Since updating to Mac OS Sequoia 15.2 (24C101), dialogue boxes within apps (open/save etc.) have become extremely slow/laggy, with wait times of up to 5 seconds when navigating between folders.
Any advice would be gratefully received.
Apple M1 Max/32GB/Plenty of HDD space left.
MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 15.2
I can see that your system drive has less than 10% free space (although "available" space seems quite adequate). Unfortunately, macOS does not release "available" space to the free pool in a timely fashion.
Some of these kernel extensions appear to be old, and suggest that you may have migrated everything from a previous mac (or more). This can cause some trouble.
Also: there are apparently more than one piece of software, from different vendors (Paragon and iboysoft) related to NTFS drives.
/Library/Extensions
[Not Loaded] ms_ntfs.kext - com.iboysoft.filesystems.ms_ntfs (4.5 - SDK 11)
[Not Loaded] Wireless360Controller.kext - com.mice.driver.Wireless360Controller (1.0 - SDK 10.11)
[Not Loaded] WirelessGamingReceiver.kext - com.mice.driver.WirelessGamingReceiver (1.0 - SDK 10.11)
[Not Loaded] WirelessOneController.kext - com.mice.driver.WirelessOneController (1.0 - SDK 10.11)
[Not Loaded] 360Controller.kext - com.mice.driver.Xbox360Controller (1.0 - SDK 10.11)
[Loaded] ufsd_NTFS.kext - com.paragon-software.filesystems.ntfs (17.0.243 - SDK 10.10)
[Loaded] SONYDeviceType01.kext - com.sony.driver.dsccamFirmwareUpdaterType00 (2.0.0.05200 - SDK 11)
[Not Loaded] CIJUSBLoad.kext - jp.co.canon.ij.print.CIJUSBLoad (16.0.10 - SDK 10.9)
You have Google Chrome and its terrible background tools, that run all the time and hog resources like the system videotoolbox.
I can see that your system drive has less than 10% free space (although "available" space seems quite adequate). Unfortunately, macOS does not release "available" space to the free pool in a timely fashion.
Some of these kernel extensions appear to be old, and suggest that you may have migrated everything from a previous mac (or more). This can cause some trouble.
Also: there are apparently more than one piece of software, from different vendors (Paragon and iboysoft) related to NTFS drives.
/Library/Extensions
[Not Loaded] ms_ntfs.kext - com.iboysoft.filesystems.ms_ntfs (4.5 - SDK 11)
[Not Loaded] Wireless360Controller.kext - com.mice.driver.Wireless360Controller (1.0 - SDK 10.11)
[Not Loaded] WirelessGamingReceiver.kext - com.mice.driver.WirelessGamingReceiver (1.0 - SDK 10.11)
[Not Loaded] WirelessOneController.kext - com.mice.driver.WirelessOneController (1.0 - SDK 10.11)
[Not Loaded] 360Controller.kext - com.mice.driver.Xbox360Controller (1.0 - SDK 10.11)
[Loaded] ufsd_NTFS.kext - com.paragon-software.filesystems.ntfs (17.0.243 - SDK 10.10)
[Loaded] SONYDeviceType01.kext - com.sony.driver.dsccamFirmwareUpdaterType00 (2.0.0.05200 - SDK 11)
[Not Loaded] CIJUSBLoad.kext - jp.co.canon.ij.print.CIJUSBLoad (16.0.10 - SDK 10.9)
You have Google Chrome and its terrible background tools, that run all the time and hog resources like the system videotoolbox.
Well, I've just removed Chrome, and the issue seems to have resolved. Crazy that it would be so resource-intensive that it would impact on my system like that.
Thanks again for all your help. Deeply appreciated.
Any antivirus or cleaners?
Please run Etrecheck and post its full report here.
Use the “additional text” button and paste the report into the text box.
These can perhaps be due to access to slow drives or network shares that take time to load.
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Which could be related, as you mentioned " Slow Drives "
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Thanks for your reply. The issue happens whether I have drives attached or not, and I don't have network shares. It's also never happened in the past. The only thing that has changed is that I have updated to Sequoia.
Hi Luis,
Thank you so much for taking the time to look through the EtreCheck data - very much appreciated.
I've been looking at the available space displayed by Finder and, wrongly of course, interpreting that to mean "free" space.
Interesting that the kernel extensions are sufficiently old to make you think that. This MacBook was set up from scratch. I will look into resolving those as well.
I have become somewhat over reliant on Chrome, I have to admit. What would you recommend instead? Safari?
Again, thanks so very much for your kind assistance.
Chrome is a data syphon, and I refuse to use it on any of my macs.
I use Safari and, occasionally, Firefox.
There are alternative Chromium based browsers, that although built on the same web engine don't have the same data gathering activity. Brave is often mentioned. Others are Edge and Opera.
Maybe these extensions are not so old, but I saw mentions to rather old SDK like 10.10 and
This is sadly still happening. I thought freeing up HDD space and removing Chrome had solved the issue, but it seems it's intermittent. On occasions, the lag when interacting with the open/import/save dialogues can be as long as 10 seconds.
Any further advice would be gratefully recieved.
Unrelated, but thanks for your suggestion. That drive has not been in use for some time.
Thanks for your assistance, Luis. It's appreciated. I don't have an antivirus, nor (currently) any cleaners.
Etrecheck output is below.
Thanks again.
Slow/Laggy Dialogue within Apps
