[tarassg]

I upgraded from 10.3.9 to 10.4.10 , my ibook G3's desktop/finder keeps refeshing every few minutes whenever i browse in the finder. I often have to click again to get back to finder.

It happens every few minutes or so with no programs running. Any other suggestions?

[JKT]

It is likely that you have an incompatible plug-in (such as an input manager) or contextual menu item installed. Do the following:

a) Log out of your account then log back in while holding down the shift key - this will do two things:

1. it will disable all third party extensions and fonts and your login items, and
2. it will clear a number of caches to the trash.

b) Navigate to ~/Library/Contextual Menu Items (or /Library/Contextual Menu Items if that is where they are installed) and move the contents out of the folder to e.g. a temporary folder on the desktop. Do the same for the contents of the ~/Library/Input Managers and /Library/Input Managers folders. Fwiw, the most likely culprit for this behaviour is Stuffit Expander's contextual menu item, so if you want to do it in a step-by-step fashion, try removing this first, upgrade to the latest version of Stuffit Expander and choose not to install the plug-in.

c) Once removed, log out and back in again and the Finder shouldn't crash any more. If it still does, the next potential culprits are Quicktime plug-ins such as DivX. Remove and upgrade them to their latest versions in a similar fashion.

[tarassg]

Thanks JKT, you're spot on. It is the StuffitCM.plugin.

There is a patch release to fix the finder problem.