A possible fix for high Finder CPU usage
Authored by: sprewell on Jul 04, '05 05:56:29PM

I had the same problem: Finder was eating up 80-90% of my cpu, causing the bottom of my powerbook, running 10.3.9, to overheat and the fan to kick in and run constantly. I used Activity Monitor to see what was going on with the Finder and found a jpeg in the list of open files for Finder. This was a picture from a digital camera that I had just uploaded to my computer and had been uploading to a server using an ftp client. I had not tried to open the file but it's always possible that I had double-clicked on it in the ftp client without realizing it, starting Finder on its infinite loop death crush with this jpeg. I used Activity Monitor to force quit Finder and everything went back to normal. It looks like Apple has never figured out this image-loading bug with Finder.



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