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 petermac87,

    petermac87 petermac87 Mar 7, 2015 1:53 AM in response to Denisism
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    Mar 7, 2015 1:53 AM in response to Denisism

    It's a suggestion for you

     

    Pete

  • by Denisism,

    Denisism Denisism Mar 7, 2015 10:27 PM in response to petermac87
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    Mar 7, 2015 10:27 PM in response to petermac87

    Thank you, petermac87.

     

    I did this in Terminal again for good measure and it asked for my password after I entered it.

     

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

     

    It seemed to take like last time.  Then after deleting the Finder preferences and restarting as you instructed, the Finder still shows that it App Naps in Activity Monitor.

     

    Finder still app naps after terminal command.png

     

    If it naps for a while, I can expect pauses of up to 3-5 seconds before a folder will open from the Desktop, etc. -- when it's not napping, the folders all open instantly every time.  I also have an issue where my Finder doesn't launch all by itself after restarting the computer.  I was thinking about perhaps taking another Finder app from another Mavericks install and trying to replace it in case it was corrupted or something, but I have no idea if that would make matters worse or not.  The strange thing is everything else on the Mac is very fast and snappy.  It's just the Finder that's sluggish and nothing else.


    As far as this command goes ---  sudo defaults write com.apple.Finder NSAppSleepDisabled -bool YES


    Is there somewhere I can check by opening a file in BBEdit or something to see if App Nap is supposed to be disabled or if the command does nothing?  In other words, where is that supposed to be written to?  In the Finder's plist?  Somewhere else?


    In case I didn't mention: latest Mavericks 10.9.5 (I can't upgrade to 10.10.x just yet due to incompatibly issues with mission critical apps I use).  I can't do a clean install --- although I really wish I had time to do so as I'm sure it would probably solve this issue.  Unfortunately all the time it would take to reinstall all my apps and re-input all their settings would take over a month and I would lose too much work/money and it would put me and my family in a critical position especially after dealing with downtime from a recent massive hardware issue that Apple had to repair with a GPU/Logic board replacement for a defect on my early 2011 MacBook Pro.  I've clean installed before when I had a Mac OS issue and it took about a month until I was up and running again and productive with all the apps and settings back in order.  It's just not feasible at this point in my life and I'm hoping there's a fix that can be found or I'll just have to cope with a very non-responsive Finder for a long while.

     

    Thank you for your help.

  • by BongoLives,

    BongoLives BongoLives Mar 8, 2015 1:53 PM in response to Snaggletooth_DE
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    Mar 8, 2015 1:53 PM in response to Snaggletooth_DE

    Thank you so much Snaggletooth, you fixed my sluggish new Macbook (15/i7/256/16gb) ...my opens and saves where soooo slow but now, fixed! Thanking you!

  • by drzog68,

    drzog68 drzog68 Jun 2, 2015 9:33 PM in response to Posthumous
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    Jun 2, 2015 9:33 PM in response to Posthumous

    i have the file open but I can't type or replace text

  • by Captain Lardnicus,

    Captain Lardnicus Captain Lardnicus Jun 30, 2015 10:28 PM in response to kufan0001
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    Jun 30, 2015 10:28 PM in response to kufan0001

    New Macs (or new installs of OS 10) sometimes have an indexing/defrag process that takes place which I find slows things down tremendously for a few days.

     

    Hard to debug, but after it's complete then it's really fast...

  • by Greent001,

    Greent001 Greent001 Jul 26, 2015 7:30 PM in response to satishfromfl
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    Jul 26, 2015 7:30 PM in response to satishfromfl

    Thank you Thank you Thank you!!!! Have tried all the other suggestions and Dropbox was the culprit the whole time

  • by PhilNH,

    PhilNH PhilNH Apr 22, 2016 5:55 AM in response to williamguerra
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    Apr 22, 2016 5:55 AM in response to williamguerra

    This solved my issue. http://osxdaily.com/2015/04/17/fix-slow-folder-populating-cloudkit-macosx/

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