Why is emptying trash so slow in Snow Leopard??

Why is emptying trash so slow in Snow Leopard!?
t

Have you just upgraded by the sound of it? Snow Leopard's trash is fine here.
Check to see if your Finder Preferences > Advanced tab has Empty Trash securely selected. That will slow things down. If so, deselect it to speed things up.

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Why is emptying trash so slow? Is there a way to make it faster?

I am trying to clean up my external hard drives, by moving things to trash. There are several several items, but this is A MacBook PRO and I thought emptying trash would be a fast process. It's taken about 24 hours to delete roughly 200 items. Is there a faster way to delete stuff?

Relaunch the Finder, then from the Finder menu bar, select
Finder ▹ Preferences... ▹ Advanced
and uncheck the box marked
Empty Trash securely
Try again to empty the Trash.

Why is Mac OS X 10.7 so much slower than Snow Leopard? It isnt smooth, applications are slow and most dont respond, and dowloads take hours, minutes.

Why is Mac OS X 10.7 so much slower than Snow Leopard? It isnt smooth, applications are slow and most dont respond, and dowloads take hours, not minutes.

Something is seriously wrong with your installation or you are critically low on RAM, like below 2 GB.
How much RAM is in your machine?
Have you tried a Recovery?

Why doesn't LightScribe work with my Snow Leopard?

Why doesn't LightScribe work with my Snow Leopard? It downloaded and is in my printer folder, but won't open.

Are you really still running 10.6.3? If you are you should run the combo update as many issues were resolved within the updates themselves.
Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1

Why did I pay £25.00 for snow leopard

Why did I pay £25.00 for snow leopard?
Ive installed it and have noticed no difference.............have you?
Jeff

That's a point fo confusion.
If your MacBook has a Core 2 Duo processor (64-bit) and not the earlier Core Duo processor (32-bit), you can run 64-bit versions of Apple's applications. Whether the speed improvements are mostly because of this "64-bit'ness" or mostly because Apple re-coded the bundled apps (such as the all-important Finder) to be more efficient, I'm not so sure. Apple did optimize their code to reduce bloat, and it is supposedly a lot more than just removing the PowerPC code. This article has a good high level explanation.
http://www.macworld.com/article/142379/2009/08/snowleopard_64bit.html
The other layer for 32 versus 64-bit discussion is in the core of the OS itself, the kernel. Apple seems to be playing it safe initially, and all Macs (except for Xserve servers) are running the 32-bit kernel by default. This may be to ensure third-party software compatibility during the transition to 64-bit. The more recent Macs are capable of switching to the 64-bit kernel on startup. Older Core 2 Duo Macs (that can run 64-bit apps) cannot use the 64-bit kernel. This web page (with related utility) has a good consolidate explanation, although I cannot confirm everything is 100% accurate.
http://www.ahatfullofsky.comuv.com/English/Programs/SMS/SMS.html
So there are really two levels. 64-bit applications and the 64-bit kernel. 64-bit apps can run with the 32-bit kernel just fine, as long as your iMac has Core 2 Duo processors. I'm just going to keep things +as is+, and not worry about it. Snow Leopard is running great, and that's good enough for me no matter what part is 64-bit and what part is not.

Why does emptied trash still leave 400+ files?

Why does my empty trash (all, including locked) still leave 400+ files in there untouched? Even after multiple attempts?
What do do? (How to empty?)
Thanks.
~Norm

Hi norman from akron,
Sorry to hear you are having trouble emptying the contents of your trash.
The article below may provide some troubleshooting steps for your issue.
Always backup your computer via Time Machine before troubleshooting issues like this.
You can't empty the Trash or move a file to the Trash
I hope this information helps ...
- Judy

Why does empty trash automatically Secure Empty Trash?

Hi
Ive searched many forums but cant find an answer.
Whenever I empty my trash (running latest Snow Leopard), it automatically secure empties it. I dont want this as it takes too long (I know its more secure etc) however I am time poor and really need to just empty trash normally!
Any ideas would be most welcome!
Thanks

Choose Preferences from the Finder menu, click on Advanced, and turn it off.
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Secure empty trash very slow

Are there suggestions for speeding up Secure Empty Trash?

I got a tip from a Genius at the Green Hills (Nashville) Apple Support Bar today on how to instantly empty the Trash folder. This comes with a big warning/disclaimer: you will not be prompted about any of the action to delete the contents of your Trash as this sequence of steps force deletes all trash. In other words, there's no turning back. I did this after facing 8 hours of a trash emptying cycle to get rid of 280,000 files...
Here it is: while simultaneosly holding down Command + Option keys, press Shift and then press Delete (all four, in that order).
It works - it's instant! But be sure you want to take this action.

