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kufan0001 Author

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Slow loading Finder in Mavericks?

I bought the brand new Macbook Pro Retina that came with Mavericks plus I upgraded my old Macbook Pro Retina to Mavericks before my new one came. On both computers I am noticing a few different things that are rather annoying.

When attaching documents to emails, etc... it is taking my finder forever to load the contents of the directory I am trying to access. It is doing this on both computers, so I am assuming this is something to do with Mavericks and not the new computer. It is rather frustrating because for my job, I am contstantly attaching documents to emails every day, but having to wait a good minute or two for a directory to load to find what I am looking for to attach is getting rather annoying.

Even my stickie notes load slow now when opening them in Mavericks and it has never done that before. They kind of appear laggy when loading. Usually they just popped right up.

Is anybody else experiencing this problem? Any suggestions for a fix? I really enjoy Mavericks but it seems to be messing with the overall performance of some things.

Posted on Oct 30, 2013 8:05 AM

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ph47

Level 1

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Feb 19, 2014 10:49 AM in response to Bryan Navarro

I've done that just now, Bryan. It worked, and IPv6 is now listed as "Off" for my Ethernet connection.

No change however, when I open a new Finder window, it still takes 15-20 seconds for the window to populate (Application icons, etc.)

I rebooted, verifed that IPv6 was still off, and tried the Finder again, with the same delay. Internet connection still sluggish and prone to slow loading & stalls, and just general sluggish/slow behavior - sometimes I'll have to click an app twice in the dock to launch it, etc. Symptoms persist.

Feb 19, 2014 10:50 AM in response to Bryan Navarro

Yep, that works. I was able to change my Thunderbolt-Ethernet service to Off.

Feb 19, 2014 10:52 AM in response to ph47

Is your Wi-Fi service turned off? If not, turn it off and even if it is, change it's settings as well. Just in case.

ph47

Level 1

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Feb 19, 2014 10:53 AM in response to Bryan Navarro

Wi-Fi is off. But I'll try it as well. Couldn't hurt at this point. BRB.

ph47

Level 1

14 points

Feb 19, 2014 10:59 AM in response to ph47

No change with IPv6 turned off for both Wi-Fi and Ethernet. 😟 Symptoms persist. Did it work for you?

Feb 19, 2014 11:00 AM in response to ph47

Yeah so far, but I'm gonna give it a few days to see if anything changes. It's obviously not a fully working solution if it doesn't solve for us both.

Feb 19, 2014 11:42 AM in response to blurped

Thank you blurped,

running this in the terminal worked perfectly

sudo defaults write com.apple.Finder NSAppSleepDisabled -bool YES

Feb 19, 2014 1:10 PM in response to kufan0001

I agree this seems to be a bug in finder. Part of the finder slowness may be due to

finding things in Mail. Now I'm seeing mail items when searching my computer for files.

Is there any way to tell 'finder' NOT to search Mail?

akauppi

Level 1

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Feb 20, 2014 12:16 AM in response to Glen.i.Langston

You can check Mail off in the Spotlight preferences. "Email and messages".

Unfortunately, this is a very coarse on/off switch. I would prefer having separate switches for:

- e-mail bodies

- e-mail attachments (I'd switch off)

- instant messages

On my system, I suspect the problems to be connected to spotlight. But I'm not able to iron them completely out. Switching Spotlight off for mail altogether (i.e. no search within mailboxes, even within Mail app) is simply too much to ask.

Good luck!!

neoqh

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Feb 24, 2014 5:49 AM in response to Bryan Navarro

Bryan,

I started to encounter this problem only after the installation of my NAS. Hope that you could suggest this to engineering. Thank you.

KitChaos

Level 1

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Feb 24, 2014 2:55 PM in response to kufan0001

I seem to have same prolbem after installing NAS also, Synology in particular BUT this is odd....

Finder is slower on late 2012 iMac with 16G RAM and 3TB fusion drive...could this be due to drive.

My late 2007 iMac has faster Finder and only 4G RAM. Do not understand this. Tried all solutions above and they did help BUT still slow FInder.

Feb 25, 2014 11:03 AM in response to kufan0001

The 10.9.2 update has fixed my Finder Quick Look problems.

ph47

Level 1

14 points

Feb 25, 2014 11:45 AM in response to khunsanook

I want to say that I'm cautiously optimistic that the 10.9.2 update has solved my problems as well.

Integr8d

Level 1

15 points

Feb 25, 2014 11:57 AM in response to kufan0001

Also running a Synology. Don't know that I can tie it to that, unless Cloudstation is doing something.

As khunsanook suggested, maybe something to do with Quick Look. The other day, I noticed that when Finder was stalling, I happened to be resizing a window. The preview icon was stuttering all over the place.

Downloading 10.9.2 right now and will see what happens.

Integr8d

Level 1

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Feb 25, 2014 12:16 PM in response to Integr8d

I'm going with No Change. And I just dinged a 768MB download on my mobile data plan to find out!

Immediately launched a Finder window and dragged some folder to the desktop. Started beach balling on the first one. When dragging them back in, it took a second to redraw the window as well. If anything, it seems a little weirder.

Slow loading Finder in Mavericks?