Finder Crashes when copying lots of files. Any help?

airweasel45airweasel45
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in macOS edited January 2014
I'm using 10.2.4, but I've had this before the update. When copying several 100 jpgs from folder to folder or to another hard drive, the finder crashes and relaunches itself, leaving me with several hundred zero kb jpgs on the destination folder. It seems to happen on an irregular basis. Anyone else encounter this?



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  • Reply 1 of 6
    mount_my_floppymount_my_floppy Posts: 913member
    Atleast you still have your drag and drop feature... I dont know what happend to mine.
  • Reply 2 of 6
    g3joelg3joel Posts: 29member
    When I try to trash a lot of files at once, my Finder just hangs with the beachball spinning endlessly.
  • Reply 3 of 6
    airweasel45airweasel45 Posts: 42member
    &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;When I try to trash a lot of files at once, my Finder just hangs with the beachball spinning endlessly&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;





    This is actually the same thing mine does, but I think its a normal function. It seems like the Finder performs a copy, cut and paste on when moving files. Its almost like its copying all the files to the clipboard, then pasting them to the trash or wherever else you may be trying to copy them too. I kept relaunching my Finder when it did that, but it seemed to interfere with the function so I began waiting it out.
  • Reply 4 of 6
    rara Posts: 623member
    Not a solution I know (just another, better method), but you should learn the Terminal. It's quite powerful, for instance:



    cp *.jpg ~/Pictures



    will copy all jpeg files from the current directory to my Pictures folder. The best part is it won't hang the Finder and you can open a new Terminal window or send the process to the background if you want to do something else.



    Search through some of the OS X sites and you can learn some of the basic Unix commands fairly easily.
  • Reply 5 of 6
    g3joelg3joel Posts: 29member
    Yep I know all of the commands for moving, copying, etc., but when I have the Finder window open in front of me it's just a lot easier to do it via the GUI - even if I have to relaunch the Finder afterwards.
  • Reply 6 of 6
    dfilerdfiler Posts: 3,420member
    For what its worth:



    Your beachball will be much shorter if the folder being dragged from is in column view. List view will make this operation take an order of magnitude more time.
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