Empty Trash extremely slow

Lots of Fan noise and slowly counting down while emptying trash. We're talking one item per second here. Not good if you wanna flush 1600 items (used to take 1 sec in total).
This is a clean install of 10.6. I did that because of the same problem after updating 10.5 to 10.6.
Any 'fix' known?

Try using the terminal. Go to
~.Trash
and use the "rm" command, e.g., >> rm *
if that does work see >> man rm
for details using the "rm" command
rm -rf *
cures most any issues with the quickness.
I hope this helps.

Emptying Trash extremely slow

I have to wait hours and still the Trash is not emptied
Then I restart the computer. But it would not help
The Trash cannot be emptied.

Relaunch the Finder, then from the Finder menu bar, select
Finder ▹ Preferences... ▹ Advanced
and uncheck the box marked
Empty Trash securely
Try again to empty the Trash.

Why is my Photoshop CS4 crashing with Snow Leopard!?

IN an attempt to make my machine work faster, an employee at the apple store said I should upgrade to snow leopard and get more RAM.
Snow Leopard upgrade--done. version 10.6.2
RAM--ordered 2 more gigs from crucial, not installed yet.
Hardware:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac8,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 3.06 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version: IM81.00C1.B00
SMC Version (system): 1.30f1
Software:
Photoshop CS4 11.0.1
Since the upgrade I have had crash after crash in photoshop and bridge. Other times PS freezes and I have to force quit. My tools don't work properly. The crashes happen so often and it is hard to tell what/ if any particular sequence of events make it occur. I can only work in PS for a few minutes before a crash occurs anywhere between 0 and 12 minutes usually. (inconvenient because i am a wedding album designer, PS is my only way to do my job.)
A few examples of frequent problems are:
--my free transform tool gives an error saying it can't perform because of a program error.
--my key shortcuts become unresponsive when trying to use them to change between tools, especially when using the zoom tool or the brushes
--marquis tool doesn't show up when i make a selection
--images do not open when i drag or double click them from bridge to PS
--after saving and closing an image PS becomes unresponsive and requires a force quit
--my latest crash was PS just quit with no warning, everything disappeared and the crash report appeared, I had just hit command+s to save when it happened.
Things I have done to attempt to fix:
--ran all updates that are posted on adobe and apple for both products.
--font management: FontExplorerXPro cleaned all but essential system fonts from the directories and cleaned font cashes in every place I knew to look for them
--i do not have the menlo font
--uninstalled all Adobe products (unregistered, deleted preference files, used Appzapper, and then used the adobe uninstaller, then all remaining folders from adobe were thrown away and trash emptied, computer rebooted.) **this is just the most recent attempt at uninstall and reinstall, the first time i just used the adobe uninstaller which clearly did not actually remove the program and all files. annoying. regardless, after each reinstall, the problems continued as if nothing had been done.
--i do not use 3rd party plug-ins to my knowledge (how would I know? could these be installed without me intentionally doing it?
I have attached my most recent crash report to this.
i need this to work. this machine and program were far too expensive to be making my life this miserable. Especially when the upgrade was recommended by apple. and adobe's site had no major issues to report about snow leopard. the fact that work that should have taken 4 hours has taken me about 2 days to accomplish between crashes is a rather major issue to me. as is the fact that i have a $3000 piece of equipment on my desk that is virtually worthless right now.
please help!

you have just worked a miracle in my life. I did all of the suggestions this morning. So far, so good, been running PS and bridge for 4 hours without a crash. tools also seem to be working correctly. i don't want to get too excited yet, but you might be my new favorite person in the world!
No, I didn't install rosetta with 10.6, at least not on purpose. Best guess is that I had enabled rosetta to fix an issue i was having with PS3 last year, but I had forgotten how to turn it off and on. I have been looking for that switch for days! Thank you for pointing me in the right direction for that. I had hoped that my attempts at uninstalling and reinstalling the CS would set everything back to default, but it didn't stop it from running in rosetta. Rosetta is now off in PS and in the font manager.
I don't know about the PCC code thing, where do I find that information? What does it mean? I did change a few things in my PS preferences concerning the GPU settings because there was some speculation on other threads that the video card was causing crashs. But I think I set that back to normal (enable open GL Drawings). I don't know if the things I changed concerning that might have something to do with the PCC code stuff?
I think the com.adobe.Photoshop.plist file in the user/library/preference folder might have been the golden ticket. when i opened that preference folder there were all kinds of things from my old PS3 in there too. I dumped all of those and rebooted. I have been wondering why after repeated uninstalls PS4 still had seemed to remember stuff from previous installations and also from my old PS3. (which I thought I had completely uninstalled prior to installing the creative suite 4--it was not an upgrade). it annoyed to say the least that it retained memory of the old programs. Now I wonder what else might need dumped out of that folder. Should I be checking that folder for particular things periodically?
When you say clean all caches, where do I find them? the font manager cleans the font caches, but other than that, I don't know where to look for other caches or how to actually clean them out.
Thank you so much for answering my questions/frustration. You have saved my sanity--and my computer from taking a two story plunge to the pavement. you're awesome!

