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gchunt - Apr 19, 2006 - 11:53 am

This event just started to happen... no new installs, etc. Each time i try to open any folder on any local or server drive the finder hangs. right click on dock icon shows app not responding. this happens with all apps when i try to open any file. any ideas what might be going on?

philippe99 - Apr 21, 2006 - 5:20 am

Hi and welcome to macosx.com

Could you follow this article:
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/finder.html
and delete the Finder's prefs. Perhaps this simple action will help you ?
Philippe

gchunt - Apr 24, 2006 - 3:34 pm

Thanks, Philippe! It sort of worked... now it takes a painstakingly long time to see server files, open them, save to it... not sure what that's all about... checked ethernet, etc and had my IT person look at the settings in network - and they say the info there is correct... including the 100baseTX network. any ideas why this is happening?

philippe99 - Apr 25, 2006 - 6:37 am

(1) for files/folders on your internal drive, no slowness ?
(2) could you follow the following article
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/repairprocess.html
and especially the two steps:

a. repair permission
b. clean cache (using Yasu for instance, a freeware; http://www.jimmitchell.org/yasu/)

(3) are servers you access Windows based ?

Regards
Philippe

gchunt - Apr 26, 2006 - 10:42 am

Hello Philippe... running fsck -fy for the 28th time in single user mode. still has not reported no problems found... our of curiosity, how many times does fsck have to run - or is it relative to the size of drive and number of files on the drive?
most apps freeze and show a greyed out app not responding in the sub menu that pops up so i just force quit. accessing files on internal drives is slow, but does not freeze.
will clean cache after /sbin/fsck -fy is finished.
corporate servers are windows based. and... there were no problems with this system nor connecting, reading writing to the servers when running Mac OS 9. These problems seemed to grow the longer i worked with OS X 10.3.9

philippe99 - Apr 26, 2006 - 1:29 pm

(1) in general 5 or 6 times of fsck is enough ;-)
(2) how many free space do you still have on your machine ?
In general, for panther, one says that you must not go down under 25% of you hard drive total size

Phil

gchunt - Apr 26, 2006 - 1:42 pm

Hmmmm. and I'm on the 39th!!! more than 60% of the drive is free space.

philippe99 - Apr 26, 2006 - 1:57 pm

Well, I hope cleaning cache will help; I have no experience with Windows based servers.
Phil

gchunt - Apr 28, 2006 - 11:51 am

Seems that after 80+ runs of /sbin/fsck -fy in single user mode i'm still getting repairs to disk message. not quite sure what the problem is, all apps on the hard drive launch then as soon as i try to open a file - on server or on internal hard drives - the app hangs. right clicking the app icon in dock shows the greyed out app not responding and force quit is active. I'm beginning to think that i should just do a complete clean install of 10.3 and update it to 10.3.9, then install the apps i use - adobe photoshop, illustrator, quarkxpress, ms office for mac, etc. and hope that does the trick.... what do you think?

philippe99 - Apr 28, 2006 - 12:51 pm

Yes, I think so: clean install with wiping hard drive

In your case, I would run before DiskWarrior, the last solution when drive faces problems, but if you do not have this commercial tool, forget it and proceed a clean install. backup your important documents on the Windowz server before.

Phil

gchunt - Apr 28, 2006 - 1:25 pm

thanks! i was going to pbuy disk warrior and techtools pro first, then run them to see if they correct whatever has happened to this system. My last resort will be a clean install. will let you know the outcome.