Re: Is there a way to keep a floating window open?
Re: Is there a way to keep a floating window open?
- Subject: Re: Is there a way to keep a floating window open?
- From: "David B. Gustavson" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 11:35:11 -0800
At 5:25 PM +0000 1/6/06, kai wrote:
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Wow, that is a gold mine of useful techniques!! Thank you!
But now OT (except I'd like to use Tiger's improvements):
I tried switching to Tiger some months back, but had to roll back to
X.3.9 after a couple weeks.
Everything worked fine for me except the Find mechanism (I think
that's the culprit).
Is there a way to disable Tiger's acclaimed search and go back to
X.3.9's Find? I looked a bit but didn't find a way.
I suspect the problem is that I have too much disk space and too many
files, about 1600GB and a million or so.
Typical symptom: I went to search for a file whose name contains
"Halloween", and as soon as I typed the "h" the system became
unresponsive for minutes, after which it returned about 600000 files
containing "h". I found it really hard to type fast enough, or to
remember that I had to type so fast, to avoid this kind of nonsense.
It pretty much required typing the search term somewhere else and
using cut and paste into the Find text box, which I never could
remember to do.
And I have my files organized by habit to have useful file names so
that I rarely benefit from content searches, and thus haven't enabled
those in previous versions.
There were other unexplained many-seconds losses of responsiveness
that greatly impacted the useability, which I guessed were due to the
search mechanism updating its index files under the covers, but I
don't know for sure. Overall, far from its reputed improvement in
responsiveness, for me Tiger was just agonizingly unresponsive to the
point of being unusable. (But it works fine on my wife's ancient G3
desktop, installed using XpostFacto!!! But she has normal size hard
drives, and isn't used to using searches except within Eudora. I'm
running a MDD twin 1GHz G4 1.25GB)
The agony finally got so great I went back to X.3.9, with great
regret as I prefer to stay just a bit behind the bleeding edge.
Does anyone know how to work around this problem?
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