Hello communities,
since last Mac OS Sierra update (10.12.2, on december 14th 2016), finder seems to have a major issue when opening folders containing djvu files: the color wheel appears and finder almost freezes. Are you facing the same issue or is it a local problem from my MacBook Pro?
Thank you in advance for the answer.
MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012)
Exact same problem here. It looks like they screwed up something with this new version of Sierra
so that any directory that contains a .DJVU file is slow to open. And any DJVU file is slow to open too.
A nice surprise if you have many DJVU files.
I suggest to convert all DJVU to PDF file, since they will probably never fix that problem !
Like they never fixed the slow opening of large files with Preview.
I have this issue too. That Finder becomes incredibly slow when opening directories that have djvu files. Trying to copy, rename or do anything with the files becomes almost impossible. Someone mentioned that the most recent update to DJView fixed this. But not for me, unfortunately. I have tried various different approaches to resolving this, but nothing has worked. I think it is an issue with the implementation of Finder.
Hi Everyone: if you have not yet upgraded to Sierra 10.12.3 ,4 or 5, don't !
I had the problem solved with 10.12.2 but I upgraded to 10.12.5 and here we go again.
One solution: more all you djbu files to s DJVU folder (using the Terminal, don't do it in the Finder) and then never open this DJVU folder again until the problem is fixed. Which means never again.
Amazing that Apple screwed up again. In fact, not surprising at all.
Same here. Make a folder with all the djvu files, and copy only an alias into your usual folder, should work.
Never open the djvu folder.
Bad work, either by Apple or by the guys from djvu team (the Finder uses com.caminova.djvu.mdimporter from them)...
The djvu team does not seem to be very mac-oriented.
Wissme: sorry about that.
I also use DjView 4.10.6.
I also did :
$ defaults write org.djvu.qlgenerator thumbnail -bool false
in the Terminal window, which removes all thumbnails for the DjVu files.
Maybe this is what solved the problem after all.
Amazing, mine says "thumbnail = 1".
The trouble with Sierra is : not only we don't understand the problems,
we don't even understand the solutions either...
Maybe try to contact Jeff Sickel : see
Bonsoir MoonJ,
thank you for the answer. Unfortunately, I already tried several times a safe mode reboot, with no improvement. Opening folders containing djvu files always causes troubles to the Finder (but no problem viewing the files themselves with a djvu reader). Before realizing that the problem came from djvu files, I followed other suggestions (as removing some specific files in the Library/Cache/CloudKit directory or the com.apple.finder.plist in Library/Preferences/ directory) with no success. Another Apple Support Communities user seems to face the same issue (djvu file causes iconservicesagent to exhaust cpu on macos sierra).
Sincerely yours,
Leonardo
Wismme:
Good news, I found a way to fix that. Just delete the DJVU application, and re-install it. Voila.
I agree with you: bad work from both teams.
Lovelovesus2 :
I did that with the DjView.app (version 4.10.6), no effect.
Is that the djvu app you are using ?
Sorry, but I entered that in the Terminal, rebooted the machine, and still no effect :-(
Maybe it's magic ?
~$ defaults read org.djvu.qlgenerator
{
thumbnail = 0;
}
Mac OS Sierra and djvu files
