How to disable finder animation?

I would really like to kill the 'cutesy' animations associated with the Finder in Yosemite.


My biggest issue is the option to create a "New Folder with Selection" under Finder/File menu


I work with large image libraries, moving files and collections around - ogten in the 100s of images at a time

A typical example: I shoot 300 images and dump the files into a temporary work/storage/sort folder on my desktop

I then select subsets of files as required and move them into specific folders based on subject, location etc


Lets say I select all the NEF files (Nikon raw) to put the NEFs into a single folder

I select 300 files (30MB each) and I have the option of creating a folder based on this selction


super-slow animation of folders hunching together then treacle-slowly 'dropping' into the folder

can take up to 30 seconds for the cutesy animation eye-candy before I have the option to rename the resultant folder


there have been plenty of times when this exercise (multiple times per day) has crashed the finder


is there a defaults write command to kill this Finder behaviour?


any assistance welcomed!

MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), (mid-2012) 8GB RAM

Posted on Jan 9, 2015 1:03 PM

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