Sunday 5 June 2011

Finder crashing on Mac OS X 10.6

Sometimes you will notice that opening a folder (either locally or on the network) will take a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time, if not just crash and burn after displaying the rainbow wheel for 15 minutes.

It could either be a corrupted PDF file, or a particularly heavy image file, or just the fact your folder contains 25 000 pictures.

To alleviate this problem, try to go, from the finder, to "View", then, at the bottom "show view options".

Uncheck the option at the bottom "Show icon preview" and click on "use as defaults"

A snappy finder coming right up!

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