Finder stopped working after macOS 14 update

Yesterday after an update to 14.4.1 my finder got stuck. So I turned off iCloud Drive, but when I want to turn it back on the setting menu gets stuck and doesn't include iCloud. That is on MacBook Pro Intel. Is it there any solution?

i am losing my mind. lost so much work trying to solve this, it's icloud drive thats being shoved into our throats that's messing up. Icloud drive has hijacked my entire desktop, feels like i dont own any files anymore and i am at the mercy of icloude drive. Can't even move files out of it since they take 1000000000 years to move.

I got tired of waiting for this to be fixed and bought a 4TB SSD to put my user folders on; that way I could format it as APFS and it would fix the issue of not being able to turn on iCloud Drive.

Well…this has not gone well at all. Trying to house the user folders on the external SSD created absolute mayhem with permissions problems that could not be fixed (I'd correct the permissions and minutes later nothing would remember their settings…so I'd look at the permissions and they had all spontaneously changed again), all kinds of icon weirdness, and too many strange issues to list. I wiped and reinstalled the OS (Sonoma) about 4 times.

Found another thread talking about using an external SSD for the user home folders…and I've now been told that it simply can’t be done! Apparently the functionality for changing the path to user home folders that Apple provides in the Advanced Options in Users and Groups is badly broken and isn’t expected to be fixed.

So guys - if any of you are hoping to house your user folders anywhere other than the internal drive, let me spare you some pain and time. A level 10 dude told me that it didn’t matter what my four family members used the computer for or what our software requirements are, I shouldn’t have any problem putting all of us on the 1TB internal. He also told me that just because Apple provided the ability and option to move home folder paths from the MacOS GUI, we shouldn’t expect it to work properly, it doesn’t mean that Apple approves or supports using the feature, nor should they have to warn us that if we do it, it would be bad. 😳

See my reply from "Jonah"

I have reinstalled MacOS during the night. I will wait few hours and let you know. Thanks bycero!

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

The same when copy/move/trash items in usb disk. The Finder is locking. You have to wait almost 2 minutes for responding.

"In Finder, press Command-Shift-G and paste this "

The problem being, Finder's frozen. So...

Did you turn off iCloud Drive?

Same issue on M-1 Studio

Finder has been a drag since the Sonoma update! SMH...

It was just slightly buggy at first. Now, I cannot even see files the files that are AirDropped to my Downloads folder.

Launcher fails to start in Sonoma

For me the issue clears after an hour or so but after every restart it reoccurs and lasts for another hour.

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.