Help: Finder "blinks" out
Otto Pylot
HD is designated as an emergency drive and is not used for anything
other than keeping a current virgin system on it and running disk
utilities on the other HD, which is the normal boot drive and has all
of our applications, data, etc on it. Both HDs were recently updated
with the 10.4.11 combo updater downloaded from Apple and not thru
Software Update. Permissions are ok and their are no problems with
either drive according to Disk Utilities.
Problem: The primary drive will "blink" after a couple of minutes and
go back to the Finder whether a folder is open or an application is
open. If I boot from the emergency drive, there is no problem at all so
it's got to be something with the OS on the primary drive. This
particular G4 can boot into OS 9.2.3 but I haven't done that in years.
OS 9.2.3 is still on the drive but I don't use it for anything. I doubt
if that's the problem but does anyone have any ideas on what I can do
to fix it other than wiping the drive and reinstalling the OS. There
are only two Users, me (as admin) and my son. I noticed that if I go to
the Users folder, my name, Library, Preferences, there seems to be
every pref for everything I've ever looked at or done. If I go to
Library on the desktop, Preferences, the list is much smaller and seems
to be more current. Could there be some kind of conflict between the
two pref folders. Obviously my understanding of the inner workings of
the OS leaves much to be desired. Thanks all.
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Gregory Weston
Otto Pylot <ot...@bogus.address.invalid> wrote:
Based on your description, I believe the behavior you're seeing is
Finder crashing and being relaunched. This usually happens as a result
of a 3rd-party plugin misbehaving. Most recently, the culprit seems to
be a conflict under 10.4 between the recently-released QuickTime 7.6 and
StuffIt's archive-via-rename component. If you have StuffIt AVR
installed, you can try disabling it via (as I understand it) a panel in
System Preferences or you can uninstall it completely if you never use
it and have an aversion to invasive software that doesn't benefit you.
G
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Otto Pylot
Gregory Weston <u...@splook.com> wrote:
Your suggestion worked great! I removed Stuffit AVR from the Pref Pane
and all is well. Whomever said the Usenet is dead and useless just
doesn't get it. Thanks.
E Z Peaces
> In article <uce-15415F.1...@newsclstr03.news.prodigy.net>,
>
> Your suggestion worked great! I removed Stuffit AVR from the Pref Pane
> and all is well. Whomever said the Usenet is dead and useless just
> doesn't get it. Thanks.
>
It happened to a relative. Against my advice, he erased his hard drive.
Later, it happened to me, and it didn't take long to find the answer
on the WWW.
From your description I didn't know if it was the same thing. In my
case, the symptom was that it would switch to the finder as if I'd
clicked the desktop.