kufan0001
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Q: 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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  • by Integr8d,

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

  • by Glen.i.Langston,

    Glen.i.Langston Glen.i.Langston Feb 25, 2014 12:33 PM in response to akauppi
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    Feb 25, 2014 12:33 PM in response to akauppi

    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

  • by LeoMB,

    LeoMB LeoMB Feb 25, 2014 2:16 PM in response to kufan0001
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    Feb 25, 2014 2:16 PM in response to kufan0001

    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.

  • by Bryan Navarro,

    Bryan Navarro Bryan Navarro Feb 26, 2014 5:06 AM in response to kufan0001
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    Feb 26, 2014 5:06 AM in response to kufan0001

    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.

  • by JoshRoedaMacUser,

    JoshRoedaMacUser JoshRoedaMacUser Feb 26, 2014 5:41 AM in response to kufan0001
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    Feb 26, 2014 5:41 AM in response to kufan0001

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

  • by Dick Verbunt,

    Dick Verbunt Dick Verbunt Feb 26, 2014 6:34 AM in response to kufan0001
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    Feb 26, 2014 6:34 AM in response to kufan0001

    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.

  • by Gobsmacked15,

    Gobsmacked15 Gobsmacked15 Feb 26, 2014 8:33 AM in response to JoshRoedaMacUser
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    Feb 26, 2014 8:33 AM in response to JoshRoedaMacUser

    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!

  • by ph47,

    ph47 ph47 Feb 26, 2014 9:56 AM in response to kufan0001
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    Feb 26, 2014 9:56 AM in response to kufan0001

    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. 

  • by icfm138,

    icfm138 icfm138 Feb 28, 2014 6:11 AM in response to Integr8d
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    Feb 28, 2014 6:11 AM in response to Integr8d

    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

  • by KitChaos,

    KitChaos KitChaos Feb 28, 2014 3:30 PM in response to kufan0001
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    Feb 28, 2014 3:30 PM in response to kufan0001

    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.

  • by icfm138,

    icfm138 icfm138 Feb 28, 2014 11:13 PM in response to KitChaos
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    Feb 28, 2014 11:13 PM in response to KitChaos

    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.

  • by Onion6270,

    Onion6270 Onion6270 Mar 1, 2014 6:05 AM in response to kufan0001
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    Mar 1, 2014 6:05 AM in response to kufan0001

    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

  • by neoqh,

    neoqh neoqh Mar 1, 2014 7:28 PM in response to KitChaos
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    Mar 1, 2014 7:28 PM in response to KitChaos

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

  • by Integr8d,

    Integr8d Integr8d Mar 1, 2014 10:41 PM in response to kufan0001
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    Mar 1, 2014 10:41 PM in response to kufan0001

    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.

  • by mlac_007,

    mlac_007 mlac_007 Mar 3, 2014 9:39 AM in response to Integr8d
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    Mar 3, 2014 9:39 AM in response to Integr8d

    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... 

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