Mavericks unable to view contents of AFP shares

You aren't going to make much progress randomly hacking around on unrelated files or trying to turn off parts of the OS. What 3rd party software are you running on that machine that is slowing it down?

Did you try changing the environment?

I'm sorry to tell you that you aren't going to get very far with that approach. There are millions of people who aren't reporting anything like that. I am a developer so I have been using Mavericks full time for 7 months now. I have not seen anyone report an issue like this. You can't just assume it is a problem common to any machine running Mavericks. I have seen countless people here on the forums who swear up and down they aren't doing anything out of the ordinary or running any 3rd party software. After some investigation, they have some of worst antivirus and "clean up" software known. Your description indicates that you have a fair number of unusual hardware configurations. Install Mavericks on one of your machines, let it finish indexing. and the provide some quantitative numbers. Maybe download and run a little diagnostic program I wrote to show what background processes are running. Download EtreCheck from http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck, run it, and paste the results here.

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On thing tried that did work, was booting the Mavericks system in Safe Mode, which is not usable for all the other things it disables, but it displays the same problem shares/files fine when booted in this mode.

That's pretty hard to understand, considering that "Safe Mode in Mac OS X v10.6 or later also disables File Sharing access."

OS X: What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode?

S1D wrote:

The only common denominators thus far has been Mavericks, and the symptom of lag displaying directory contents.

The only common denominator? You mean you have taken one of your vanilla Mavericks machines, and a Mountain Lion machine, to an Apple store and reproduced the problem there? If not, then there are multiple factors at work.

I believe the quote means it disables file sharing as a host

No, that's not what it means, but taking what you say at face value, the article may be out of date.

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For what it's worth, I am having the exact same problem. There are two common denominators: (1) having Mavericks on the client side, and (2) using tags on a network filesystem.

We are seeing this on multiple different client systems against different network shares (from different file servers). I can confirm that, for me, this is occuring on both AFP and SMB mounted systems. They are fine when at work, which I believe is due to higher bandwidth and lower latency. But the delays at home are atrocious. Literally multiple minutes to get a listing of a directory on one of the network shares inside of Finder.

It is worth noting that this is not a network performance issue. At least, not solely. From the terminal, I can get a listing in a few seconds (or less).

You have some third-party kernel extensions, although none of them was actually loaded at the time you ran the script:

/System/Library/Extensions/FTDIUSBSerialDriver.kext

/System/Library/Extensions/SiLabsUSBDriver.kext

/System/Library/Extensions/SiLabsUSBDriver64.kext

/System/Library/Extensions/TabletDriverCFPlugin.bundle

/System/Library/Extensions/Wacom Tablet.kext

I believe the last two merely create an entry in the I/O Kit registry and don't inject any code into the kernel, but I could be mistaken. Regardless, I would remove them all, then reboot and see whether there's a change.

UGH, ok....I have been having the same problem. I am using my Cisco ASA to filter traffic from my Mac.

HELP. Here is my output

Boot Mode: Normal

Panics: 1

System crash logs:

/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/AdobeCrashDaemon_2014-01-02-025843_BMBP.crash

/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/install_2014-01-04-103331_BMBP.crash

/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/install_2014-01-09-204849_BMBP.crash

/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/open_2014-01-26-193730_BMBP.crash

User crash logs:

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5_2014-01-01-212318_BMBP.crash

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5_2014-01-01-223303_BMBP.crash

EOS Utility_2014-01-04-103755_BMBP.crash

EOS Utility_2014-01-04-103758_BMBP.crash

EOS Utility_2014-01-04-103804_BMBP.crash

NotificationCenter_2014-01-05-010233_BMBP.crash

iMovie_2014-01-08-183055_BMBP.crash

java_2014-01-22-010818_BMBP.crash

java_2014-01-22-010909_BMBP.crash

Kernel messages:

Jan 23 20:04:10 Previous Shutdown Cause: -60

Jan 23 21:44:11 MacAuthEvent en1 Auth result for: 90:3e:ab:e6:79:d0 Auth timed out

Jan 23 21:51:07 Previous Shutdown Cause: -60

Total CPU usage:

User 8% System 3%

Max %CPU by process (name, UID, %):

WindowServer 0 9.8

Loaded extrinsic kernel extensions:

at.obdev.nke.LittleSnitch (4052)

