Snow Leopard Bug Prevents Opening Groups of Files
TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us —
... of recent threads on Apple's Support Discussion forums - backed up by our own testing - indicate that Snow Leopard suffers from a bug that prevents users from opening multiple recently downloaded files simultaneously. Upon attempting to open a group of downloaded files (that have not been previously opened) only a portion of them open in whatever application owns them; no error message is displayed. If all opened files are then closed, and opened as a group again, one more file will open than on the previous attempt. Each successive attempt to open the same group of files will ...
Snow Leopard: Trouble opening groups of downloaded files
MacFixIt —
... 's Finder that prevents groups of files that have been recently downloaded from being opened at the same time. In a real world scenario this could include downloading multiple images for use in design work or multiple video elements for use in film work, etc. This bug requires users to open each file individually, a limitation that can severely disrupt certain workflows. After testing these reports on my machine, I was not able to reproduce the problem. However, the issues on the forums ( ...
