Mavericks files / directories in finder slow showing up

>>...in System Preferences/General preference pane, toggle the "Show scroll bars: " to Always.

then see if this has helped fix the issue.

It made a big difference here.

I am also having exact same issue since "downgrading" to OS X 10.9 Mavericks. I say downgrading because my Macbook Pro has been rock solid and fast before this latest install. I get hung finder many times per day, sometimes it goes away on second try from same application, or attaching a second file to an email after first hung. Finder is blank, spinning icon bottom left corner...usually 15-25 seconds. Also, the "fix" listed in this thread is not accurate as my scroll settings in system preferences/general have always been set to "always" during this issue.

Really amazed that Apple let this one out of the barn with such a blatent issue. Yes, it's not like having the blue screen of death, but when you are pounding away during a busy workflow day, having these kinds of glitches and weirdness is just unacceptable for a company of Apple's size. Still hoping someone posts a real fix here.

Much better - thank you. Great thinking!

Same exact problem... very frustrating. Let's go Apple... we need 10.9.1 with a fix for this.

i am pleased that so many people report that the strange toggling of the scroll bars seems to have helped them as well.

thanks

Same issue here on a MBP 15" Retina with 16 GB RAM. I've tried reindexing spotlight as well as leaving the scroll bars on "always", no help. It's getting rather annoying, hopefully a fix is on the way.

Another possibly related issue I've noticed is that Quicklook is VERY slow compared to what it used to be. Sometimes it will quickly open an image, but other times a 20k JPEG will take 5+ seconds to open using quicklook. Anyone else notice that issue?

azamino wrote:

i am pleased that so many people report that the strange toggling of the scroll bars seems to have helped them as well.

thanks

Does not solve the problem here. It occurs in ( at least ) the Preview app and Firefox here. As others have noted, subsequent open file dialogs in the same app are fast because the file list is cached. Has anyone opened a problem with bugreporter ( rdar not feedback )?

Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem solved sooner.

Feedback

Same problem here. "Scroll bar" solution does not work for me.

Apple - this is serious.

(And yes, I did send them feedback using their webpage.)

jorhh wrote:

Apple - this is serious.

Okay, this is definitely a small issue that I hope Apple fixes shortly, That said, I REALLY hate when people exaggerate issues. This is not a serious issue, it's an annoyance.

If you use your mac to facebook and mail that's fine and i can understand the point that you could consider this as an annoyance, but when it's your work tool on a daily basis, it's a SERIOUS problem that slow you down and make you lose precious time.

I agree that it's fairly serious. The first few times it happened, I thought my files had been deleted. I figured out that wasn't the case, but I'm sure others have not. And I agree that the delay, which is sometimes nearly 45 seconds, adds up after a while.

Rick Mansfield wrote: I agree that it's fairly serious.

Hopefully everyone is reporting the issue to Appleso they know this isn't some stupid user error and many folks are experiencing the issue.