Thanks, G. Good to know that because I will be putting in a server there soon, but right now they are too small and just using shared folders (and sneaker net).

It was the windowserver pref. I put it on the desktop and restarted. Problem gone. Kudos Alternaut and Ganbustein.

BTW, the TM drive attached to that computer was having 'issues' and all the info G had given me was really great. (That's why I was there in the first place. Deleted older backups that were done within hours of each other by adding the delete option to the finder window. Dumped some stuff off the computer itself that wasn't needed, and, it seems like when the TM drive told the user it was full and was deleting older backups, it wasn't deleting but moving them to the trash. When I first got there I went to empty the trash and it started counting hundreds of thousands of files. When I ejected the TM drive the trash emptied quickly.


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Brother MFC-9340CDW Color Laser
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