Comments on: Leopard first impression http://mymacinations.com/2007/10/26/leopard-first-impression/ Yet another mac user's blog Sat, 21 Aug 2010 06:36:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Stuart http://mymacinations.com/2007/10/26/leopard-first-impression/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Stuart Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:40:45 +0000 http://mymacinations.com/2007/10/26/leopard-first-impression/#comment-10 I had similar problems installing onto a Powerbook G4 1.25Ghz with 512MB RAM. Thought it was Spotlight, but turned out to be an issue with a DivX entry in my user's Library/Application Support account. Had to rename the folder and then Finder relaunched fine. There are some third party haxies that seem to cause problems for PPC Leopard installs, so try removing them too (iScroll2 comes to mind). Once I got past that problem, Leopard on my powerbook was actually faster than tiger was! If you can, create a new user account with admin rights, log onto that and see if it makes a difference... I had similar problems installing onto a Powerbook G4 1.25Ghz with 512MB RAM. Thought it was Spotlight, but turned out to be an issue with a DivX entry in my user’s Library/Application Support account. Had to rename the folder and then Finder relaunched fine.

There are some third party haxies that seem to cause problems for PPC Leopard installs, so try removing them too (iScroll2 comes to mind).

Once I got past that problem, Leopard on my powerbook was actually faster than tiger was!

If you can, create a new user account with admin rights, log onto that and see if it makes a difference…

]]> By: Lazeez http://mymacinations.com/2007/10/26/leopard-first-impression/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Lazeez Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:55:09 +0000 http://mymacinations.com/2007/10/26/leopard-first-impression/#comment-7 That's interesting. I didn't get a chance to examine that because the laptop had only one account and I couldn't get far enough to test another account. What you're having means that something in the user account, a preference, a cache file is stopping the Finder from loading. You can try logging in from the working user account, and through the terminal delete all the cache files in the ~/Library/Caches for the stuck account and then see what files can be deleted from the ~/Library/Preferences folder like com.apple.finder.plist, com.apple.dock.plist basically anything that you think is not crucial and doesn't hold important data. That’s interesting. I didn’t get a chance to examine that because the laptop had only one account and I couldn’t get far enough to test another account.

What you’re having means that something in the user account, a preference, a cache file is stopping the Finder from loading. You can try logging in from the working user account, and through the terminal delete all the cache files in the ~/Library/Caches for the stuck account and then see what files can be deleted from the ~/Library/Preferences folder like com.apple.finder.plist, com.apple.dock.plist basically anything that you think is not crucial and doesn’t hold important data.

]]> By: Eric http://mymacinations.com/2007/10/26/leopard-first-impression/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Eric Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:37:10 +0000 http://mymacinations.com/2007/10/26/leopard-first-impression/#comment-6 The exact same thing is happening to me. Though I have quite a lot of files on mine. Everything seems to work alright except for the Finder not finishing from loading. However, the Finder works perfect on another user account of mine other than the main admin. Hmmmm???? The exact same thing is happening to me. Though I have quite a lot of files on mine. Everything seems to work alright except for the Finder not finishing from loading. However, the Finder works perfect on another user account of mine other than the main admin. Hmmmm????

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