Finder can't sit still!

So I cann't have my laptop open for more than 15 minutes before it gets amazingly hot. It only happened once in a while, now it's all the time. Then I noticed when I play a movie, it switches to the finder whenever there's a chapter change. So I open up Activity Monitor and the Finder is using the cpu like it can't get enough (102-105 is what it showed in the cpu column). I "sampled" the process and it was all this nonsensical stuff, sometimes indexing, sometimes drawing lines, whatev. I didn't have one single window open at the time btw. Whenever I quit an application, the Finder calms down and stops whatever it's doing. I ran everything in Onyx from fixing permissions to repairing startup disk to maintenance scripts. No effect. So I added a quit function to the Finder's menu and now I launch an app, quit the Finder, and continue working without issue. Weird. Thanks ahead of time for any feedback!

Aha!!!!!
Okay, so in the Finder's View options, I had "Show item info" checked so I could see how many items each desktop folder held...
Wrong thing to do in Leopard I guess!
I unchecked it and everything went back to normal. I tested this by checked the box once again and moving all the desktop folders to a different location (and the Finder didn't freak out again).
Something in those folders was paranoid and didn't want it's info shown apparently. Whatev, problem solved.

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i have been exporting lightroom web galleries to my iweb site without any problem. Suddenly I get the error message "finder can't complete the operation because some data can't be read or written" - error code -36 - and the move to the sites folder on my idisk fails..... thoughts?

Try this community: MobileMe on my Mac: MobileMe: Apple Support Communities.
And you can continue to use iWeb for some time to come. The following will explain:
It's now confirmed that iWeb and iDVD have been discontinued by Apple. This is evidenced by the fact that new Macs are shipping with iLife 11 installed but without iWeb and iDVD.
On June 30, 2012 MobileMe will be shutdown. HOWEVER, iWeb will still continue to work but without the following:
Features No Longer Available Once MobileMe is Discontinued:
◼ Password protection
◼ Blog and photo comments
◼ Blog search
◼ Hit counter
◼ MobileMe Gallery
All of these features can be replaced with 3rd party options.
I found that if I published my site to a folder on my hard drive and then uploaded with a 3rd party FTP client subscriptions to slideshows and the RSS feed were broken. If I published directly from iWeb to the FPT server those two features continued to work correctly.
There's another problem and that's with iWeb's popup slideshows. Once the MMe servers are no longer online the popup slideshow buttons will not display their images.
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However, Roddy McKay and I have figured out a way to modify existing sites with those slideshows and iWeb itself so that those images will display as expected once MobileMe servers are gone. How to is described in this tutorial: #26 - How to Modify iWeb So Popup Slideshows Will Work After MobileMe is Discontinued.
In addition the iLife suite of applications offered on disc is now a discontinued product and the remaining supported iApps will only be available thru the App Store from now on.
HOWEVER, the iLife 11 boxed version that is still currently available at the online Apple Store (Store button at the top of the page) and those copies still on the shelves of retailers will include iWeb and iDVD.

I recently changed my Apple ID to a new email address. My old one still is in my phone, and cannot be permanently deleted as it says that Find my iPhone is still on. I can't turn it off because I do not have the password to my old "deleted" Apple ID.

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I have the EXACT SAME PROBLEM and have been researching the past 2 hours!!!! Aaargh!

Iphone is dead, gone to insurance co. for replacement. They say because "Find My iPhone" is still active, they can't replace or try to fix it. problem is can't log in to de-activate it, cos email account does not exist anymore. How can I de-activate it?

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You never used your iPhone?
You never logged into iTunes?
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-> Find your Apple ID

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Yea,
I bought an original CRT iMac two day's before they were launched, which got the reseller into trouble, and had it replaced by APPLE.
This was a great learning process for me dealing with the glitches. :-)
I LOVE MAC. Now own 4 and on my 10th. in 15 years + 7 bought for family.
Cheers,
Tom

I published a website using iWeb. I began using iWeb to create a second site and now I can't find my original site's work on my Mac.

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If you're publishing directly from iWeb 3 to your FTP server then you'll have the following in your accounts root directory:
Site 1 folder
Site 2 folder
Site 3 folder
index.html file from last published site directling to the last published site.
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The url to sites 2 and 3 will be:
http://doman_name.com/Site 2
http://doman_name.com/Site 3
OT

I had the "find my iphone" app and deleted it and then my ipod was stolen. can my ipod still be located ?

