Hi Martin, do you mean your slow launch problem is that it takes around 3 seconds for it to launch? I guess that's a little slower than "instant", but kind of not all that slow in the whole scheme of things. When you were referring to slow launch time I thought you meant something like a minute or so to launch, not just 3 seconds... If you want to speed up that 3 second launch time it maybe you could upgrade your system to have a SSD drive if you do not already.

I don't know what I can do about the slow file dialog problem, especially if it happens in other apps too. I don't think that's supposed to be normal though... Do you maybe have a whole lot of files in the directory that it opens up on to?

Looking a bit on the web I can see some others have had similar problems:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/12356893#12356893
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5495797?start=0&tstart=0
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5492808?start=15&tstart=0

There are some tips in those discussions you could try - some people mentioned that a failing hard drive or some kind of drive corruption might cause that. If you have some external USB hard drives maybe try unplugging those and see if things behave better.

- Michael

A trick from the French guy Pabra
Not a total resolve but...
About the dialog Box
It's a problem of refreshing - filling of the dialog box!
Moi has not the time to explore directories and stock them in memory!

So (in any view of Moi ) open one time the file menu Export
the Dialog box apears disapears
then it's the trick (in any view of Moi )
move the mouse over the selected object
right click on it and the Dialog box apears disapears, after 3 - 4 times of this view "right click method"
it's becoming stable because directories are now checked and input the memory!
Not very practicle but that works and you can now import, export etc..

There is maybe a file system who manage tempo of the dialog boxes on MAC?

Good morning Michael ...

>> Hi Martin, do you mean your slow launch problem is that it takes around 3 seconds for it to launch? I guess that's a little slower than "instant", but kind of not all that slow in the whole scheme of things. When you were referring to slow launch time I thought you meant something like a minute or so to launch, not just 3 seconds... If you want to speed up that 3 second launch time it maybe you could upgrade your system to have a SSD drive if you do not already. <<

I am not worried about a 3 second launch time, what i was trying to get across was that after removing XQuartz, MoI on first launch took quiet some time before it was displayed. which is fine and understandable. Every launch there-after is a lot quicker, with MoI appearing in something like 3 seconds on a standard SATA drive. I have looked into the SSD side of things but read that they are great to start with but soon slow down after a while although I am liking the PCIe which have capacities that a lot more interesting but the storage per buck is very off putting.>> I don't know what I can do about the slow file dialog problem, especially if it happens in other apps too. I don't think that's supposed to be normal though... Do you maybe have a whole lot of files in the directory that it opens up on to? <<

There's nothing you can do about that issue Michael, it's not a MoI thing, like i said it happens with any app, other than Finder, which suggests it might be using old QT elements or something that have now been dropped, it's annoying, but not devastating and does not stop the work from being completed.

From the links provided https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5495797?start=30&tstart=0 this one has the fix .... Many thanks. As i thought Apple problem nothing else, lol. The price we pay for being early adopters, you take the bugs that have not been properly ironed out.

Many thanks Michael - Another brownie point for you, you really do offer a level of support above and beyond what is your responsibility, simply amazing!!

Martin Spencer-Ford

Hi Martin, I'm glad that you found a fix for the slow file dialog problem!

It sounds like the problem did have something to do with things trying to access network shares, maybe even if you had not specifically set that up yourself.


@Pilou - you might tell Pabra about that same thing:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5495797?start=30&tstart=0

maybe the same fix will help him as well.

- Michael

It's a programming or scripting goof by an Apple developer. There is no network here, single stand alone PC. It's just been setup to look for networked drives/services by default but then doesn't alter the state if it does not find any. What's really bad with this is that Apple must have known about this issue during beta testing phase or RC stage and have not fixed it. Here's looking forward to 10.9.1 or maybe one more - lol. I am just grateful your diligence to customer support found me a fix, it's an early Christmas pressie for me, so thank you again.

Martin Spencer-Ford