Airport slowness with snow leopard

Anyone else noticing this? I've got my airport station in the other room with an airport express in the same room as the computer to extend the range. With just leopard, all the pages were coming up quickly, even java chat rooms were coming up very fast... no problems. Then I installed snow leopard and it just seem's more sluggish to load some pages. Like the apple main page that now takes longer to load. Some pages still load fast but I can tell a difference between leopard and snow L. via wifi... anyone else having this problem? Is there a way to the pages loading faster?

HI John and Welcome to Apple Discussions...
Then I installed snow leopard and it just seem's more sluggish to load some pages. Like the apple main page that now takes longer to load
May not be your wi fi causing the problem. If you are using Safari to browser the internet, try the following.
From the Safari Menu Bar, click Safari / Empty Cache. When you are done with that...
From the Safari Menu Bar, click Safari / Reset Safari. Select the top 5 buttons and click Reset.
Go here for trouble shooting 3rd party plugins or input managers which might be causing the problem.
Safari: Add-ons may cause Safari to unexpectedly quit or have performance issues
Since you are running Snow Leopard, make sure Safari is opening in 32-bit mode, not 64. Right or control click the Safari icon in the Applications folder, then click: Get Info In the Get Info window click the black disclosure triangle next to General so it faces down. Select 32 bit mode. Also, (in that same window) make sure Safari is NOT running in Rosetta.
  Web pages now include a small icon or 'favicon' which is visible in the address bar and next to bookmarks. These icons take up disk space and slow Safari down. It is possible to erase the icons from your computer and start fresh. *To delete Safari's icon cache using the Finder, open your user folder, navigate to ~/Library/Safari/ and move this file "webpageIcons.db to the Trash.*
If Safari is sitll slow, go to the Safari Menu Bar, click Safari/Preferences. Make note of all the preferences under each tab. Quit Safari. Now go to ~/Library/Preferences and move this file com.apple.safari.plist to the Desktop. Relaunch Safari. If it's a successful launch, then that .plist file needs to be moved to the Trash.
Another thing to try is changing your Airport Channel.
Open AirPort Utility, located in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder on a computer using Mac OS X.
Select the device you’re setting up, and then click Manual Setup. Enter the base station password if necessary
Click AirPort in the toolbar, and then click Wireless.
Choose a new channel from the Channel pop-up menu.
Click: Update
Quit Airport Utility
Carolyn

Trash basket size in Snow Leopard

I have two Mac Book Pros - one a late first generation model and the second a first generation unibody. Both have 10.6.1 installed on them. I have two other desktop Mac systems with 10.6.1 but they are not affected by the problem I describe below.
Since installing 10.6 and then 10.6.1 I've noticed that whenever I go to empty the trash (simple empty, not secure), the number of files in the trash is exponentially more than what the trash folder shows. For example, today it showed 2 files in the folder/basket and when I emptied it, it deleted 751 files. Other times I've had 5 or 6 files in the basket/folder and the delete involved thousands of files. Since this happens only on the Mac Book Pros, I don't quite get what is going on here. This never occurred under any iteration of Leopard and it doesn't occur on desktops with Snow Leopard installed. Both Mac Book Pros have large hard drives with at least 70% free space on each.
Thoughts, suggestions, observations?

