d60Dave

Q: Slow file open dialogue box

Hi,

 

I upgraded to Mavericks OS over the weekend and everything seems to work ok. The only thing I have noticed is that my when I try to attach a file in Mail the dialogue box opens and where previously files would immediately appear they now take several seconds, maybe as long as five, ten seconds.

 

I think I've noticed similar behaviour in other applications but Mail is the one I use the most in this way.

 

Has anyone else experienced this since upgrading to Mavericks?

 

 

Regards and thanks,

 

Dave.

MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Oct 28, 2013 6:03 AM

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  • by sdipietr,

    sdipietr sdipietr Mar 1, 2015 5:30 PM in response to Snaggletooth_DE
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    Mar 1, 2015 5:30 PM in response to Snaggletooth_DE

    Perfect. Thanks so much

  • by sdipietr,

    sdipietr sdipietr Mar 1, 2015 5:31 PM in response to brilor
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    Mar 1, 2015 5:31 PM in response to brilor

    Thanks. This really helped. I struggled with Terminal, but this was easy. And FIXED!!

  • by Ric Toone,

    Ric Toone Ric Toone Apr 20, 2015 2:27 AM in response to Snaggletooth_DE
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    Apr 20, 2015 2:27 AM in response to Snaggletooth_DE

    This worked for me, thanks very much!  Ric

  • by Ric Toone,

    Ric Toone Ric Toone Apr 20, 2015 2:30 AM in response to Snaggletooth_DE
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    Apr 20, 2015 2:30 AM in response to Snaggletooth_DE

    Just to clarify- for anyone who has no idea how to do this- just search for 'terminal' in your spotlight search and copy this quoted text into the field in terminal.  Then hit enter. 

     

    Close terminal and check your file locations- hopefully they will be viewable immediately.

     

    Ric

  • by polarbreeze1,

    polarbreeze1 polarbreeze1 Apr 26, 2015 8:05 AM in response to d60Dave
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    Apr 26, 2015 8:05 AM in response to d60Dave

    I know this is an old post but the thread still seems to active so here is a possible solution I've found. I was suffering very slow file dialog in Mail after upgrading to Yosemite and I tried everything I could think of to fix it, to no avail. Then I noticed that there was a spurious entry in Finder sidebar - it was a (non-existent) document called f5e, don't know if that's significant. When I clicked on it I got beachball and had to relaunch Finder. I dragged that file shortcut off the sidebar (which also gave a beachball but eventually the pffft cloudburst) and since I did that my file open slowness seems to have gone away. Might be a coincidence but I thought it would be worth mentioning...

  • by slajX,

    slajX slajX May 13, 2015 6:58 AM in response to superjones
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    May 13, 2015 6:58 AM in response to superjones

    Note that this issue was introduced by Apple on purpose, to force users to update to Yosemite.

  • by Kurt Lang,

    Kurt Lang Kurt Lang May 13, 2015 7:05 AM in response to slajX
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    May 13, 2015 7:05 AM in response to slajX

    That is about the dumbest thing I've ever seen posted on these forums. It was fixed in 10.9.2. Update your system.

  • by polarbreeze1,

    polarbreeze1 polarbreeze1 May 13, 2015 7:12 AM in response to Kurt Lang
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    May 13, 2015 7:12 AM in response to Kurt Lang

    Kurt, it is NOT fixed as of 10.10.3. The latest theory is that it can be caused by a corrupted CloudKit database. I tried the fix in this link and so far it has worked but can't be sure yet. https://www.hbang.ws/blog/yosemite-slow-finder-fix/

  • by Kurt Lang,

    Kurt Lang Kurt Lang May 13, 2015 7:34 AM in response to polarbreeze1
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    May 13, 2015 7:34 AM in response to polarbreeze1

    I've been using Yosemite since 10.10.1. I've seen no slow opening of any dialogue boxes. That bug was in the initial release of Mavericks, and was fixed in 10.9.2.

     

    If you've installed Yosemite over Mavericks, such a bug can carry though. It shouldn't, but weird things happen that aren't supposed to. It's one of the reason I never, ever install a new OS over an old one. I set up a new partition and install it clean, then add all of my third party apps as I have time, continuing to do all of my main work in the previous OS until I've got the new partition ready.

  • by polarbreeze1,

    polarbreeze1 polarbreeze1 May 13, 2015 7:37 AM in response to Kurt Lang
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    May 13, 2015 7:37 AM in response to Kurt Lang

    Kurt, are you referring to the corrupted CloudKit database bug?

  • by Kurt Lang,

    Kurt Lang Kurt Lang May 13, 2015 7:49 AM in response to polarbreeze1
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    May 13, 2015 7:49 AM in response to polarbreeze1

    I did see that, but haven't had to do any such modification. Not in Mavericks or Yosemite.

     

    There are two distinct bugs. Mavericks had an issue with dialogue boxes taking forever to open, which was fixed in 10.9.2. Yosemite has a different issue where folders animate in a very choppy motion when opening and closing (normally only the first time for each individual folder). I actually don't know if Apple has fixed the latter. I use OnyX to turn off all desktop animations, so folders just pop open and closed. So if the animation bug is still there, I'd never know it.

  • by polarbreeze1,

    polarbreeze1 polarbreeze1 May 13, 2015 8:04 AM in response to Kurt Lang
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    May 13, 2015 8:04 AM in response to Kurt Lang

    The Yosemite bug I'm referring to is a long, long basketball (many seconds) while the Finder window is deciding to open.

  • by Kurt Lang,

    Kurt Lang Kurt Lang May 13, 2015 8:19 AM in response to polarbreeze1
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    May 13, 2015 8:19 AM in response to polarbreeze1

    Okay, that was the Mavericks bug. I haven't seen that at all in Yosemite, or heard or anyone having that issue in Yosemite. As I mentioned, I installed Yosemite on an erased drive, then added all of my apps and settings. I partially do that so if there is a bug, I can say with complete certainty that it is being caused by that OS (or combination of that OS and certain hardware), and not being caused by installing over a previous OS and dragging some sort of incompatibility forward.

  • by polarbreeze1,

    polarbreeze1 polarbreeze1 May 13, 2015 10:03 AM in response to Kurt Lang
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    May 13, 2015 10:03 AM in response to Kurt Lang

    This slow-finder-open bug is currently affecting me and others who are running Yosemite. It was not happening with Mavericks - it has started happening since installing Yosemite.

  • by shoulihan,

    shoulihan shoulihan May 13, 2015 10:12 AM in response to polarbreeze1
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    May 13, 2015 10:12 AM in response to polarbreeze1

    I'm running the most recent Yosemite (10.10.3) and having this issue as well. Crazy annoying.

     

    I've been on Yosemite since it came out and this just started happening to me a couple days ago.

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