Why is Trash that damned lame in 10.6 ?

Maybe someone at Apple tells us why Trash has become 100 times slower in 10.6 than before.
For a clean new install i only deleted NeoOffice - that's ONE Application for me.
But Trash shows me to delete over 4.200 items ... and after 5 min of deleting the counter still shows 2.000 to delete...
I have better things to do than watching the little Steve in my intel cpu deleting every file bitwise on my harddisk! So please Apple, get hom some caffeine so he runs faster

Technobilder wrote:
Maybe someone at Apple tells us why Trash has become 100 times slower in 10.6 than before.
For a clean new install i only deleted NeoOffice - that's ONE Application for me.
But Trash shows me to delete over 4.200 items ... and after 5 min of deleting the counter still shows 2.000 to delete...
This is something of a guess, but it sounds like, instead of being a "simple" application, NeoOfficem is actually an application "package" containing, perhaps, 4200 actual files.
I'd just try a little patience.

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