Post by: Frances144 on March 06, 2010, 08:33:25 AM
When I open the folder the icons do not show the thumbnail of the photo, despite all the right boxes being ticked in View Options.
Occasionally, it might manage to show them but it is a very slow process. Is there anyway to kick up the bottom to show my thumbnails?
Is it not cataloguing them or something - the computer is on sleep all night and possibly not doing its housekeeping.I tried reparing permissions but this did nothing. I downloaded a copy of CocoThumbX and that is fine for stuff on the Desktop/HD but is rather a slow process. It won't work with disks though - the disk photos won't show their thumbnails hardly at all.
What is going on?
Post by: Xairbusdriver on March 06, 2010, 09:04:56 AM
I suspect it comes from bloated caches, particularly those that maintain the folder data. That could be the infamous ".DS_store" files inside every folder. They are invisible (because of the leading ".") but there are many apps/utilities that can delete them...until the folder gets opened again. But that very task may, indeed, help. But it could be extremely time-consuming with the normal system with hundreds of thousands of folders! 
What I ended up doing, during various tasks in preparation for upgrading her to Snow Leopard (from Tiger, BTW) was to run Disk Warrior's directory rebuilding function. I intend to also use TechTool Pro's volume de-frag function, also. While those too tasks are probably not directly related to this slowness, it may be increasing the access to the actual images when they are requested to be displayed. those files must be read into display memory from where ever the data actually resides.
Her folder displays normally now but I cannot positively define any of my work as the exact cause. OTROH, none of the above should prove damaging, as long as you have proven, bootable back ups!
No doubt some one will come along in a few minutes and provide a link to some completely simple, effective and proven method.
The above is simply my personal observations. YMMV. 
Another possibility is to simply remove 99.999% of your images (and other files) from your drive.
Post by: Paddy on March 06, 2010, 09:30:59 AM
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?m...6�
Jim may have also hit the nail on the head (in a rather round-about way
) - there could be some issues with the caches/ds.store files. So you can also try running either Cocktail or Onyx to clean caches. Those *should* be cleaned regularly by your system, late at night or (if you're running Leopard or SL - not sure which machine this is) whenever you restart. However, if you never restart and let your Mac sleep through the night, those caches could miss the normal cleaning and maintenance, which is when Cocktail and Onyx become quite handy.http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10329892-263.html
Try deleting the plists first - that's the fastest/easiest, and if that doesn't work, run either Onyx or Cocktail.
http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english/apps.html (Onyx is free, Cocktail has a free preview)
http://www.maintain.se/cocktail/index.php
Post by: Xairbusdriver on March 06, 2010, 02:17:00 PM
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Jim may have also hit the nail on the head (in a rather round-about way
I take offense at that remark! Very judgmental and totally uncalled for! 
I hardly ever miss a nail, even though I stand with my back to it and use two mirrors, strategically placed, and use a five-pound sledge hammer! So, there! 
You're probably right, as usual, I was just doing the repairs for another reason and noticed the improvements. BTW, Apple still claims that those maintenance scripts get run regardless of how long the computer is off or whether it is asleep or not. Of course, none of this happens until you turn it on or wake it up. I only let the Screen 'sleep' since I have the Folding@home processes running.
There are still some who don't believe Apple made this change back in 10.4.5 (I think), but I suspect that one reason is that OnyX, etc. still supply this function and many assume that it still needs to be done manually, if the machine is OFF during those preset o'dark thirty times.
Post by: Frances144 on March 06, 2010, 03:43:14 PM