Freezing Finder with PSD/TIF files - HELP!

Wow, that was a fast response, thank you.

I did remove Norton after the incidence, and yet, the problem exist.


I used to open my project files with Photoshop CS5. Before I open anything, I browse through my project data within the Finder, i.e list view + quick view, I just scroll up and down within the window to check out the data name before I open it.
Everything works just fine. I used to use Xee image viewer and I can literally open and view any image. But as soon the files get larger in size, and the more files I got in one folder - like 100+, the more it was likely, that my Finder hangs. And it still does.

It starts to freeze immediately within seconds or when I scroll down more and there it goes, spinwheel goes nuts and I have to restart my Imac (omg). I did that like 8-10 times now. I left my Mac on when I went to bed for 2h, and after I checked it again, the spinwheel didn't do anything then spin and I could not quit Finder. Everything hangs.

All I need to do, is to open my Projects folder, and boom, freeze. I thought it was due to the large TIF files. I deleted them via Adobe Bridge, because I can't go to that folder with Finder, otherwise it'll freeze AGAIN. Now I had the PSD files left, they are about 50-300MB big, and I got around 100 of them in one folder. Issue still remains.

I deleted almost everything, checked my startup icons and so forth, but I did not have the problem before, or I didn't notice it.

I can however browse lots of PSD files with smaller sizes AND as I mentioned in the above post. I can view my project folder with PATHFINDER and ADOBE BRIDGE with absolutely NO single problem.

I guess it's a Finder-Preview-PSD Extension- etc problem? I got the Mac like a month and now I got this. Gladly no one can tell me I got this issues due to some weird Trojans or "badly configured" computer.

Sigh, as I stated, my current solution is just to use Adobe Bridge or Pathfinder. This is driving me crazy, I can't work like this.

I can imagine that people would say, hey you got Pathfinder and you can go to your folder, whats the big deal?! Well, the big deal is that I expect Finder to work flawlessy, and the way I want. I want to browse my files within Finder, like every other person in the world..

I guess I'll just cry myself into sleep (lol), I seriously gonna do it.

Thanks for your tip. I already did subfolders. I also did a Finder reset, manual, and with Terminal

I assume OSX reached it's limits? Each file is 5175 x 3375, with 300 ppi and it's up to 300MB. I got like several subfolders now with 100 PSD's.

So, whenever Finder tries to utilize the file and creates a small preview icon (even in list mode view), it starts to hang.

Now should I continue experiment how many files are needed, that Finder wont crash? I wont go down to 50 or 20. I did enough. I never experience such issue in my entire life. This is really depressing.

UPDATE: After some marathon researching, I stopped by at a "solution". Well, just disable icon preview via view options. The downside is, I cannot preview my files within that given folder. But at least- No hangs and spinning Pizza!

Is there no option or Terminal tweak to tell OSX to process PSD/TIF files larger than xxx MB???