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Q: Mavericks files / directories in finder slow showing up

I have had this problem happen very consistently. When pulling up finder or an application that needs to call on an open file dialog to look for something, the files and subfodlers take a long time to actually show up. If I select a subfolder, the progress wheel will grind in the lower-left corner for 15-30 seconds before the files in that subfolder show up. Selecting another level under that will give me the same delay.

 

I'm running an 2012 27" iMac, fully loaded with an i7 and max mem.

 

Anyone else having ths problem? I thought at first it might be a spotlight/index issue with my drive once I initially upgrade, but I have had it now for several days with my computer left on the entire time, so indexing should have been done.

 

Any ideas on what is causing this is or how to work around it?

 

Thanks.

Posted on Oct 27, 2013 1:55 PM

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  • by mzaalam,

    mzaalam mzaalam Oct 11, 2014 3:21 PM in response to brilor
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    Oct 11, 2014 3:21 PM in response to brilor

    So this has been bugging me for a while (Note: I'm on 10.9.5 and on a 2010 MBP), but only now got round to digesting this thread and doing Snaggletooh_DE's workaround.  It was bizarre reading your comment that 10.9.2 fixes this issue - clearly it didn't for me and workaround was still necessary!


    Anyone else still experiencing it without the workaround in place?


    Edit: Ok so scratch that the workaround is not working - still getting that fricking wheel since I upgraded to mavericks a few months ago!


    What's that saying 'if it ain't broke....'

  • by Tim Mitra,

    Tim Mitra Tim Mitra Oct 12, 2014 10:21 PM in response to azamino
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    Oct 12, 2014 10:21 PM in response to azamino

    This definitely has fixed or at least spend up the Finder. Adjusting the Scrollbar behavior as mentioned by azamino

  • by domster7,

    domster7 domster7 Oct 21, 2014 6:47 PM in response to mzaalam
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    Oct 21, 2014 6:47 PM in response to mzaalam

    STILL having the problem after the SnaggleTooth fix and upgrading MacBook Air 2013 to 10.9.5. Can take minutes for a directory of 150 files to appear! Or to copy files, though that slowdown seems less frequent. The only fix that seems to work is force quitting the Finder, in order to get to my files :/

     

    On a side note, I just tried downloading the latest xCode which failed after 99%, so perhaps it's something wrong with the machine.

  • by Italy74,

    Italy74 Italy74 Nov 3, 2014 1:30 PM in response to Rick Mansfield
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    Nov 3, 2014 1:30 PM in response to Rick Mansfield

    +1 here - iMac 21.5", i5, 8 GB RAM bought in March 2011, since I installed Maverick (actually I am running 10.9.5, coming from 10.7.x through 10.8.x) everything slowed down to death and I too had the impression that some files were deleted, so SLOW it is to read them, not to talk about external devices (CD, usb pens etc) - also when attaching files to email or other programs everything is very very slow and takes a whole lot to complete.

    Apple, maybe this is not a critical update, yet something that many many user endure with great dissatisfaction... I'm sure this is NOT so hard to fix.. please!

  • by domster7,

    domster7 domster7 Nov 3, 2014 1:34 PM in response to Italy74
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    Nov 3, 2014 1:34 PM in response to Italy74

    Zapping the PRAM (option-cmd-P-R) seems to have cleared it up for me.

  • by mzaalam,

    mzaalam mzaalam Nov 15, 2014 5:11 PM in response to mzaalam
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    Nov 15, 2014 5:11 PM in response to mzaalam

    Ok so yosemite seems to have sorted this out... and then some.  Loving the integration with the iphone - calls coming to the computer and texting from chat.  Nice upgrade!

  • by thejfmjfm,

    thejfmjfm thejfmjfm Dec 3, 2014 12:17 PM in response to mzaalam
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    Dec 3, 2014 12:17 PM in response to mzaalam

    I have been battling this bug since 10.9.x (several versions). I am on 10.10.1 on a iMac (27-inch, Mid 2011) with 8 gig of RAM.

    I have tried most of the "fixes" mentioned in the threads and I STILL have the problem.

    Am about to try the PRAM "fix" next.

  • by thejfmjfm,

    thejfmjfm thejfmjfm Dec 3, 2014 12:25 PM in response to thejfmjfm
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    Dec 3, 2014 12:25 PM in response to thejfmjfm

    Zapping the PRAM made NO difference. I have to wait 18 seconds for any new window to open from a disk object.  This is long enough for the Force quite window to briefly show "Finder (not responding)" just before the window actually opens.

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Dec 3, 2014 12:33 PM in response to thejfmjfm
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    Dec 3, 2014 12:33 PM in response to thejfmjfm

    How does it behave in Safe Mode.

  • by thejfmjfm,

    thejfmjfm thejfmjfm Dec 4, 2014 2:32 PM in response to Csound1
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    Dec 4, 2014 2:32 PM in response to Csound1

    Exactly the same behavior in safe mode.

  • by thejfmjfm,

    thejfmjfm thejfmjfm Dec 5, 2014 6:10 AM in response to thejfmjfm
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    Dec 5, 2014 6:10 AM in response to thejfmjfm

    Also persists after deleting OS and upgrading to Yosemite!

  • by stbodie,

    stbodie stbodie Dec 19, 2014 8:16 AM in response to kb8wfh
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    Dec 19, 2014 8:16 AM in response to kb8wfh

    I had these same sort of issues and tried everything. Turns out it is a known issue and Apple has a replacement program for the bad video card in many iMac models. The bad card causes grey screens, black screens, sleep issue, hard drive slowness, system spins, kernel panics, and more!  Wow, all fixed at no charge at my local Apple Store! 

     

    See:

    iMac (27-inch): AMD Radeon 6970M Video Card Replacement Program - Apple Support

  • by whitesalmon133,

    whitesalmon133 whitesalmon133 Dec 19, 2014 1:08 PM in response to Carolyn Samit
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    Dec 19, 2014 1:08 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

    I did the re-indexing, and it definitely speeded up the populating of the Finder screen. THX!

  • by TheRealPowerFlower,

    TheRealPowerFlower TheRealPowerFlower Mar 1, 2015 5:20 AM in response to Snaggletooth_DE
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    Mar 1, 2015 5:20 AM in response to Snaggletooth_DE

    Just came here to say Snaggletooth_DE's fix saved my life. >sigh of relief<

  • by Robert Patterson3,

    Robert Patterson3 Robert Patterson3 Mar 18, 2015 8:35 AM in response to kb8wfh
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    Mar 18, 2015 8:35 AM in response to kb8wfh

    I have been having the same problem described on this post. I tried the workaround suggested by Snaggletooth_DE on this thread with little improvement (if any). However, recently my problem seems to have gone away, and I want to share why I think that is.

     

    I develop a software package single-handedly, so I had never taken the time to worry about source code control. Instead, I was branching my source trees into different versions after each major number upgrade. Each parallel branch had literally thousands of files, all in the same sub-directories with the same names. By the time I moved to Mavericks, I had four parallel branches. I think this is what was blowing the mind of the Mavericks Finder.

     

    Recently, I had occasion to move my source files into a git repository. To do it, I committed all the branches in stages into the repository, archived them (in zip files) and deleted the branches. Now I just have one branch with my files in it. And suddenly I am seeing no more Finder issues.

     

    EDIT: I should add that I only saw the spinning ball issue when I was navigating inside the parallel branches. In other folders I never saw it.

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