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RevEvs · Mar 30, 2004, 09:24 PM

is it just me or do the open and save dialog boxes take ages to open?

Im on a dual 2gig with plenty of ram and the first time i go to save or open something in an app i get the spinning beachball and have to wait 20 seconds....

..is it just me?

(btw, dont even start with the "fix permissions"

)

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Terri · Mar 30, 2004, 09:43 PM

Doesn't do that in mine, they just pop open.

Something is up, are you running any third party stuff in your system?

moreno · Mar 30, 2004, 10:28 PM

install microsoft windows.

Adam Betts · Mar 30, 2004, 11:12 PM

Originally posted by moreno:
install microsoft windows.

I tried that on my computer but it doesn't work

gorickey · Mar 30, 2004, 11:55 PM

Originally posted by Adam Betts:
I tried that on my computer but it doesn't work

You need OS 8.1 to complete the installation...

RevEvs · Mar 31, 2004, 09:08 AM

Well it only seems to be on my user account, so ill go trash some prefs and caches n see if that helps.

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SMacTech · Mar 31, 2004, 09:13 AM

My first thought would be that a drive has spun down, but 20 seconds is way too long for that to be the case. My external FW was set to spin down and it caused a delay , but it was more like 3-4 seconds. Same thing with my iPod.

RevEvs · Mar 31, 2004, 09:28 AM

Its definitely not the drive spinning down. It seems much faster on a new user (much faster = instant) - i might get round to creating a new user for myself when i get time.
Tried deleting caches etc... that was no help... ill have a mess around n see what else could be causing it.

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Diggory Laycock · Mar 31, 2004, 09:36 AM

I find that open/save panels are much slower in Panther when you are in a remote directory (even if the volume you are browsing is on your LAN)

I find this especially in SubEthaEdit.

ryju · Mar 31, 2004, 09:49 AM

I would probably create a new user account and switch everything over. Or you could delete your entire library and have it regenerate.

SubGeniux · Mar 31, 2004, 10:27 AM

Simple fix for this cause Apple in all their wisdom set the time for it to god awful slow. You can either tweak a plist to do it, or just grab hold of Coctail, and there's a little slider to adjust the speed of all dialogs like the open/save one.

RevEvs · Mar 31, 2004, 10:53 AM

Originally posted by SubGeniux:
Simple fix for this cause Apple in all their wisdom set the time for it to god awful slow. You can either tweak a plist to do it, or just grab hold of Coctail, and there's a little slider to adjust the speed of all dialogs like the open/save one.

Im not talking about how long it takes to do the animation, what i get is something like a 10 second delay and spinning beachball before the animation even shows.
Well think i may mess around with the preferences...

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RevEvs · Mar 31, 2004, 11:48 AM

OK I figured it out. It turns out its the iDisk.

There must have been something wrong with the mirror and so when i have a dialog pop up it would take ages trying to sort the idisk out...

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