Re: Apple: Please deal with basics
Re: Apple: Please deal with basics
- Subject: Re: Apple: Please deal with basics
- From: garbanzito <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 11:21:38 -0600
at 2002 04 21, 08:43 -0700, they whom i call Paul Berkowitz wrote:
On 4/21/02 6:56 AM, "Mr Tea" <email@hidden> wrote:
This from garbanzito - dated 21/4/02 07.17 am:
Finder quits on me more often than any other application.
Good heavens, Steve! What are you doing to it? I only manage to crash the
Finder about once a week.
I don't think I have had one single Finder crash in almost a year of OS X. I
didn't know it was possible. Steve must be "doing" things to it. Hacks to
make X work like 9?
hardly. i've been using Finder since the release of the
Public Beta. i have several crashes a week, which is more
than any other app i use regularly, except perhaps Classic.
i have absolutely no Mac OS 9 "retro" hacks on my system,
thank you. i use column view except when i want to sort by
something other than filename.
most crashes occur unpredictably, but somewhat in
association with: 1) doing large transfers, especially to
FireWire drives. 2) asking Finder to multithread heavily
(e.g. several simultaneous copies). 3) working with and
burning CDs and disk images. 4) dragging things around.
> While I feel that it's probably safe to accept the always well-informed
opinion of Paul Berkowitz that the X Finder is 'incomparably better' than
what went before, it still behaves like a piece of buggy freeware in some
crucial areas.
I was referring just to its applescripting.
okay, there i'd agree. though i don't do much Finder scripting,
i've seen little to fault it that way.
my list views (the only view I use0 never re-format themselves. What do you
mean? I almost always use column view, and they just stay that way. It's
true they zip over to the left when i select something - maybe that's what
you mean. I actually find that convenient 90% of the time. I like to see the
detail on the right. the columns seem to keep the width I assign them. Don't
they for you?
when Finder crashes it loses recent changes, such as changes
to column widths. since it crashes much more often than i
log out, i rarely get my changes saved. also, on the
occasions i open new Finder windows, i also almost never get
column view, and i often don't get my toolbar. but those are
the settings of the only Finder windows i have open when i
last logged out.
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steve harley email@hidden
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