Re: This myth no longer needs debunking

From	Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: This myth no longer needs debunking
Date	2013-10-30 09:38 +1300
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Message-ID	<301020130938025709%YourName@YourISP.com> (permalink)
References	<l4onm0$82a$2@dont-email.me> <slrnl703df.e4s.mr@irc.sandman.net>

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In article <slrnl703df.e4s.mr@irc.sandman.net>, Sandman
<mr@sandman.net> wrote:
> In article <l4onm0$82a$2@dont-email.me>, Wes Groleau
> <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> wrote:
> > 
> >  Over the years, someone occasionally posts that having a lot of icons on 
> >  your desktop slows down the machine.
> > 
> >  I always countered that I have trouble squeezing in one more and yet my 
> >  machine runs fine.
> > 
> >  Well, some of you will be happy to know that Apple seems to have sided 
> >  with you.  Now that I have 10.9, my regular account takes ages to be 
> >  ready to go.  But my admin account (ten icons) comes up instantly.
> 
> The desktop is just another folder, and its icons are treated the same way. 
> If one of the icons are, for instance, an image file as an alias to a 
> remote server or an external drive, displaying that icon preview (thumbnail 
> image) may take a while becuase it has to spin up the drive or mount the 
> server. There can be other reasons as well.
> 
> OSX 10.9, as all versions before it, can handle more files in a folder than 
> your desktop could ever handle.
> 
> Turn off icon preview for the desktop (click on desktop, cmd-J and uncheck 
> file preview and show item info) and see if that makes a difference. If it 
> does, then my above suspicion may just be correct. If not, then I'd still 
> say it's something else than just the sheer number of icons you have on the 
> desktop.

Not quite true.

The Desktop *is* just another folder in terms of storage, but in terms
of displaying the content it is different. The content of any other
folder is displayed in a window, whereas the content of the Desktop is
displayed directly in the Finder.

I don't know how true it is, but I have read in various places that
each icon on the desktop is supposedly treated in a similar way to an
individual window by Mac OS X - LOTS of icons and / or open windows
will cause the computer to be slow.

Then again, I do know someone I help who has their Desktop filled to
over-flowing with files (to the point of them piling on top of each
other making it difficult to find anything!) on her 10.6 iMac, but it
never seems to be slow when I use it.

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This myth no longer needs debunking Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-10-29 12:27 -0400
  Re: This myth no longer needs debunking Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-10-29 19:27 +0000
    Re: This myth no longer needs debunking nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-10-29 16:01 -0400
    Re: This myth no longer needs debunking Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-10-30 09:38 +1300
      Re: This myth no longer needs debunking Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-10-29 20:50 +0000
        Re: This myth no longer needs debunking nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-10-29 16:58 -0400
        Re: This myth no longer needs debunking Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-10-30 19:51 +1300
          Re: This myth no longer needs debunking Siri Cruz <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2013-10-30 00:24 -0700
            Re: This myth no longer needs debunking Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-10-30 08:40 +0000
              Re: This myth no longer needs debunking Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-10-31 09:33 +1300
                Re: This myth no longer needs debunking Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-10-30 21:07 +0000
                Re: This myth no longer needs debunking Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-10-31 13:34 +1300
                Re: This myth no longer needs debunking Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-10-31 08:36 +0000
          Re: This myth no longer needs debunking Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-10-30 08:38 +0000
            Re: This myth no longer needs debunking Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-10-30 09:25 -0400
              Re: This myth no longer needs debunking Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-10-30 19:58 -0400
              Re: This myth no longer needs debunking Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-10-31 13:29 +1300
                Re: This myth no longer needs debunking Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-10-31 00:10 -0400
                Re: This myth no longer needs debunking Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-10-31 18:39 +1300
            Re: This myth no longer needs debunking Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-10-31 13:26 +1300
              Re: This myth no longer needs debunking nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-10-31 03:02 -0400
                Re: This myth no longer needs debunking Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-10-31 09:30 -0400
                Re: This myth no longer needs debunking nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-10-31 15:36 -0400
                Re: This myth no longer needs debunking Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-10-31 15:47 -0400
                Re: This myth no longer needs debunking nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-10-31 16:17 -0400
              Re: This myth no longer needs debunking Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-10-31 08:35 +0000
                Re: This myth no longer needs debunking Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-10-31 09:35 -0400
                Re: This myth no longer needs debunking Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-10-31 14:38 +0000
                Re: This myth no longer needs debunking Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-10-31 13:37 -0400
                Re: This myth no longer needs debunking Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-10-31 18:03 +0000
        Re: This myth no longer needs debunking Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-10-30 12:50 +0000
          Re: This myth no longer needs debunking nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-10-30 11:38 -0400
    Re: This myth no longer needs debunking Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-10-29 17:41 -0400
  Re: This myth no longer needs debunking billy@MIX.COM - 2013-10-29 20:18 +0000
    Re: This myth no longer needs debunking Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-10-29 17:44 -0400
  Re: This myth no longer needs debunking Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-10-30 12:48 +0000
    Re: This myth no longer needs debunking Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-10-30 09:36 -0400

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