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Q: Finder issues. mbfloagent Metadata. framwork [Error] :  mdscopystoreattributes failed: (8) (os/kern) no access

My finder often takes a very very long time to list the contents of folders.

 

It was like this in Yosemite and is still like this in El Capitan.  I am using both Dropbox and iCloud on my Mac.  I believe this started when I started when I upgraded by iCloud account and added about 30GB to it.  I have both iCloud Drive and Dropbox working on my Mac.

 

However I have the same setup on a MacBook Pro and it does not have this problem.

 

I have looked in Activity Monitor and Memory Pressure is fine.  I am not sure but I think it gets better when I quite some apps like Chrome and my Mail app, but hard to tell as the finder comes around after a while and not sure if it is a coincidence.

 

In console there is something that definitely stands out, which is that this line repeats every second, literally, constantly.

 

mbfloagent :  Metadata. framework [Error] :  mdsCopyStoreAttributes failed: (8) (os/kern) no access

 

Does anyone understand what this is, if it could be related, and how to fix it?

 

I do not see any forum comments about finder issues since mid 2015.  I tried this, http://osxdaily.com/2015/04/17/fix-slow-folder-populating-cloudkit-macosx/ and it did not work for me.

 

Running OSX 10.11.2 on a Mid 2011 27 inch iMac

Processor: 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5

Memory: 8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3

Only using about 1/3rd of hard drive space

 

Thanks for you help.

iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.2)

Posted on Jan 13, 2016 9:10 PM