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CTRL-click --> spinning beachball of death
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My TiBook 1 GHz works fine, but the one thing that seems to trip it up is doing a CTRL-click. Quite often it means a 5+ second delay until the contextual menu pops up, esp. if it's just the first time after launching an app. This is true for many apps.
Anyone else have the same problem?
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Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
My TiBook 1 GHz works fine, but the one thing that seems to trip it up is doing a CTRL-click. Quite often it means a 5+ second delay until the contextual menu pops up, esp. if it's just the first time after launching an app. This is true for many apps.
Anyone else have the same problem?
No, works great in Safari f.i. on a iMac 400MHz 
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Wild, I haven't seen this behavior myself...
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Can't say I've seen that before. 
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>Anyone else have the same problem
I had this problem after installing a third party contextual menu item... Check in your various contextual menu items folders...
If you can control click as another user then it is definitely a 3rd party thing...
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Just logged into another account. Launched Safari. Let it load the home page. Chose a link and clicked CTRL-click.
Spinning beachball. Only a 2 second beachball delay, but I still got the delay.
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I had this happen in Jaguar occasionally. This is a stretch, but try deleting the global windowserver prefs (in /Library/Preferences).
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I definitely get this delay.
It's doing a disk access for something. I have menumeters with HD light on.
In Safari, if I click on a bookmark folder in the Bookmarks Bar for the first time, about 5 seconds of disk access. I can't imagine what it is doing besides reading URLs for a dozen or so bookmarks in that folder. Now that I think about it, I think it's reading the bookmarks for all items in the Bookmarks Bar, because I don't get this delay on any other bookmark folders afterward. But, certainly this doesn't account for 25MB/s * 5 seconds of disk activity. 
In the Finder, the control-click or right-click on any file or folder creates a delay with long disk accesses (5 seconds). In the case of files, I'm thinking its looking for applications that are candidates for opening said file. But, I get this delay even when clicking on the desktop.
Items in my Contextual Menu for the desktop:
New Folder
Get Info
Change Desktop Background...
Enable Folder Actions
Configure Folder Actions...
Nudge "Desktop"
Add To Portfolio
This delay is only for first-time accesses, like Eug said.
Also, this is the only time I get the beach-ball in OS X Panther on a dual 500Mhz G4 system with 2GB RAM.
Sounds like some more optimizing is in order.
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MAJ
(Last edited by digital_dreamer; Feb 2, 2004 at 01:12 AM.
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the only time I get delays in panther on my MDD is when finder needs to wake up a hard for some reason. so do you have you apps on a drive other than your boot volume? is your home folder (and bookmarks) on another drive?
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It's a laptop drive, so it could be a drive sleep thing but I can't imagine why the contextual menus wouldn't simply be loaded in memory, when the app is launched. It's not as if it'd take up much memory. (Not much other stuff loaded either.)
Oh, and Safari 1.2 doesn't change anything. There are still a couple second delays at times.
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Originally posted by Macola:
I had this happen in Jaguar occasionally. This is a stretch, but try deleting the global windowserver prefs (in /Library/Preferences).
I still get this problem, deleting the global windowserver prefs doesn't help. I also shut off disk sleeping with this TiBook (1 GHz 768 MB memory) and it doesn't help.
I usually get it with a fresh program launch. eg. Launch Safari, and the first CTRL-click will be give me a delay. Afterwards there is no delay. Quit Safari and relaunch, and I'll get same problem.
I just tried this with a 17" PowerBook and a 14" iBook in the store and no delay, even after a relaunch of Safari.
I don't want to reinstall the OS for this minor but VERY ANNOYING problem.  
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make sure there is no third party plugin in '/Library/Contextual Menu Items'
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Ya you got any third party items or hacks in there?
Also run a permissions check.
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