What makes this question curious and befuddling is that this issue ONLY arises on my MacBook Pros, not on my iMac, my MacBook Black, or my Mac Pro. When the trash basket says it has 3 files, it has three files. On the MBPs under Snow Leopard, the number of files reported in the trash basket bear no relationship to the actual number of files. This morning (just a half an hour ago), I was using my Unibody Mac Book Pro. It said I had 4 files in my trash basket. Being the compulsive type who doesn't like clutter, I went to delete them. When the basket started to empty, it told me THEN that it had 3951 files to empty. It took nearly 20 minutes to empty and got the machine so hot that the fans started up full blast. From a full battery, it took me down to 0:35. The moment the trash was emptied, the battery indicator literally jumped to 2:05 and the heat dissipated quickly. While it is emptying trash, it is using up many cycles of CPU and the machine slows to a halt. This occurs on a 2.6 GHz Core 2 and a 2.8 GHz Unibody. It occurs on no other machines, suggesting it is an SL/MBP interaction. I can't figure out what is going on. I can't even get a listing of what is in the trash basket except for the listed files.
If this happened only once or twice after the SL upgrade, I wouldn't be concerned about it, but it happens every time I use either machine, which is often.
Anyone have an alternative explanation of what is going on and how to prevent it?

Network connection extremely slow after snow leopard upgrade

I should first state that my son's new Intel Mac Mini (2009 model) is working fine without any issues - it is on the "n" band. My wife's macbook (on Leopard) and my Thinkpad are continuing to work fine - both connecting to the "g" band of my Simultaneous Dual band AEBS.
On my 2008 model mac mini, the installation went thru fine, but the network connection is extremely slow - it is connecting using the "g" band. Even when I launch the Airport utility, it takes a while to locate the AEBS and then when I click on "Manual Setup", it takes a very very long time to read the configuration. This tells me that the airport interface on the mac mini has some driver issue.
I tried all the suggestions given in other threads (listed below), but none of them worked.
1. Created a new network location and rebooted
2. Trashed the com.apple.airport.airportutility.plist and rebooted
3. Rebooted countless number of times - illogical, but that kicks in when I can't find a solution.
It is past midnight here (20miles from Apple headquarter). Going to wait for another 30minutes. After that, I will use SuperDuper to install my Leopard back on my mac mini which I had cloned before starting the installation.
Appreciate any suggestions - I am open to any prayer solution as well! If not, the Snow Leopard family pack is going back to the Apple store on Monday.
Just saw at engadget: "On a 17-inch unibody we were putting through the paces, the WiFi inexplicably has gone out and we have yet to get it working again."
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Some more info about my setup:
*Simultaneous Dual band AEBS:*
Radio Mode: 802.11n only (5 GHz) - 802.11b/g
Radio Channel Selection: Manual - 161 (5GHz), 6(2.4GHz)
*Airport Express:*
Wireless mode: Extend a wireless network
Allow wireless clients checked under the name of the network (same as for AEBS).
Both are WPA/WPA2 Personal security. And both the routers were upgraded to 7.4.2 firmware this morning with the hope that it will help.
*N Devices (both working fine):*
Apple TV 40GB
2009 Model Mac Mini upgraded to Snow Leopard - working perfectly.
*G Devices:*
Thinkpad running WinXP
Dell Laptop running WinXP
Acer Netbook running WinXP
iPod Touch
iPhone 3G
Linksys webcam
_All of the above are working fine_.
+2008 model Mac mini -+ upgrade to Snow Leopard shows extremely slow wifi connection that it is unusable. It takes 20min to load apple homepage. When I boot from the clone of my Leopard lying on my external drive, it works perfectly.
I compared the settings between all the tabs of Network-->Airport-->Advanced and they are identical between Snow Leopard and Leopard mode except that SL doesn't have the "Apple Talk" tab.
Appreciate any help to debug this.

Why am I not able to install snow leopard on a new hard drive for my macbook pro, which at one point was upgraded to Lion?

I've just had my hard drive go caput and after purchasing a new one was inclined to install snow leopard but received an error message when attempting to do so.
I did not create a back up or restore file before I decided to upgrade from snow leopard.
I'm wondering why am I not able to simply install snow leopard on a brand new hard drive. What would clue it into me having had ran lion before and why can't I simply delete that kernel or said file. It makes completely no sense to me. I come from a pc world where if I choose to format a hard drive, I can do a clean install of whatever OS I choose. After all I only paid for my laptop as should be able to do with it what I wish.
Any suggestions or insight would be greatly appreciated

1. Was Lion on the machine and trying to downgrade?
2. If so this might be an issue. Newer machines are done for current OSX.
3. If you have Lion on your machine try to install Snow Leopard on another partition or portable HD
4. After you format and install SL on the other partition or drive Try to boot from this machine retarting and holding the Option key at boot up.
5. See if that work.
This is a trial and error way but Mountain Lion is right around the corner and Snow Leopard is 2+ yrs old.
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