On Dec 28, 2008, at 11:11 AM, Stephen Conrad wrote:
>> >> What do the names look like? >> What apps are running at the time? >> And of course, the standard questions: Mac, OS, etc... > > B&W G3 > 10.2.8 (long story on why my 10.4.11 machine is not here yet) This is a very VERY common issue with Finder pre-10.4. It's easily demonstrated: start Terminal, which will land you in your home directory. type: cd Desktop and hit return. Now you have a terminal window open to the Desktop folder. type: touch TestMe.txt and hit return. Watch while it takes Finder up to thirty or forty seconds to realize that a new file was created. When it appears on the Desktop, go back into the terminal window and type: rm TestMe.txt And it will take as long for it to disappear. Programs that create temp files where the original file is (Word is one culprit) will sometimes show filed flickering into life and then they're gone and still show on the Desktop. If you've gone and enabled invisible files to be visible, this is even worse. -- Bruce Johnson "No matter where you go, there you are", B. Banzai --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
