OS x 10.9.5 display has mind of its own

[faunika]

Hi. I inherited an old mac book last year. From the beginning the display would act up. Getting larger - super large then small - back and forth rather quickly. Some days i can hardly use it. So theres that. Then last night i was editing pictures using preview, working out of a folder on the desk-top within a finder page. When i was done resizing them and changing the file extensions, specifically by taking a screenshot of a picture with a .png extension so i could turn it into a .jpeg, i then deleted the original. Im sorry that was such an awkward sentence. i did this for about 4 hours and the first hour the was a definite lag that grew into an issue. it was obvious that it was overloaded and stuck on trying to delete a bunch of files. i tried to find it so i could make it stop. Windows has something for that - i couldnt find anything. so the problem involved finder and preview and desk top - and frequently it would say something about "YOUTUBE. And tonight it is dropping letters. i have enclosed 2 reports that

 

[iPodNano3]

Hi. I inherited an old mac book last year. From the beginning the display would act up. Getting larger - super large then small - back and forth rather quickly. Some days i can hardly use it. So theres that. Then last night i was editing pictures using preview, working out of a folder on the desk-top within a finder page. When i was done resizing them and changing the file extensions, specifically by taking a screenshot of a picture with a .png extension so i could turn it into a .jpeg, i then deleted the original. Im sorry that was such an awkward sentence. i did this for about 4 hours and the first hour the was a definite lag that grew into an issue. it was obvious that it was overloaded and stuck on trying to delete a bunch of files. i tried to find it so i could make it stop. Windows has something for that - i couldnt find anything. so the problem involved finder and preview and desk top - and frequently it would say something about "YOUTUBE. And tonight it is dropping letters. i have enclosed 2 reports that

wow its been 5 years
time flies

 

[f54da]

Please don't necro bump old posts if you're not adding anything.

>the first hour the was a definite lag that grew into an issue.
Cumulative lag building up when frequently deleting files from Finder is a Finder bug I think. I have experienced this as well, as well as actually some occasional crashes when deleting that point to somewhere within DesktopServicesPriv. Never been able to reliably reproduce it, but the crash site is consistent and I did verify my ram is good so I'm like pretty sure it's the OS.

Also mixing in quicklook previews or having multiple windows open will increase the lag time. And using a network volume will really lead to lag. I did patch finder a bit to mitigate the worst of it by avoiding view reloads for background windows.

 

[iPodNano3]

Please don't necro bump old posts if you're not adding anything.

why not? im just just having some fun!

 

[f54da]

It is very bad forum etiquette. Dating back to usenet, on any forum which uses a "latest-activity" sort, if you necro old posts without adding anything meaningful, then you are effectively forcing the thread to the top and "taking over" the top spot. Especially on slow forums like the 10.9 subforum which has minimal velocity, bumping a post without meaningful content can thus make it harder for others for determine which threads truly have new content and the thread can remain on top for several weeks or months. If many people do it, you now have a situation where all the necro'ing of old threads with non-substantive posts "buries" more recent content.

Text and image boards have a sage feature to reply to a post without bumping it, which is something that for some reason has not been adopted by traditional forums. And of course threaded, non-linear forums like reddit use a completely different model which is not susceptible to this issue but comes with a different set of tradeoffs.

I do recognize that you or other newer members may not have as much experience with traditional forums (compared to e.g. reddit) which is why I'm bothering to type this out in the first place instead of telling you to rtfm on forum etiquette.)

Basically as a general rule I think one should always try to put effort into any post on a forum, but the older the thread you are replying to is, the more effort you should put in. I.e. it would be fine to make a lazy joke on a thread that has already been bumped and currently occupies top slot, but bumping a 5 year old thread to make a lazy joke is very rude.