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Finder and OFC for Mac painfully slow since Mavericks

OMG, Finder is so slow since mavericks it takes a minute in between each click and that darn beach ball is driving me crazy! Please help!

Office for Mac (not historically super speedy) has also slowed considerably. I am ready to pop that beach ball.

Any advice for how to fix? Thanks much!


Have noticed it more on my imac than my air. Plenty of HD space available so that is not the issue.


P.S. I also don't see the new tabs in finder? What am I doing wrong?

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Nov 8, 2013 8:48 AM

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Nov 25, 2013 9:29 AM in response to jdfurny

Ok kids. So. I've done quite a bit of research and much trouble shooting. Thanks for all of you who tried to help. It appears that the ball is now in Apple's court and let's hope they shoot because all of us are tired of waiting for a fix. To date I've had a few more bugs pop up that I thought I would share here in case anyone else wants to weigh in. Here's a recap of all my lovely little bugs...


My IMAC

Finder is abysmally slow

The beach ball seems to pop up everywhere--especially with Finder and OFC for Mac. Productivity on my IMAC is practically at a stand still.

Two finger click stopped working

Two finger scroll stopped working (not at the same time as the click)

Both of those were restored with a restart. Whew!


Google chrome keeps crashing - it appears that Google Helper and Google Pepperflash regularly stop responding.


My Macbook Air

My voolume buttons and brightness buttons on the keyboard quit working - they have not been fixed - it's happening to a lot of people but no one has a fix yet. Restart doesn't seem to work.


I encourage everyone to report any bugs to apple and as many times as you are willing to make an impression! Here is the link: http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

Jan 10, 2014 12:11 PM in response to CCAPPL

Curious where you are with this issue a few months later. One of the things I've noticed is some systems are just not happy with Mavericks as an upgrade and behave much better with it as a clean install (cleaning out all the gunk from previous operating systems.)


Personally, I have not noticed the same random sluggishness and slowdowns in Mavericks installs in a few weeks now (fixed in an update?).

Jan 14, 2014 9:16 AM in response to satishfromfl

Hello. Great question. I downloaded updates just the other day that finally seemed to speed up my finder on my IMAC. I was thrilled. Then sadly, after installing the same set of updates on my macbook, finder began acting sluggish on it (which was not the case previoulsy). I seem to be ****** if I do and ****** if I don't! It's very frustrating. 😕

Jan 14, 2014 10:02 AM in response to CCAPPL

When I used the word 'update' in my comment I specifically meant an updated Mavericks install, not running current updates.


Just saying it's been my experience not to have ANY recent machines experience any slowdown with a clean install of Mavericks as I did notice when 10.9 first came out.


This being said, you may try backing up your machine, installing Mavericks clean with the latest installer, then migrating your user folder in (or manually copying in your data).

Jun 9, 2014 7:18 AM in response to CCAPPL

I have the same issue, the finder become unresponsive all the time, when I tried to quick review something (picture, video, text files...etc).


After check the crash report by /Applications/Utilities/Console.app, I found the process cause the pain is QuickLookUIHelper:


Sandbox creation failed: Could not obtain real path to the container root (~/Library/Containers/com.apple.quicklook.ui.helper/Data): The operation couldn’t be completed. No such file or directory


So I create a folder called "Data" under "~/Library/Containers/com.apple.quicklook.ui.helper/" , then the problem solved !


Hope this help you guys!

Finder and OFC for Mac painfully slow since Mavericks

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