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    Blinking folder slowing computer

    Posted by Saya Hillman on April 15, 2009 at 4:03 pm

    Hi there –

    I tried trashing two empty folders from my desktop on my MBP, by dragging them over to the trash. Now one of them, grayed out, continuously blinks over the trash and is slowing up my computer (lag time between when I click and when an action occurs). I tried restarting, shutting down, ejecting all ext HDs, unplugging…. not sure why this happened or how to fix it.

    Any thoughts?
    Thanks!
    April

    MAC OSX 10.5.6
    1.8 GHz Power PC iMAC G5
    768 MB DDR SDRAM

    MAC OSX 10.5.2
    2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MacBookPro
    2 GB MHz DDR2 SDRAM

    LaCie d2 Extreme 160GB 7200 RPM 8MB Buffer
    LaCie Big Disk 380GB
    FCP 6.0.5

    Saya Hillman replied 17 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Zane Barker

    April 16, 2009 at 3:21 am

    Try selecting it and pressing command+delete that should send it to the trash. Then try emptying the trash via the finder.

    There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
    Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!

  • Saya Hillman

    April 16, 2009 at 3:44 am

    Thanks Zane, worked perfectly! Greatly appreciated –

    MAC OSX 10.5.6
    1.8 GHz Power PC iMAC G5
    768 MB DDR SDRAM

    MAC OSX 10.5.2
    2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MacBookPro
    2 GB MHz DDR2 SDRAM

    LaCie d2 Extreme 160GB 7200 RPM 8MB Buffer
    LaCie Big Disk 380GB
    FCP 6.0.5

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