macOS high sierra Finder not responding

Did you return backup after clean install?

I have same issue with 2017 MacBook. It seems rather they are unable to solve the problem. They recommended I reinstall High Sierra. I am rather thinking of going back to Sierra.

The finder Arrow/icon spinning nonstop

I restarted my computer 5 times so far

restarted doing this:

1. Press the shift key during boot
2. PR clear
3. regular restart

same problem, I have been trying to fix this problems for 4 hour now :-(

please help

Thanks

I have also reverted to Sierra. It is very sad to see Apple not caring about hardware that is a few years old. I was part of the High Sierra beta program and had reported the issue to the Apple macOS team, but apparently they only focus on new, under-warranty products.😟

My Dropbox account did not work on MacBook Air after installing MacOS High Sierra. The dropbox icon did not show on the menu bar. Besides, I tried to delete it and reinstall the Dropbox but still nothing happen. Anyone help?

I have this problem as well. The menu bar disappears when I quit all the applications. It only comes back if I open a new app. Shutdown does not do anything unless I wait for ages. The only way to restart is to hold the power button down.

I am not sure but I think it's worse when I use safari as a browser and not chrome.

i am having a similar problem. I have been running high sierra on my late 2013 27" iMac for a couple of weeks already with out issue. Suddenly, i started having issues with finder where it would not allow me to open any finder windows. All i get is the spinning beach ball and I have to relaunch finder. It happened when i started into safe mode and it happens when i log in to a different user.

I did a clean install of 11.13.1 and the problem is still there. This time both Finder and the Dock stops responding after using Quicktime to play any video. I had submitted a couple of reports to Apple Support during the beta testing of the OS.

No, I didn't. I just installed the available updates for OS. My MacBook Pro kept freezing (Finder, the Dock and Menu Bar) whenever I tried to play any video or access an external drive. It also rebooted every 10 minutes or so.

I have just reverted to Sierra. High Sierra has been nothing but trouble for me; far worse than Windows Me and it makes Windows Vista look like a perfect OS.

Since reverting to Sierra, I haven't had a single issue.

High Sierra has been nothing but trouble for me; far worse than Windows Me and it makes Windows Vista look like a perfect OS.

That's funny, people said the same thing about Sierra.

And Yosemite.

And El Capitan.

And Mavericks.

And Mountain Lion.

And Lion.

After so many years and so many macOS upgrades, perhaps one would start to think their problems just might lie elsewhere? Noooo...

I have the same problem ever since upgrading. I tried signing out of iCloud, to no avail.

It works OK until I go to browse a large directory (well, not really, only about 13K files). The file list comes up, but the Finder completely freezes when I try to even browse the directory. I can force quit Finder and recover, but this system is nearly useless if I can't access those data.

Any other ideas? I've Google'd until I'm blue in the face but can't find anything. It started IMMEDIATELY after a FRESH INSTALL of High Sierra and persists after the 10.13.1 update.

Thanks.

This is very helpful information, thank you. I chased an tech issue with Apple recently whereby every time we deleted a folder / file, we were bounced back to the root folder. Tech support discovered the root cause was accessing via finder, and we solved the problem by using the "go" button (entering IP number). It seems finder is a poor solution to access files in general.

The latest solution I'm entertaining is getting completely rid of the concept of everyone accessing the same physical file structure. I recently moved from NAS to Mac because of similar issues, which worked great until High Sierra. We seem to be constantly chasing file sharing issues, so I am thinking of changing strategies.

My latest thought is to install an external drive on everyone's mac which will sync with shared Dropbox folders. The approach would be centered around everyone essentially working "locally". I'm interested to see how this might resolve all file sharing / finder issues going forward...we shall see?

I have the same problem, how do I solve it?

Same problem but mine hasn't fixed itself after three days. MacPro. I'm also having to remount external HDDs after every boot up. Dropbox also not working. Bit of a disaster really ...

After a few days waiting I have to revert back to sierra. Not cool at all.