Following up on my previous article about good stuff, here’s a negative.
Periodically, when using Coverflow mode in the new Finder, this is what happens. First I notice my fans starting the rev up, then the system begins to bog down.
It appears Finder might have a problem… Activity monitor shows Finder running between 100% and 180% CPU utilization.
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The Finder was the main thing I was hoping they’d fix in Leopard. I’ve been tempted to ditch it but I’ve held off on the assumption that Leopard would offer a working version. I don’t care for any of the fancy cover flow stuff, I just want it to be a bit snappier… not bog the whole machine down.
The Finder was the main thing I was hoping they’d fix in Leopard. I’ve been tempted to ditch it but I’ve held off on the assumption that Leopard would offer a working version. I don’t care for any of the fancy cover flow stuff, I just want it to be a bit snappier… not bog the whole machine down.
It is snappier in all the other modes. Using coverflow does seem to be the resource hog causing the problem.
I’d guess it’s a result of trying to pull in thumbnails for quicklook, and the problem might go away once it’s been through all my files – if it saves the quickook preview somehow.
I haven’t been able to say for certain, but I think it happens when I look at a folder with lots of video files in it.
It is needless eye-candy, but, I will say, it is quite nice for browsing through a folder filed with PDFS and docs.
Network sharing is almost unbelievably fast compared to the old Finder. It finds and detects other computer sharing on the network almost instantaneously, and doesn’t suffer from the 45 second almost complete lockup when you loose a share anymore.
It is snappier in all the other modes. Using coverflow does seem to be the resource hog causing the problem.
I’d guess it’s a result of trying to pull in thumbnails for quicklook, and the problem might go away once it’s been through all my files – if it saves the quickook preview somehow.
I haven’t been able to say for certain, but I think it happens when I look at a folder with lots of video files in it.
It is needless eye-candy, but, I will say, it is quite nice for browsing through a folder filed with PDFS and docs.
Network sharing is almost unbelievably fast compared to the old Finder. It finds and detects other computer sharing on the network almost instantaneously, and doesn’t suffer from the 45 second almost complete lockup when you loose a share anymore.