[MacTUG] Issues with Finder

[Dani Roloson]

I'm guessing you're sitting at the machine. I've seen this with ARD but not locally.
(I also had a nice incident with ARD where the mouse clicks seemed to happen an inch to the left of my cursor.)
I'd recommend in your case option-command-esc to open Force Quit and then Relaunch the Finder.
Possible fix is Repairing Disk Permissions with Disk Utility.
Good test would be booting from a fairly fresh install on an external hard drive and see if the problem persists.
If they don't have to be samba mounts, sshfs using OSXFUSE and Macfusion might help.
Also if you "View Status Bar", you can see if it is spinning waiting for the file list
(hopefully the file count in the directory isn't humungous … for instance, a 82,000 file directory of mine takes forever).

Dani
MFCF
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From: mactug-bounces at lists.uwaterloo.ca [mactug-bounces at lists.uwaterloo.ca] on behalf of Eric Bremner [ebremner at uwaterloo.ca]
Sent: November 29, 2012 10:01
To: MacTUG
Subject: [MacTUG] Issues with Finder

Just wondering if anyone has run into the issue where Finder "freezes"
when using network shares.  What happens is that when in Finder and
connect to one or more network shares you can not click with the mouse
anywhere in finder.  You can use the arrow keys on the keyboard to move
around the folders but can not click anywhere.  After awhile one of two
things happens, either Finder just closes itself or eventually you are
able to click in Finder.  Any ideas/thoughts?

Thanks,
Eric Bremner
Computing Consultant ­ University Relations
Information Systems Technology ­ Client Services
University of Waterloo
  200 University Avenue West
  Waterloo, Ontario
  Canada N2L 3G1
Office: (519) 888 ­ 4567 x 35578
Cell: (226) 339 - 8716
ebremner at uwaterloo.ca


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