Slow loading Finder in Mavericks?

Thanks your suggestion for turning off mail searches seems to have helped.

All was working OK before the latest 10.9.2 Mavericks update.

Still seems OK.

I did notice that when finder was very slow, finder was a huge memory hog.

Restarting finder did help, dropping from about 1 GBytes to around 40 Mbytes

Simple solution that worked for me:

Under the Apple menu, select "Force quit..." and select Finder in the list. Hit "Force Quit" and the problem is solved.

All,

So far, 10.9.2 has rectified the issue for me. I'm going to wait it out a bit more but let me know if you are finding that 10.9.2 corrects it for you as well.

For reference, before updating, I reset all of my IPV6 settings back to automatic to ensure that everything was how I had it before.

10.9.2 seemed to fix... So far. Great news!

Updated to 10.9.2 but still having issues with slow Finder.

C'mon Apple.

Anybody knows how to fix it? My machine is completly new so that can't be the issue.

Josh: I'm glad for you, and very pleased to say that 10.9.2 seems to have put my slow Finder problem right too. When I command File > Open, the window that appears loads lightening fast, now!

It's definitely better here after a day or so. It doesn't take 15-20 for a Finder window to populate. Things still aren't anywhere near as snappy as Mountain Lion, which felt near frictionless on this machine. Safari still loads pages slow, the Finder, while "fixed", still takes a second or so to draw in the icons.

Overall, it's better than it was, but really, Mavericks seems buggy & sloppy relative to the last 2-3 OSX iterations. Was definitely not ready for primetime. I hope Apple waits next time until the OS is more mature and stable before rushing it out.

Seems like Cloud Station has caused the Finder problem on my Mac. After the deactivation everything works fine again.

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13" MacBook Pro Retina 2012, 120GB SSD, 8GB

OS X 10.9.2

Synology Cloud Station Version 3.0-3005

icfm138:

Did you KEEP Cloud Station off?? I have done all the above and still slow Finder, even after update to 9.0.2.

I do have CloudStation on.

Yes, I have closed the app. When I need to sync something, then I start it again.

Looks like a known issue:

http://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?f=194&t=80301&hilit=finder

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I've also tried everything of the last 13 pages in this thread, but only this works.

Yip, 10.9.2 appears to have fixed the slow Finder issue. Will give it a few days, but great to see files load lightning fast again 🙂

Seems like CloudStation is the problem for me too. I've uninstalled the app and everything is now back to normal. Cheers!

Confirmed Cloudstation was the culprit on my end too. Now I have to go back and undo all of the other 'fixes'. Thx to whoever noticed/discovered.

Did not fix it for me.....I still have the slow loading finder after updating my Mid 2011 iMac to 10.9.2. - It is still completely "unresponsive" taking 15-20+ seconds once the destop appears to open any applications and/or show any windows. My iMac also for some reason seems to always want to index the Macintosh HD despite mail and messages being unchecked in spotlight....I am not running cloudstation...so frustrating - never had this issue in 10.8.x... 😟

That was the problem for me too !