Loaded extrinsic daemons:

org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx

org.cindori.AuthHelper

net.sourceforge.MonolingualHelper

com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool

com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper

com.google.keystone.daemon

com.ciscosystems.ciscoconnect.daemon

com.adobe.fpsaud

at.obdev.littlesnitchd

Loaded extrinsic user agents:

org.macosforge.xquartz.startx

com.oracle.java.Java-Updater

at.obdev.LittleSnitchUIAgent

uk.co.markallan.clamxav.freshclam

com.aviator.keystone.agent

/Library/LaunchAgents:

at.obdev.LittleSnitchUIAgent.plist

com.canon.MFManager.plist

com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist

org.macosforge.xquartz.startx.plist

/Library/LaunchDaemons:

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com.adobe.fpsaud.plist

com.ciscosystems.ciscoconnect.daemon.plist

com.google.keystone.daemon.plist

com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist

com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist

net.sourceforge.MonolingualHelper.plist

org.cindori.AuthHelper.plist

org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx.plist

/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools:

Google Drive Icon Helper

com.ciscosystems.ciscoconnect.daemon

com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper

net.sourceforge.MonolingualHelper

org.cindori.AuthHelper

/Library/StartupItems:

ChmodBPF

Library/LaunchAgents:

com.aviator.agent.plist

uk.co.markallan.clamxav.freshclam.plist

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/System/Library/Extensions/ProlificUsbSerial.kext

(com.prolific.driver.PL2303)

/Library/Extensions/LittleSnitch.kext

(at.obdev.nke.LittleSnitch)

/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Flash Player.plugin

(com.macromedia.Flash Player.plugin)

/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin

(com.oracle.java.JavaAppletPlugin)

/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/MeetingJoinPlugin.plugin

(com.microsoft.communicator.meetingjoinplugin)

/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/SharePointBrowserPlugin.plugin

(com.microsoft.sharepoint.browserplugin)

/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/SharePointWebKitPlugin.webplugin

(com.microsoft.sharepoint.webkitplugin)

/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Silverlight.plugin

(com.microsoft.SilverlightPlugin)

/Library/PreferencePanes/Flash Player.prefPane

(com.adobe.flashplayerpreferences)

/Library/PreferencePanes/JavaControlPanel.prefPane

(com.oracle.java.JavaControlPanel)

/Library/QuickTime/CanonMJPEGAVI.component

(jp.co.canon.MJPEGAVIExporter)

/Library/QuickTime/CanonMJPEGAVIDec.component

(jp.co.canon.CanonMJPEGAVIDec)

/Library/QuickTime/CanonText.component

(jp.co.canon.Text)

Library/Address Book Plug-Ins/SkypeABDialer.bundle

(com.skype.skypeabdialer)

Library/Address Book Plug-Ins/SkypeABSMS.bundle

(com.skype.skypeabsms)

Library/Mail/Mail Lost+Found/Bundles (Disabled)/GrowlMail.mailbundle

(com.growl.GrowlMail)

Library/PreferencePanes/GeekTool.prefPane

(org.tynsoe.geektool.prefpane)

Library/Services/Import into NOOK for Mac.workflow

(No bundle ID)

Library/Spotlight/Growly Notes.mdimporter

(com.growlybird.mdimporter.notes)

Unsigned shared libraries:

/usr/lib/libgcc_s.10.5.dylib

/usr/lib/libMonoPosixHelper.dylib

/usr/lib/libSFFileMonitor.32.dylib

/usr/lib/libSFIPC.32.dylib

/usr/lib/libSFIPC.I.dylib

/usr/lib/libSFsqlite3.7.4.dylib

/usr/lib/libSFSyncEngine.I.dylib

/usr/local/lib/libMonoPosixHelper.dylib

/usr/local/lib/libSFFileMonitor.32.dylib

/usr/local/lib/libSFIPC.32.dylib

/usr/local/lib/libSFIPC.I.dylib

/usr/local/lib/libSFsqlite3.7.4.dylib

/usr/local/lib/libSFSyncEngine.I.dylib

Proxies:

ProxyAutoConfigEnable : 1

ProxyAutoConfigURLString : http://wpad/wpad.dat

ProxyAutoDiscoveryEnable : 1

DNS: 208.67.222.222

Safari extensions:

AdBlock

Restricted user files: 328

Font problems: 37

Bad plists:

Library/Preferences/.com.cocoastuff.apple.plist

Library/Preferences/com.apple.iphotomosaic.plist

Keychains files: 9

Elapsed time (s): 56