Q: Finder is too slow on El Capitan and constantly freezes
Hi
Since I upgraded my Macbook Air mid-2012, every single action on the Finder lasts about 5 minutes.
If I open a folder, delete a file or anything else, it simply freezes.
The phenomenon occurs just on one session, the others don't have any problem.
I stopped all the extensions interacting with the Finder but there was no improvement.
There is something else I noticed ; in the sidebar list there are hundreds of blank favorites :
I thought that could linked to my problem, then I tried to delete them one by one but it takes 5 minutes for each one.
I tried to edit the file com.apple.sidebarlists.plist in my Library to erase all those blank favorites but there was no result.
I finally found out that the sidebar favorites where stored in the com.apple.LSSharedFileList.FavoriteItems.sfl (in this folder : /Libray/Application Support/com.apple.sharedfilelist/ ). I tried to edit this file, or even to simply erase it, but every time the Finder reloads this file is restored and the blank favorites come back.
I forgot to mention that I also reinstalled El Capitan but the problem still remains.
Do you have any suggestion to solve this problem ?
MacBook Air, OS X El Capitan (10.11)
Posted on Oct 19, 2015 8:28 PM
OK I just solved my problem :
In the sidebar there was a bookmark for a folder ( Users/poubellator/RKube ) that had been erased a few years ago.
I just recreated the folder and as a miracle all the blank favorites disappeared.
Now I have re-deleted this folder and everything goes well.
Thank you so much, you were very helpful.
Posted on Oct 20, 2015 12:27 PM
