Contextual menu sloooooooow...

[Carvin' Dunes]

Gang,
I'm using 10.2.6. A couple of times, I've been cleaning out the cache
folder that Eudora seems to have put no size limit on by default. I
was using the list view (whatever it's called...it's the list view from
previous versions of the OS), had the triangle clicked to show that
folder's contents.

I selected a good couple dozen files, and ctrl-clicked on them, and as
I scrolled the mouse down to the Move to Trash option, the blue line
stalled on the Open command for several seconds. Then eventually it
jumped to catch up with the mouse pointer, which was waiting on Move to
Trash.

I did this several times, and it seems that the stall is proportional
to the number of files I have selected--greater number of files, the
longer I wait.

This is more than a little frustrating, because I have something of the
same issue using OS9 on my work computer. Sometimes that contextual
menu is extremely slow to appear at all on that computer, sometimes
pops up immediately.

Do I just not have the correct clicking motion? ;-)

Any suggestions on how to fix this in OSX appreciated (the work
computer will hopefully be replaced with a G5 later this year!)

TIA,
_dennis

[Jeremy]

Carvin' Dunes <ask@ifyouneedit.com> wrote:

> I did this several times, and it seems that the stall is proportional
> to the number of files I have selected--greater number of files, the
> longer I wait.

Yep. It's a serious design flaw. Try selecting a couple thousand files,
and see Finder take a vacation, possibly a permanent one.

> Do I just not have the correct clicking motion? ;-)

What you want to do is bring up the menu, then swing the mouse out to the
left, outside the menu, moving it down past Open without actually going
over it and thus highlighting it. Be careful. Get too close in, and
you may find yourself force-restarting Finder.

> Any suggestions on how to fix this in OSX appreciated (the work
> computer will hopefully be replaced with a G5 later this year!)

I'm hoping the new Finder in 10.3 will do something about this.

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Jeremy | [email]jeremy@exit109.com[/email]