Mac OS 9: Slow Finder Performance After Sleep When No Zip Disk Is Inserted

  • Last Modified: September 02, 2008
  • Article: TS2202
  • Old Article: 106742

Symptoms

The Mac OS 9 Finder can be slow when there is no Zip disk in the internal Zip drive of Power Macintosh G3 and Power Mac G4 computers. This can occur after waking the computer from sleep.

After waking from sleep, Finder performance is slow when no Zip Disk is inserted in internal Zip drive.

Note: "Sleep" refers to full sleep mode. Display sleep mode should not contribute to this issue.

Products Affected

Power Mac G4 (QuickSilver 2002), Power Mac G4 (Digital Audio), Power Mac G3 Minitower, Power Mac G4 (QuickSilver), Power Mac G4 (Gigabit Ethernet), Power Mac G4 (PCI Graphics), Power Mac G4 (AGP Graphics)

Resolution

These solutions and workarounds should help:

  • Leave a Zip disk in the drive
  • Restart when the issue occurs
  • Use a USB-based Zip drive instead
  • Upgrade to Mac OS X

 

The Mac OS 9 Zip driver can cause the Finder to perform slowly when there is no Zip disk in the internal Zip drive.

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