[Trojak]

This has been a problem that is just driving me nuts. I am running Tiger 10.4.11 (but it's been doing it for about six months or so) and it is very sporadic.

At times, any finder-related actions such as selecting a file or app from a window is delayed by one step. For example, I will open a window, go to select "A" and nothing happens, then I will go to select "B" and "A" will be highlighted,and so on. The only thing that resolves the issue is to close all open windows and start again, at which point the problem is gone — until it resurfaces again at a later time.

Anyone else experiencing this and sharing my frustration? Any tips?

[ibook_steve]

Welcome to our forums!

Ouch, that's weird. What hardware are you on? If you relaunch the Finder (cmd-opt-esc, select the Finder and click relaunch), does the problem persist?

Have you recently installed any software that may be the cause? Have you repaired permissions from Disk Utility (probably won't help, but it can't hurt)?

Steve

[Trojak]

Steve:

Thanks for the reply. I am on a MacBook Core 2 Duo, 2GHz.

Relaunching the finder does, indeed, get rid of the problem for the time being. Then it recurs, and this can happen at any time (though I'll start looking more closely at what's running when it does).

No, on the new software additions and yes, I did repair disk permissions.

Let me know if you think of anything and, again, thanks.

[Andrew Stephens]

Have a rummage in homefolder/Library/Preferences and move the file com.apple.finder.plist out of the folder onto the desktop and restart.

Could be a corrupt prefs file.