Finder stopped working after macOS 14 update

Same issue. After several restarts, Apple support and still no success the system caught up with reindexing and just began to be normal again. For me this was 569GB of drive on a 1Tb drive, so allow some time for the system to catch up is my suggestion.

Jonah

Alright. Steps that I tried:

• Reinstall Sonoma
• Disable iCloud Sync - I tried it multiple times, but the system settings were freezing after disabling it, I waited one hour, but nothing was happening.
• Change the system language from Polish to English
• Multiple restarts

Finally, after one of the restarts, Finder was able to boot. 🥳

PS. Disable iCloud Sync never worked, it was enabled all the time.

Ever since I updated my macbook air (chip Apple M2) to Sonoma 14.0 my laptop has issues and isn't working properly. My work flow has been slowed down and the system has ridiculous bugs:

• preview per space key not working - when space key is pressed the file actually opens. cannot be fixed by relaunching the Finder.
• an odd blue frame appears when moving cursor/mouse
• when changing from, say, Windows to Chrome and back again the cursor jumps either right to the end of page or top of page in either applications???!!!
• i have reinstalled and rebooted incl. deinstalling and reinstalling applications such as chrome, endnote, outlook etc.
• i have shut down and launched in safe mode - problem occurs in either mode

With every update OS gets worse and worse. I was increadibly happy when I bought the airbook only a few months ago...now i am frustrated on a daily basis! bloody nuisance!!!

Not sure if its the solution : i disabled the icloud feature to save all documents on icloud ...

1. Deacitvate sync of icloud-Drive
2. I deleted all local copies of the icloud
3. I disabled the feature to save all my documents on icloud drive (only those files in the icloud drive will be synced)
4. enabled sync and downloaded all files from iCloud once manually

Now the finder is working normally for me. But I haven't installed the latest update. Not sure if I should do :D

By the way: I got a new Macbook and imported my files (inklusive iCloud) via a TimeMachine Backup. Is this the same for all of you?

I can confirm, I am having the same problem, with the finder crashing when iCloud Drive is enabled. It's been escalated with Apple Support for a couple days now and I am still waiting for their reply

Also happening to me on Mac Mini M1.

In my case I have a problem with iCloud Drive sync on my internal SSD of MacBook Air M1, I do not have external drives, I can't use iCloud Drive since I installed Sonoma 14.0, 14.1.

I'm going to keep iCloud off on the iMac and if I have important things to save to the cloud, I'll have to use my iPad or iPhone. This is not ideal. Why have the computer?

If you are using an external drive for your user folders, it has to be formatted as APFS. This solved the problem for me and lets me use iCloud drive

Cheers. Just trying that now. Yeah thats pretty annoying that we can't use iCloud. You would imagine since both come from Apple, they would have tested these things...

Unfortunately Sonoma 14.2 did not fix it for me on a MacBook Pro 14" M2 Max ...

Sonoma 14.2.1: Finder Search does not work in a folder saved to the desktop. Moved the folder to Documents. The Finder Search then works on the folder.

Thank you for the suggestions to get around the problem!

14.2.1 here and still the same issues. well done apple.

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