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I'm still trying to imagine a user who needs to throw away thousands and thousands of files on a regular basis.

I've never run into such hangs.  I suspect it's just a sign of age, and a G4/400 was not much more powerful than a nearly clocked G3, and my parents' old Blue and White G3 could handle OS X on a day to day basis, but certainly wasn't a champ at it.

I have broadband and I an a pretty lavish usenet downloader so me deleteing 10,000 to 20,000 files, 2 or 3 gig, is an almost daily thing.
The old Finder never had a problem with that.

Twisted Guy wrote:

The old Finder could also completely hog every ounce of system resources and didn't even have to think about sharing.

Ya, I need to get more savy about renicing stuff. It bugs the smurf out of me when I have a foreground process going and it only gets 50% cpu power.
I regularly am decoding very large RARs and under default settings MacUnRar will only use 50%.
Thats not a feature, its a flaw.
When I have a big job to do I want the process in question to hog every resource it can get.

Last edited by Pariah (2005-07-27 7:27 pm)

I'll go on cleanout sprees from time to time, and other than taking forever, my G3/500 has never had any problems deleting tens of thousands of files at a time.

Maybe it's the 2 or 3 gigs you're deleting; I can't recall ever deleting more than a gig at a time.

after-life wrote:

Why won't Apple fix the Finder? *sigh*

You should probably just go into the terminal and enter "sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash/*" and see if that does the trick.

Um....
If I wanted to deal with crap like the terminal I would have been happy with DOS.

sosumi wrote:

I'm still trying to imagine a user who needs to throw away thousands and thousands of files on a regular basis.

someone who develops software.

Ceemkm wrote:

Ya I would say empty your trash more often

... from someone who only uses a computer at home....

after-life wrote:

You should probably just go into the terminal and enter "sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash/*" and see if that does the trick.

noob.

Robert B. wrote:

are you secure emptying? That takes longer.

noob.


seriously, what the eff.  i identify with this guy.

I couldn't resist actually going and making said script, and it was much simpler to get it to ask for a password than I remembered it to be.

do shell script "rm -rf ~/.Trash/*" with administrator privileges

Paste this line into Script Editor - then save as an application. Name it something like KillTrash.

Now you have an icon on your desktop you can double click, enter a password, and have rm do the dirty work of emptying the trash, rather than the finder.

My old Dual 500 running 10.3.9 doesn't hang on emptying 10-20,000 items in the trash. Are these items being trashed from the same partition as your OS or a different partition or disk? Could be a permissions issue.

Jill wrote:

sosumi wrote:

I'm still trying to imagine a user who needs to throw away thousands and thousands of files on a regular basis.

someone who develops software.

Ceemkm wrote:

Ya I would say empty your trash more often

... from someone who only uses a computer at home....

after-life wrote:

You should probably just go into the terminal and enter "sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash/*" and see if that does the trick.

noob.

Robert B. wrote:

are you secure emptying? That takes longer.

noob.


seriously, what the eff.  i identify with this guy.

smurf off, smartass.

Same problem here, only it hapens when searching with the Finder.  Too many hits and it crashes.  It used to be just a few thousand, so I know Apple did something.  But, there still is a limit somewhere above 10,000 where it still hangs.

Blandford Fly wrote:

all this fussin' and fighting' is screwing with my finder.

So...you guys regularly trash all your p0rn?   The only way I could trash 10,000 files is to delete my entire system, which I did once...the Finder sure hung that night :blush:

I have about 70,000 files outside the OS partition and 127,000 on the OS partition and that's just after a cleaned cache.

smilr wrote:

Light Speed wrote:

Blandford Fly wrote:

all this fussin' and fighting' is screwing with my finder.

So...you guys regularly trash all your p0rn?   The only way I could trash 10,000 files is to delete my entire system, which I did once...the Finder sure hung that night :blush:

I have about 70,000 files outside the OS partition and 127,000 on the OS partition and that's just after a cleaned cache.

Thats my one gripe about os X's Unix underpinnings as compared to os 9 - the file system bloat incurred by the OS itself.

The only time I don't like it is when i do a new first backup. The rest of the time I couldn't care less.