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Strange GUI Glitches in Snow Leopard
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Overall, I love this OS. For a lot of reasons, it just makes sense. Now, if only it would work properly.
First off, I noticed one oddity. I was copying files between two external firewire drives. Copying one file at a time was fine. HOWEVER. When I tried copying several files one after the other, non-synchronously, ALL desktop folder icons DISAPPEARED. But only for a second. Needless to say, this came as quite a shock. No problems aside from this momentary glitch, but still disappionting.
Second, Quicktime is weird. Again, this is when I have multiple files open. The top bar of the quicktime window becomes corrupted. Second, the menu on top of the screen is just random bits of video from the quicktime videos. So bizarre.
Anyone dealing with this? Is there a fix?
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The first thing you described was a Finder crash. The Finder draws the icons on the desktop, so if it crashes, the icons will disappear until it starts back up.
The other one sounds like either bad memory or a wonky video card, but it's hard to tell. Have you ever had any other weird crashes or drawing bugs?
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I've not noticed anything like this until the last month or so, which coincides with the installation of Snow Leopard.
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I'm thinking this is a quicktime issue. I've seen the graphics glitches on the top of the quicktime window also.
As far as the external drive issue, I don't know. I think I just overloaded the data moving through firewire and the OS couldn't keep up?
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You shouldn't see any graphics glitches. That could definitely be hardware-related as mentioned (hopefully not).
As for the copying issue, you can't "overload" the OS. It could be a Finder crash as mentioned, or it could have just been the window updating with the new contents. How long did everything disappear for?
Steve
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Approximately one second.
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Look at (and/or show us) a list of crash logs. You can do it manually by going into your user ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter folder, or run some commands in Terminal (using copy/paste):
• for the last ten Finder crashes
ls -hlnotr ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter |grep Finder |tail
• or simply the last ten crashes
ls -hlnotr ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter |tail
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Originally Posted by mackandproud 
Approximately one second.
That's just refreshing. Nothing to worry about.
Steve
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I've also seen weird GUI glitches after upgrading to Snow Leopard.
I've had the menu bar disappear on me in Firefox when opening Mail, and then quickly switching back to Firefox via the Dock. But the menus are still "there" - if you start to click where they should be, they'll show back up. Kinda weird.
I've also had some weird screen glitches that were very quick - almost like the infamous Tyler Durden insertions in Fight Club. 
Odd stuff.
greg
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