Speed just while saving regular documents incredibly degraded after macOS Sonoma update

Our IT department traced this to iCloud sync. For some reason Sonoma update put sync on and when I turned it back off (as this is work computer) problem rectified itself. This was, for me, an easy solutions but if you want and need to have the iCloud sync on (e.g. in personal computer) this obviously doesn't help in that case.

Just because you are saving to your internal drive and not Dropbox doesn't rule out Dropbox causing issues.

I don't know how to disable it completely to rule it out. You'd have to figure that out. The current version doesn't work well with Sonoma.

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I'm experiencing this too... very severe. Happy to share screens with someone from Apple to demonstrate if this helps.

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There seems to be random problems people have with Sonoma that most do not.

This appears to be another. I've not had any problem saving files of any type on Sonoma.

Most of these problems have boiled down to some other software that isn't compatible cause obscure problems.

Are you using DropBox or OneDrive? DropBox is the source of another problem on Sonoma, but since it is a saving thing, I threw in OneDrive, too.

Experiencing this too, "Save as" in any app just doesn't work which is very frustrating. Yesterday I installed Sonoma again and by magic everything worked... for about half a day and now I'm back to square one.

Also Finder seem to start for 10 minutes before it comes up and is extremely sluggish. An even removing a small file, eg. 100kt picture "moving to bin" takes 30ish seconds.

  Model Identifier: Mac14,2

  Model Number: MLY43KS/A

  Chip: Apple M2

  Total Number of Cores: 8 (4 performance and 4 efficiency)

  Memory: 8 GB

  System Firmware Version: 10151.1.1

  OS Loader Version: 10151.1.1

And over 400GB of available on HD

I'm experiencing this too... very severe. Happy to share screens with someone from Apple to demonstrate if this helps.

I sync Desktop & Documents and don’t have any slowdown. It’s likely related to the company network not playing well with a cloud server.