The OS 8/9 way of a separate Get Info window opening for each multiply-selected item isn't really very helpful, especially if you do it with 87 files at the same time. When you go beyond two or three windows, it's hard to relate which info belongs to what file in the Finder window. 10.2 & 10.3 have two different ways of looking at file info. The first is Get Info, which allows you to view one item at a time. You can open info windows for as many files as you want, perhaps to compare one to another, but you have to do it one file at a time, leaving the previous windows open. The other way to open open an info window is with the Inspector. Select a single file and press <cmd><opt><i> or hold <opt> and choose Show Inspector in the File menu. Leave the Inspector window open and then click the next file in the Finder you want info for and its data will replace that of the previous file. Apple explains this, here: <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106148>.
What you describe as crashes involve applications, not the system. You don't need to restart the OS X to continue working. If you get the continuous wait cursor (the "beachball"), the Finder (which is an application) has hung. You may be able to recover from that by waiting a couple of minutes, pressing <cmd><opt><esc> and relaunching the Finder. The system is still running, but it you can't relaunch you will have to force restart (unless you have another Mac on the network and know how telnet in to the hung machine and kill the Finder and any other hung apps from the command line). The good new is that this doesn't happen with 10.3.
Lastly, if you *ever* have to reinstall OS X, you almost certainly have hardware problems with your Mac. My first suspect would be file system corruption. Do you have Disk Warrior 3? You could also have bad memory or peripherals. BTW, that whole notion that repairing permissions is the end all/be all solution for problems is just superstition. For most problems, it's about as helpful throwing a pinch of salt over your shoulder. File permissions don't just go bad on their own. If your startup drive isn't damaged, you haven't installed new software, or booted into OS 9 and moved or modified OS X system files, permissions aren't likely to get screwed up.
On Mar 12, 2005, at 7:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For example, the put away command. The other day I was checking my pictures folder one by one and I put a few pictures in the trash, then I changed my mind BOY wtf!!... What were the folks in Apple thinking when they forgot such a special feature in OSX? And another, I hate it when I select a bunch of files and choose get info. I honestly don't know who was the idiot who decided to make this (as MS Windows), the get info windows says "86 files" DUH, I can see that, "that occupy whatever size of megabytes" duh I already know that if I view the Get Info window on the folder before I even open it. whether this is supposed to help you or not, its stupid, and unproductive. if there was an option to "open individual item info in get info windows" was that too much to ask in the finder preferences tab, I dont think so.
The fact that some users said on the list that OSX doesn't crash, I don't know what system you're running but crashes come as often as who knows what, this machine can't handle AOL Netscape, IE, and FireFox opened at the same time, not sure why. And if I should open Limewire, Quictime, Mail or some other small apps [like Preview], boy I am in real trouble. I had to do another clean install once in about two weeks, and I guess its time to do another one, repairing permissions wont do a thing, and I don't think OS9 is to blame, because it sits on a completely separate drive. I once heard someone that the reason my OSX was crashing so much on my G3 333 was because I had OS9 installed (on a separate drive as well) that's nonsense. When I got my G3 400 I ran it for a whole week whithout installing OS 9 at all. It would crash with Netscape, Acrobat and AOL just as often. I also heard talk about Limewire crashing the system as well. Sure, keep blaming third party software vendors, or poor programing. If Apple made those for their users there wouldn't be a reason to look for other sources.
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