Q: Slow loading Finder in Mavericks?

Found the culprit for folders on desktop not showing contents for 20 - 30 seconds after restart. Turn off your wireless. Restart your computer. Open any folder, and you'll see that they populate immediately. So it has something to do with wifi. At least for me. Anyone else? I upgraded my internet recently to 12mbps so that must have something to do with it. So its not necessarily a Mavericks thing.

Thank you, this solved the problem for me.

Snaggletooth's solution so far seems to also fixed it for me too!

Pete,

Thanks for the tip about etrecheck. I ran it, and a few issues popped up - but this seems to be the most troubling, I would think. Any suggestions?

Problem System Launch Daemons:

          [failed] com.apple.wdhelper.plist

I spent  one month in bloody-**** with this issue.

As far as I know, some people in the forums are having "freezing finder / all day beach ball of death / Fusion drive / SSD slowness..." with Mavericks and the thing that these people have in common is an SSD Disk.

So... maybe if you check out  "About this mac / System Information / SATA / SSD / Trim Support" and enable this one if isn't you'll finally solve the problem, it worked for me.

You can enable it by Terminal, but all the codes I got were for Developer Preview betas, so tried this app and worked like a charm: http://chameleon.alessandroboschini.it/index.php

Hope you can solve it, 'cause I had worst month ever!

So, are you selling this crapware? You seem to be posting it on every thread you can find. Looks like junk, so I would think you are wasting your time.

Cheers

Pete

I ran a network trace and found that Finder, on the first list of /Applications after a boot issues a DNS query for 'Backups.backupdb'. The 8.8.8.8 server replies immediately with 'No such name' and the list gets populated. However, using the RoadRunner DNS servers the query receives an IP of 24.28.193.9 (owned by RoadRunner) in response to the 'Backups.backupdb' query. A Portmap request is then issued against this IP. The Portmap request is retransmitted at 1/10 second intervals for 20 seconds when it finally gives up and Finder populates the list.

Only users with ISP DNS servers that loathe to return 'not found' in lieu of advertising will see the delay.

Both Snaggletooth's fix and turning off WiFi cause the DNS query to return immediately allowing Finder to complete the lists.

Backups.backupdb is the TimeMachine folder.  Finder is probably looking for it, even when it shouldn't, on a Time Capsule connected by WiFi. 

Thanks Snaggletooth_DE . This actually resolved my problem as well.

Commenting out /net with #  (#/net .....) after Step 3.

Snaggletooth_DE wrote:

 

1. Open an Terminal.

 

2. enter    "sudo vi /etc/auto_master"

 

3. edit the textfile you have open now (auto_master is a textfile)

 

4. save and quit vi

 

5. reboot or enter "sudo automount -vc"

 

Many thanks to all those involved for researching & creating a work-around for this issue. It was driving me absolutely nuts.

Ohh crap, the problem is back again the next day. I checked auto_master. The comment is still there in the line where /net begins. I am not sure why the issue is back again.

mithun1977 wrote:

 

Thanks Snaggletooth_DE . This actually resolved my problem as well.

Commenting out /net with #  (#/net .....) after Step 3.

Snaggletooth_DE wrote:

 

1. Open an Terminal.

 

2. enter    "sudo vi /etc/auto_master"

 

3. edit the textfile you have open now (auto_master is a textfile)

 

4. save and quit vi

 

5. reboot or enter "sudo automount -vc"

 

That's a strange fix, but it worked for me, so thaks.

I went to System Preferences then General and made sure that "Always" was checked for the Show Scroll Bars option.

same problem too! it happened every time I turned on or rebooted mac.

This is just bad. Everything I do, the issue comes back, I don't have the money to buy two new disk and do clean installs. I am also mad that I can't go back to the older OS from a transfer.

I am really surprised Apple hasn't even put out a press release about this issue. I watched Jobs over the weekend and saw how the company fell without him. I knew this would happen after his death. Jobs pushed for perfections. I guess the new order figures we will live with it. This is very sad. If Apple goes down hill, us pro users are going to really be in trouble, minus the monetary investment over the years.

I am really loosing productivity in waiting for finder to populate somtines taking a few minutes. That adds up when billing a client.

Oh well. It has been a month and Apple hasn't even addressed this. That is scary and says a lot about a company.

nelsonmay,

did you try the simple fix that worked for me, as referenced above?  it works immediately.

I went to System Preferences then General and made sure that "Always" was checked for the Show Scroll Bars option.

nelsonmay wrote:

 

This is just bad. Everything I do, the issue comes back,

You are on page 7 of someone else's thread. Perhaps if you start your own thread (you can put a link to it here if you still believe it is exactly the same issue) and outline the exact issues that you are experiencing, and perhaps even some sort info like an etrecheck report 

http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck

Or a copy of the crash log from Console, or anything that we may see that may help diagnose the problem you are having. Most people are running Mavericks without problems, so never presume that because a few others are complaining about having real issues here in a troubleshooting forum, that it is representative of the majority of users. It is most likely unique to your setup and install. Thus a new thread would help you find your problem quicker and have it addressed.

Cheers

Pete