Hi Esther and others,
the blog post from John is very helpful and makes me feel better that
once I find a monitor I'll have a nicely functioning mini. One interesting
thing about the observation concerning outside network resources. I have this
problem with Dropbox but not with google drive.
This is helpful as I can use google drive as a easy way to transfer files to
and from my mini just like dropbox. i'll do this until I find a monitor. I do
rely on Dropbox so this is only a temporary solution.
Eric Caron
On Jul 23, 2012, at 11:14 AM, Esther wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
> This sluggishness happens whenever you try to access external network
> resources. If you were trying to connect to a Windows machine as a networked
> device, or if you were using the now defunct MobileMe's iDisk, you would also
> get the Finder busy messages while running without without a monitor. (Well,
> you might get fewer busy messages if the connection were only on your local
> network.) I don't think this behavior can be changed according to the version
> of Dropbox, unfortunately. And I suspect that it won't go away with Mountain
> Lion, since similar behavior has been found for Mac Minis running without a
> monitor in early operating systems. I'm afraid that you'll either need to
> connect a monitor or get the Sewell Electronics adapter and use that with the
> Apple connector as John described in his "Adventures with My Mac Mini" blog
> post at his macfortheblind.com web page:
> http://macfortheblind.com/?p=591
>
> HTH.
>
> Esther
>
> On Jul 23, 2012, at 4:26 AM, Eric Caron wrote:
>
>> Hi listers,
>>
>> For anyone else using a mini, or if a similar problem developes here is what
>> happened for me with Dropbox and mmy finder.
>> last week I installed dropbox on my September 2011 mini, using OS 10.7.4 .
>> soon after that I noticed that my finder became busy and very sluggish. it
>> was almost unusable. relunching the finder and restarting the computer did
>> not help. finally, I called apple. After extended time struggling for
>> solutions using the sluggish finder we finally removed dropbox from the
>> start at login area under users in the system preferences. That did it.
>> the mini became snappy and very responsive again.
>>
>> I tried several older versions of dropbox and the newest beta and the
>> problem remains. this is happening under Lyon so I'm hoping that maybe with
>> Mountain Lyon the problem will go away.
>>
>> If anyone has this problem then at least this provides a temporary solution.
>>
>> if someone knows how I might use dropbox on a mini with no monitor please
>> share.
>>
>> Eventually, I will obtain a monitor and I will be very curious to see if
>> that truly solves some of these strange behaviors with the mini.
>>
>>
>> Eric Caron
>>
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