Slow loading Finder in Mavericks?

To fix cloudstation:

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1. Locate "Synology Cloud Station" in the Applications folder

2. Right-click the icon and do a "Show Package Contents"

3. Dig down to the folder "Contents/MacOS/iconoverlay"

4. Rename the file "runSynoSIMBLAgent" to "_runSynoSIMBLAgent" (you might be asked for your password -- I can't remember)

5. Reboot

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Thanks to philbert1 on synology forum

That seems to do the trick! Thx!

Hi all,

I have had the same problem since upgrading to mavericks, and tried all the suggestions and solutions provided in this thread but to no avail. Eventually, and for unrelated reasons, I bounced yesterday on this http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=5284495#post5284495

I tried it, for as unbelievable as it can be, and to my real suprise it works perfectly, reproducibly, surviving as well both mac restarts or finder relaunches.

Only drawback is, one needs real training to use the double click at that speed.

Anyone of the gurus having a hint on the why's and if by changing some other parameters we could get the same effect + keep the double click speed withing the human range?

THanks to all for the collective effort.

Adriano

Hello, have had this same problem since upgrading to 10.9.2

I have tried all of the suggestions here (the OSXdaily idea, trashing the finder plist file etc) and none of it worked.

Spent an hour on the phone over the weekend with AppleCare technical support and found something that works for me (so far). Here it is (and this is what the manager on duty guided me through):

1. Go to Home -> Library -> Caches (if you cannot "see" the Library folder, then while in Finder, go to the Go menu, hold down the "option" key and just click Library). Now hit "command A" to select everything in the Caches folder, then trash everything (hit "command delete" or just drag to the trash).

2. trash the com.apple.finder.plist in the Library -> Preferences folder (I don't know if this is necessary, since I've tried this step before and it didn't do anything. So it might just be #1 that helped me, but I did them in this order so why not try it!)

restart your machine.

Finder might seem to act strange for a day or two (when all the icons on your desktop disappear/flash for a second, and Finder windows might close and then reopen. This has been happening to me, but has really subsided in the last day or so. I guess the Caches folder is repopulating or something). Anyway, my Finder is basically back to normal, and it was almost unusable before doing this. It was taking like 2-3 MINUTES for Finder windows to show the contents of the folder, and I couldn't attach anything to (web-based) email. I thought my mid 2012 $2300 rMBP was dying. Now I'm back to just all of the OTHER problems with this machine. The technical support manager assured me that trashing everything in the Caches folder won't do any harm, and my computer seems fine. So if you're like me and have tried EVERYTHING ELSE you can find online, try this! Worth a shot! Worked for me, and I hope it works for you.

I already have 10.9.2 and it didn't solve my issues.

What has solved my problem is one of the solutions posted in this thread.

I followed the instructions posted before by zeloeistotheo and I'll repost them in case anybody needs.

zeloeistotheo wrote:

The slow loading finder issue is easily resolved by the instructions in this thread from Snaggletooth_DE and Posthumous

Open Terminal.

Enter "sudo vi /etc/auto_master"

Hit i for insert, which allows you to edit

Use arrow keys to move the cursor

Add a # to the front of the following line so it reads: #/net -hosts -nobrowse,hidefromfinder,nosuid

Hit escape, type :w and hit return to save changes

Type :q to quit

Reboot

This worked for me. Retina mid-2012. Thanks for the post.

I used the instructions posted here , and finder is working fine again. Seems to need to clear kextcache. This is the safe way to do it "they say".

http://kangaetakoto.blogspot.com/2013/05/how-to-rebuild-kext-cache-on-mountain.h tml

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kext cache rebuild is just a two-step task.

1. sudo touch /System/Library/Extensions/
2. sudo reboot

It's NOT recommended to execute kextcache manually.

This is my fix! Thank you so much!

I had these problems too. I was running the antivirus realtime protection built into mackeeper..... disabled this and bang super quick finder again... Hope it helps...

I tried every solution in this thread, and still no luck. When I connect to my Windows 8 PC and try to load any folder it is still terribly, terribly slow. Once it finally fully mounts, it is fine, but it can literally take upwards of 15 minutes to fully mount a folder.

This HAS to be an issue with OS X itself. Latest version of 10.9.3. Really seems it first was introduced with 10.9.2 but it may have been 10.9 outright.

Please fix this Apple. It is ridiculous at this point.

I WAS about to change to Mavericks and I am reading the far too many issues that this OS brings in this list. Time is priceless and it would be fare to give tens of thousands of people some satisfying compensation for wasted time for trusting Apple in installing a new OS that brings such an immense amount of trouble to so many people! Go to supreme court does not help and it is more energy, time and money spent, maybe for nothing. In my country, very unfortunately, even the basics from the government and some companies are not respected. I would have nowhere to address for a problem like this here. I must think well before just giving a simple and careless solution, such as "go to supreme court. good luck". If I loose the only thing not possible to get back in life - TIME - I would like to be heavily compensated, but such a thing would never happen. Not in Brazil. An OS with so many fixes to be operated should never be out, in the first place! I moved from SL to Lion and then to ML, with no help (and I am not and advanced user) and I found no bugs at all. How can the latest OS, announced to be "the best ever", be so bad?! I like new things. I like to move forward and enjoy new features, but I am really afraid of loosing time and annoying myself. Computers should help. Not be one more problem in life!

Colleagues, the first post is fron OCtober 30th. The last on is fronm yesterday, on the SAME ISSUE! This is not acceptable!

This works, thank you!

Thank you rubyreddevon! It worked! It was a little worrying when the warning about using the sudo command appeared but this issue has been so frustrating I was prepared to risk it.

I tried everything from this thread and all over the web, nothing worked. I knew it wasn't a hardware problem because I could navigate the filesystem just fine on the command line, it was just Finder being a dog. The problem seemed to stem from coreservicesd and the IconServicesAgent (or whatever it was called), which would use about 60% and 30% CPU (of one core) when listing out any folder in Finder, big or small. So it wasn't exhausting my resources or anything, but that's way too much for just browsing files.

Eventually I stumbled across someone who said to try starting up in safe mode and see if the problem was there - and it wasn't. Coreservicesd and IconServicesAgent didn't feature at the top of Activity Monitor and everything was well again. But how do I fix the problem when not in safe mode? Well, I booted back into my user without safe mode and just like magic, the problem was gone and hasn't come back.

TL;DR try booting in and out of safe mode.