Hi. I needed to delete several mp3 files in my music folder (probably about 500). I pressed "Command + A" to select all and attempted to drag them to the trash. It caused the beachball, then the Finder crashed- I had to restart the system. I tried it again, it crashed again.
This has never happened to me before. Is it because:
a) it is too many files to select and attempt to drag or delete at once.
b) the new hard drive I installed is causing some conflict or error within the Finder of my system.
c) both a + b.
I would have typed this up as a survey, that would have been clever perhaps, but I am more interested at this point in humbly requesting help on this. I have never experienced this type of instability with the system and am really concerned.
Other relevant notes:
-The system does not crash except when the above task is attempted.
-The files I attempted to delete were extracted from my iPod using 'Xpod"
-Various programs including Cubase SX, Photoshop 7, and Safari have been installed and have ran perfectly so far.
-Various drivers including Kensington Mouseworks and Midiman Audiophile 2496 have been installed and have ran perfectly so far.
-Various preference panes from the "Application Enhancers" series (from Unsanity i believe) have been installed and have ran perfectly so far.
-A new hard drive was installed yesterday, 01/16/03. It is a Maxtor 120Gb drive with 8Mb cache.
-I formatted the new drive and set it as master. The older drive remains as slave- it is the 40Gb drive that came with my Mac.
-I never tried to select and manipulate this many files at once on the previous hard drive.
This is all the information I can think of right now that would assist in resolving this issue. So, again, I ask: "Do you think it's the hard drive or the finder?"
Thank you so much for any help!!
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