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Thank You! Solved my problem. Have a great week.

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What plan you have???
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My iCal is driving me nuts.
It won't sit still when I am looking at my calender. I try holding it still with one finger, two fingers and it just moves. It jumps to random dates and I have no confidence in it any longer. I use my calendar all the time and this just isn't good enough.
I have gone into the apple store and they said they hadn't seen that before. It did it while I was there. They restored the phone and it didn't make any difference.
I have turned the calendar off in settings - mail - icloud - deleted and then turned back on again. It didn't help.
I put the Google Calendar app on in the hopes I would have a calendar that wouldn't frustrate me and it is so slow in responding, I have deleted it.
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I figured out how to fix the flashing yellow screen problem that I've been having on my MBP! Yessssss!!!
I found this super handy website with the golden answer: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
I followed the instructions on this page and here's what I did:
Resetting NVRAM / PRAM
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Finder can not find and display certain files. Why? Any fix,please?

I've discovered to my surprise that Finder can not find and display certain files. Computer is Mac book OS X (10.6.8)
No matter what Finder settings I use, there are files which it can not detect and display.
Here are just some examples of files sitting in the HD but Finder can not display them:
Located in preference panes :
fibre channel 1.7
Located in :    /Library/StartupItems/BRESINKx86Monitoring
BRESINKx86Monitoring
FxLicenseManager
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EAP8021X
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The questions:
What to make of this inability of Finder to ,well, find? (again - I tried all possible settings of Finder!)
Is there any way to fix it?
Thanks for any competent suggestion!

Well, guys,
Interesting suggestions but the problem remains -Finder (aka Spotlight) is not capable to find certain files.Period.
I consider it as a fault of the system because in comparison, a search facility of a plain Windows based machine is capable to dig out and display any file, no matter now deeply hidden...
As far as the suggestion above by softwater goes , well, I've used the additional foptions extensively and nothing produced the result needed -that's why I created this discussion.
If someone still believes that using Finder with all its options is good enough, here is a test for you to perform on your own Mac:
-Open /Library/StartupItems/ and have a look inside - most likely you have a bunch of items. Write down the names of one or two of them. For this test I've chosen
FxLicenseManager located in    /Library/StartupItems/. You can use any file you want grom this location...
- Then go to Finder and set it to display everything in Library of the HD. Remember - for this test you pretend you don't know any file name in this folders.
If the Finder works properly it shall display folders of Library >Startup items with all stuff inside, including the FxLicenseManager file I used for this test.
Finder displayed nothing. It is obvious that for Finder, certain locations are off limits. That's why I consider Finder as a faulty.
Of course if someone can set the Finder's options to do the above search and succeed, I'll be glad to try ...:-)
At this point, what I gather from this discussion is that :
1. Finder (Spotlight) feature is not to be trusted,despite number of fancy but rather useless options.
2. If you need to really find everything usually not displayed by Finder you better get real searching software.

Deleted site, still appears in SCCM 2012 console status: deleting...

Hi i recently encountered a problem after deleting a secondary site, but it seems to happen only under my user account on the primary site console, here's the thing
I deleted the site, and the log shows that the site was succesfully deleted, i connected to the server and the logs are ok, and the registry no longer has any SMS keys left to delete, and in programs files, both the configuration manager files, and the sql
files were also deleted/uninstalled correctly, but in my console, the site still appears as Deleting...
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I checked on both my colleagues, and they don't see the site anywhere, just me under my user account connected to the primary site
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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg712320.aspx
Re-Using Site Codes
<content xmlns="http://ddue.schemas.microsoft.com/authoring/2003/5">Site codes cannot be used more than one time in a Configuration Manager hierarchy for a central administration site or primary sites. If you reuse a site code, you run the risk of having
object ID conflicts in your Configuration Manager hierarchy. You can reuse the site code for a secondary site if it is no longer in use in your Configuration Manager hierarchy or in the Active Directory forest.</content>
Have you deleted from AD Container ? did you cheked the hman.log ? is the replication ok?
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