Why is Path Finder giving up?

[Anonymous]

After about 2 hrs of using Path Finder, it seems to give up. I can click on the items in my shelf or toolbar and they highlight, but nothing opens and I have to quit and restart. Is this a common problem? I've tried reinstalling, but nothing has worked.

[candiazoo]

That has never happened to me. What kind of background applications (or foreground apps for that matter) running when this happens?

Mike

[Anonymous]

QuarkXPress, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, ICQ, Camino, Entourage, iTunes, Suitcase X1. Those are the ones that are always on.

[Steve Gehrman]

I'm not sure what is happening. I haven't heard of this before.

I'll need more information. Do what you can to help track it down and find more clues.

Thanks.

[Anonymous]

This may not be a PathFinder problem. I experience this periodically, and I have another friend who does not use PF; he has the same problem. Both of us upgraded to 10.3, then had these problems. There are a couple of ways around this: I have enabled Full Keyboard Access, so whenever the UI freezes up, I activate the menu bar and shut down all my apps in an orderly way, they go to Terminal and type

"sudo killall -HUP WindowServer"

That brings everything back to whatever normal is for 10.3

Recently, I have found that clicking the built-in button (I have a Pismo Powerbook) resets something in the driver software, and my mouse starts working again.

[Anonymous]

I'm running 10.2.8. It started when I upgraded to PF 3.0.1. The toolbar also loses function with all buttons dimmed until I quit and restart PF.

[neilio]

Have you tried repairing permissions? Are you running out of disk space, possibly?

There has to be some kind of system problem as I've never seen this in over a year of PF usage. It really does sound like something on your system isn't working properly.

[Anonymous]

I last repaired permissions after installing 10.2.8 a couple of weeks ago, but I'll give that another shot. Disk space is fine at 32.7 GB free, 768 MB RAM - 867DP G4. Path Finder seems to be the only app "acting up". I have also noticed that when I give the New Folder command, the sheet comes down, but is kind of frozen for about 10-20 seconds, during which I can't enter any text. Is this just me as well?

[Anonymous]

After repairing permissions, the oddities of the New Folder command have ceased. I can only assume that that was a major factor in the problems I've been having. I hope. Thanks for the help.