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Slow file open dialogue box

Hi,


I upgraded to Mavericks OS over the weekend and everything seems to work ok. The only thing I have noticed is that my when I try to attach a file in Mail the dialogue box opens and where previously files would immediately appear they now take several seconds, maybe as long as five, ten seconds.


I think I've noticed similar behaviour in other applications but Mail is the one I use the most in this way.


Has anyone else experienced this since upgrading to Mavericks?



Regards and thanks,


Dave.

MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Oct 28, 2013 6:03 AM

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Posted on Oct 30, 2013 4:16 PM

Yep, I am also seeing this‚ in many apps. At first I thought it was just because of the external drives spinning up, but that doesn't seem to be the case. It often takes as long as ten seconds, too. The pinwheel in the bottom left of the dialogue box will go to town and I can click through folders, but no contents will list and default directory icons will stay blank until it's done "loading".


It also seems that each app I'm using has to go through the process—so it's not like it goes through it once and it's "fired up" so to speak. So it's a little frustrating going back and forth between Photoshop and Illustrator. WIsh I knew how to narrow down exactly what it is!


I'm on a late 2011 21.5" iMac.

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Oct 30, 2013 4:16 PM in response to d60Dave

Yep, I am also seeing this‚ in many apps. At first I thought it was just because of the external drives spinning up, but that doesn't seem to be the case. It often takes as long as ten seconds, too. The pinwheel in the bottom left of the dialogue box will go to town and I can click through folders, but no contents will list and default directory icons will stay blank until it's done "loading".


It also seems that each app I'm using has to go through the process—so it's not like it goes through it once and it's "fired up" so to speak. So it's a little frustrating going back and forth between Photoshop and Illustrator. WIsh I knew how to narrow down exactly what it is!


I'm on a late 2011 21.5" iMac.

Oct 31, 2013 3:34 PM in response to d60Dave

Hi Dave,


I just wanted to chip in and say I'm seeing the same issue too over the last week since upgrading. Filesharing on or off.


I get between a 10-20 second delay in file open or save dialog boxes across a range of programs but it's not consistent and I can't seem to pin down what triggers it yet.


I saw someone else with the same issue here:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1656123


I've just trashed the finder preferences (com.apple.finder.plist) and relaunching Finder and will see if this helps and report back.


EDIT - ok, no it didn't! As soon as I went to Safari, it spun for 12 seconds. Went to Mail and tried an attachment and got the same thing.


On a MacBookAir 13" 2012 model that's blazingly fast, so it's not for horse power or down to disk access.

Oct 31, 2013 8:48 PM in response to d60Dave

****, this is frustrating. i'm having the exact same issue.

2012 macbook pro 9,1 2.3GHz quadcore 16GB ram 240GB SSD

no reason for anything to ever take 20 seconds or more to load.

trashed .plist, repaired permissions, nothing.

not sure where to go but i've got a few experiments i'm gonna run.

hope we get to the bottom of this soon.

Nov 1, 2013 6:51 AM in response to d60Dave

If this is affecting more than just one or two people, then it's best to start to file feedback at this address:


http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html


I imagine the more reports that come through the 'official' door about the same issue, the more it is pushed up the stack, so it's probably the best way to get it noticed. I've logged it once, but be good if you all did the same.

Nov 8, 2013 9:53 AM in response to d60Dave

Same issue here. Another thread ( here ) suggested a possible fix by toggling the Show scroll bars option ( System Preferences===>General pane ) between "always" and "when scrolling" but most folks said it didn't help ( but one did ). I've posted a feedback note to Apple but wondering if anyone has posted a bugreport ( rdar ). btw/fwiw: this is on a: 27-inch iMac 3.4 GHz Core i7 quad-core with 16 GB Ram.

Nov 15, 2013 11:59 AM in response to d60Dave

I'm the author of Default Folder X - an enhancment for Open and Save dialogs - and have been fielding reports from my users complaining of this same problem in Mavericks, asking if my software's causing it. Are you folks running Default Folder X, or are you experiencing the same delays without it?


I've done a bunch of performance testing and cannot for the life of me get Default Folder X to cause any additional delays - however, I'm seeing some fairly long waits with Mavericks on its own, and want to confirm that you folks are seeing the same thing.


For what it's worth, it seems to happen for some folders the first time you access them, but after their metadata gets into the disk cache, response is almost instantaneous. If you experiment with a folder on an external disk drive, you'll find that unmounting (ie. ejecting) the drive and then remounting it will reset this behavior and the first access to the folder will be slow again.

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