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Sep 16, 2007, 11:12 PM
 
recently since my restore i have been doing alot of organizing on my drives with files and what not. randomly when doing alot of movement around folders in the finder itll crash for a sec and then relaunch, it doenst hang or take time at all just really annoying. any got ideas? im gonna run some basic utilities but i dk!

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Sep 16, 2007, 11:56 PM
 
I have exactly the same problem.
This issues occurs in all of your computers or just 1?
If it occurs on your macpro then we might be closer to a solution. For me it happens on my macpro which is close to your specs.
     
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Sep 17, 2007, 11:30 AM
 
yeah its just on my macpro. i ran some disk utilities but it was at 3am and havent worked on it since. so well see what happens.

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Sep 17, 2007, 11:34 AM
 
This is happening on my iMac C2D, it only happens sometimes, and yes, it is very annoying. I haven't run any tests, but it only happens when moving files between my external HD and Internal and viaca versa.

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Sep 17, 2007, 11:59 AM
 
like to add, on my MBP 2.16 2GB ram, once again in the finder moving files between windows etc etc. crashed restarted etc etc.!!!!!


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Sep 18, 2007, 08:21 AM
 
It could be your RAM. hard drive, OS, some rouge application....You need to start troubleshooting.
     
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Sep 19, 2007, 05:18 PM
 
This sounds like an on-going bug that has been in the Finder since 10.0. There is no exact explanation to pin it on, but it seems like it may be connected to corrupted files, especially images with corrupted preview icons. I expect it will be fixed (along with a number of other bugs) in Leopard, but I'm not holding my breath. Are any of the files you're moving in a folder with icon previews on? Sometimes, turning icon previews off will help.
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