Having posted my own query on this subject I follow the more recent
postings with interest.
In my case I was suffering from 1)unbelievably long copy times in the
finder and 2)applications hanging on opening them.
I believe my problems have been solved by
1) Running Disk Warrior, Tech Tool Pro, Onyx and maintenance scripts
2) Zapping PRAM (thanks Peter H)
3) Doing a long intended font purge by removing entirely all the many
fonts that I did not want, leaving still a list of 63 fonts total in
Font Book. This is an inflated number as true type fonts come up with
each style as a separate font. I found "Font Management in OS X, by
Kurt Lang" from the internet an informative guide here, there are many
such postings; I did not have the one from Ronni to hand. Naturally I
have saved all the removed fonts!
4) Purging font caches (Onyx) and repairing Disk Permissions.
I believe that Zapping the PRAM was the key step, at least now the
finder copies at a remembered good speed and applications open happily
again.
I hope others have similar success.
Severin Crisp
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