Mavericks files / directories in finder slow showing up

PfromMS wrote:

A few minutes later I toggled FileSharing off and then on again, and got an immediate positive response.

Toggling the FileSharing off and on did the trick for me. I've tried every other suggestion on the internet on this problem and I was starting to go insane! This was the answer!

Thanks!

I've been trying to fix this for a while, using the various recommendations.

What worked for me was to turn off 'Show Preview'.

Now it is still slow the first time you go to a directory in Finder, but it's back to normal speeds after that.

I'm thinking of getting it to open all the standard directories at boot up - is there something that does this automatically?

This fixed my issue!!

Even selecting "When scrolling" works.

I'm running on the latest Yosemite, so this is a problem that's been around for a while.

Curious that I never had a problem with loading files in Finder until one day it just started being extremely slow...

Thanks BThiessen, this worked for me! (Mac Book 12" retina)

I think I have a really simple answer and a fix that's been working for me from the get-go.

What I realized was that the I have been migrating from Mac to Mac over the years and certain folders have gotten really big in size, in terms of number of files and total filesize within a folder.

In my case, it was the "Downloads" folder...the default folder that my Chrome would download files into...and also email attachments. I always had trouble (as with everyone else on this thread) with a lag and delay in attaching files, selecting files, or downloading files into this folder.

Well, when I looked at the folder, it had become hundreds of files totaling over 1.2 GB in size. I finally just deleted everything (since they were mostly web downloads) and empty the trash thereafter.

Now choosing files from the folder is lightning again...zero delay.

Hope this helps.

I did what azamino and BThiessen suggested and it solved the problem for me - setting the General System Preferences to "Always" for "Show scroll bars".

Before that I had tried deleting the cloudd process as suggested in this post: http://osxdaily.com/2015/04/17/fix-slow-folder-populating-cloudkit-macosx/

The cloudd fix had helped with faster population of the Finder window but I was still experiencing problems within applications when accessing subfolders within a folder.

I probably shouldn't have followed these directions since, I had no idea what I was doing, but.......worked great!!!!!

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! I was loosing my love for my computer.