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  • folder won’t open

    Posted by Peter Ralph on June 30, 2006 at 11:12 pm

    10.3.9 – g5

    an intermittent problem where certain folders won’t open. I can expand the folder in the sidebar and all the files are accessible but if I double click then the folder window pops up empty for a second and then closes and a completely different window shows up. Then the problem goes away after a day or two – a couple of weeks later it happens with another folder. Any ideas?

    George replied 19 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Simon Carlson-thies

    July 1, 2006 at 5:38 am

    Verify your disk…

    Are you running anyother applications when it happens…?

    When did it start?

    What’s in the folder…?

    Simon Carlson-Thies,
    Digital Light Graphics And Animation

  • Peter Ralph

    July 1, 2006 at 6:00 am

    the problem was .m2v files created by compressor 1 in 10.3.5. – (I cant get compressor 2 in 10.3.9 to behave) – for some reason these files wont even show the getinfo, but work fine in DVDSP.

    The weird part – the folders open fine when the window is small so the problem only appears when the window is around half screen or more

  • Simon Carlson-thies

    July 1, 2006 at 3:36 pm

    It sounds to me like a corrupt set of files in the folder or the folder may be corrupt… I would boot off the install disc and verify your disc make sure there is no data corruption…

    Simon Carlson-Thies,
    Digital Light Graphics And Animation

  • Peter Ralph

    July 3, 2006 at 8:27 pm

    its the m2vs for sure everything else checks out fine.

    thanks for the response

  • George

    July 5, 2006 at 6:31 pm

    I’ve got a similar problem with M2V files in general. For some reason, the OS doesn’t seem to like them. Anytime I try to rename them, or get info, the finder window crashes and I have to relaunch. Very frustrating. This is on OSX v 10.3.9

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