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Finder using 75% cpu?
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My machine has been running a little sluggish lately, so I fired up Activity Monitor and noticed that the Finder is using 75% of my cpu. Is that normal? I also installed CodeTek Virtual Desktops yesterday and thought maybe that had something to do with it, but it doesn't seem to be using much processor power.
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Not trying to be a smarty but if it was ok before installing that software I'd say uninstall it and see if it reverts to normal.
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Looking at this CodeTek program, it seems to use code patching. So I'd bet that's probably it.
Like msuper69 said, try uninstalling it and see if the problem goes away.
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As a random out-of-nowhere response, the Finder will normally act like that for a while after viewing your drive in list view, with "calculate all sizes" turned on, as the Finder will spend a lot of time in the background calculating sizes.
That's what I run into, anyway.
Quit and restart the Finder and this behavior goes away.
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Originally Posted by Detrius
Quit and restart the Finder and this behavior goes away.
BTW there is a nice keyboard shortcut to do it… holding down the shift key and doing clic on Apple menu, you get "Force Quit Finder" instead of the typical "Force Quit…"
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Why force quit when you can just quit? Get Tinkertool and use it to toggle the hidden preference to add the Quit item to the File menu of the Finder. Then you can just command-Q to quit the Finder.
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uh, that trick only works if Finder is the foreground app. Otherwise, it's Force Quit Firefox, Mail, Preview, etc...
Open the Apple menu and press Shift to see what I mean.
Additionally, the root cause for your problem may be a corrupted preferences file. It's "/Users/username/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist" In the event relaunching Finder doesn't cure it's CPU consumption, just trash that file, and relaunch the Finder. You'll have to reconfigure it the way you prefer, but it should fix the issue.
(Last edited by merp; Mar 23, 2006 at 11:26 PM.
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