Slow screenshot saving to iCloud desktop in High Sierra

I have the same problem. It seems to take anywhere from several seconds to 30 seconds. Also with general files/folders. If I save a file or folder to the desktop, it is the same problem. Also, if I do a screenshot-to-clipboard... something similar is happening. For instance, I can take a screenshot to clipboard. Paste it... nothing. Paste it again... nothing. Eventually several screenshots will paste. It is as if the data has cloud priority before local priority.

Shouldn't some diligent-customer-care-tech-chap monitor this threads and give answers to their clients?

Why are we left alone to guess what to do?

It is not that we have to figure out a solution by ourselves or is it?

How can a state of the art brand new macbook """"PRO""" take a minute to save a screenshot?

A full minute!!!!

Has anyone been able to resolve this problem... I am having this problem even when I drag an image from Safari and drop it onto the desktop... it can take 40 seconds (which feels like 2 minutes, when you are waiting to use that image) for the image to appear on the desktop.😠

Hi

I just noticed on my 2012 laptop the screenshots at home take a second to show up ... my 2015 laptop at work is SO LONG ... both running latest version of MacOS ... HMM ??

2015 has SSD drive ...

Wonder what helps ?

GH

Backup and Syc Google Drive causes the delay in saving screenshots. There is an option in Google Drive to backup everything in Desktop to Drive. You can disable it but the delay time still may be too long. When you quit Google Drive, everything is as fast as previous Mac OS releases. I couldn't know that stupid thing and run clean install for High Sierra. Such a waste of time. 😠

I can verify this.

After quitting and restarting Google Backup and Sync, screenshots and images dragged to desktop from webbrowser appear immediately.

I do not have the option to sync my Desktop turned on in Preferences, only one folder located on a secondary hard drive is synced. It is doing something with the Desktop however, when you op en B and S preferences it's calculating size. So maybe there's a background process which interferes with saving images to Desktop.

Had the same problem but also have a solution:

Remove Finder Extensions within "System Preferences" related to Citrix Sharefile (my case) or Google Back-up (from what I found on the web). Everything is fine again, except the added functionality of the extensions. Sit and wait until someone (Apple, Citrix, Google) will repair this...

I disabled Google Backup and Sync and did not see any change. I have a 2013 iMac with a fusion drive and it worked fine on showing updates in folders and on desktop until High Sierra. It's not just screen shots to the Desktop - I have also seen in when a process like Xcode creates a new folder, the folder does not show up in the finder window until I actually reboot the Mac!

This actually sounds more like a corrupted file system or hard disk related problem.

The problem described here is easy to reproduce. Drag an image from the browser to the desktop or make a screenshot. With Backup & Sync enabled it takes seconds before the image appears on the desktop. When Backup & Sync is disabled the image appears instantly.

Yes, I have confirmed as well. It appears to be related to Google Drive, though this did not start happening until recently. Not sure if it is High Sierra or the new "Backup and Sync" app (vs. Drive), both of which happened around the same time.

One way or the other, Google needs to get it fixed.

I can confirm - *definitely* caused by Google Drive Backup and Sync.

Running Google Drive Backup and Sync ON with macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 on early 2014 MBP

Google Drive Backup and Sync ON - files, screenshots take 4-7 sec. to appear on desktop

Google Drive Backup and Sync OFF - files, screenshots instantaneously appear on desktop (like normal)

From the 'Hate it for me' department - I have TWO instances of Backup and Sync running - one for work, one for home use. Running even one produces the results from above. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #TheMoreYouKnow

I had the same problem, ever since I installed High Sierra exactly a month ago. Slow screen shots saving to desktop. Slow ANYTHING saving to desktop. I did a test using this advice (to change where screenshots are saved to - I had them go to a folder in Documents) and my screenshots were then saving faster, it was a messy work around. But I need things saving to my desktop quickly, that is just the way I work. I tried fiddling around with iCloud drive prefs, namely turning off Desktop and Documents folder, but that didn't work. I didn't have Google drive installed so that wasn't it. I kept seeing references about having 3rd party things installed being a bad idea, such as Mac Cleaner. A few days ago I got rid of Mac Cleaner. Still no change. Yesterday I deleted Malwarebytes. Still no change. Finally I deleted Sophos. Restarted..... It's like I've got a brand new Mac! Speedy start up, apps start up so quickly, everything has become much faster. And, screenshots, or any file, saving to desktop instantaneous once more. I am so happy.

I can't categorically state it was Sophos, or whether it was a combination of the three things I deleted which were causing the problem. I did a restart after deleting each one, and it was only after deleting Sophos that I got the miraculous result.

I was blaming High Sierra for all the glitches I had been encountering, but now I am loving it and think it was the 3rd party stuff. I might even now take the plunge and upgrade to 10.13.3.

Now I just need to sort out the multiple 'ejecting of external HD' message when mac is asleep and I will be even happier.

Would love to know if this helps anyone else.

Removing sophos didn't work for me until I restarted the computer. If this doesn't work go into your system preferences and on the bottom section, right click on everything you don't use and click remove. Restart your computer and see if that fixes the issue

Sophos changed the free Mac software. I used Sophos uninstaller to remove Sophos, and did a new down load. A totally new version installed. It is linked to a free trial of Premium. It also doesn't allow you to scan individual items on the desk top. With the new version of Sophos I am having no trouble with drag and drop to desk top.

Also check if "Grab" ( in Applications > Utility folder) has accidentally become your default image viewer, rather than Preview. I found this to be an issue. It is new in High Sierra. Make sure your default viewer is Preview.

its not just screen shots it is EVERY file creation from adobe, apple to just dragging a web bookmark. non cloud service here. jobs would be rolling over in his grave with the poor roll outs of the OS.