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Very funky Finder behavior

Killerbob

Killerbob

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I have an MP3,1 which is working just fine. It is fast for my needs, and I have never really had a significant problem, until today...

In OSX (10.9.3) I suddenly experience a very very slow Finder:confused:

It takes seconds to open up drives as well as folders... wtf...

Funny thing is that if I login as my wife on the very same MP, there is absolutely no problems - fast as usual... I switch back to my login, and it is slow... And, it is only Finder action that is slow. Aperture, iTunes, Photoshop, all is fast as usual...

I haven't made any changes, and any software updates affect my wife as well.

Is there anything that is user specific which would affect OSX in this way?
 
Do you have anything in your login/startup items on your account that you do not on Mrs. KB's account? That would cause this. Maybe some kind of utility?
 
I checked that out already, and even with nothing in the login scripts, it is the same. However, when I Safe Boot it is fine, so it is obviously something...
 
I dont know if OP is talking about network folders. For me, my network folders are very slow to access. I just got my MBA last week. I have my shared folders on my server and when I click on a folder it takes a long time to access. My folders are on my server that does not go to sleep. This is my first mac so I really didnt know what to except.
 
Just tested Finder lag issues on my new MP 5.1. I found out that my connected CCC backup external FW800 HDD is causing mayor lags in Finder. Specially the 'open with' execution takes a very long time and building the application icons too. That's because it will search the back-up for applications too. Now that I've added the HDD to the Privacy tab in Spotlight, Finder is as snappy as it should be.
 
Killerbob said:
I checked that out already, and even with nothing in the login scripts, it is the same. However, when I Safe Boot it is fine, so it is obviously something...
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Also look in the your user Library folder for anything running from the LaunchAgents folder. Anything in there that is not in the same folder in the other account?

Open Finder then in the Go menu click Go to folder and enter this.

Code: 
~/Library/LaunchAgents
 
dazz87 said:
I dont know if OP is talking about network folders. For me, my network folders are very slow to access. I just got my MBA last week. I have my shared folders on my server and when I click on a folder it takes a long time to access. My folders are on my server that does not go to sleep. This is my first mac so I really didnt know what to except.
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That's normal. On Windows network folder's sometimes the "explorer.exe" phreaks out and crashes due smb protocol being "slow". That affects all systems but Windows is just that system that I see crashing for everything.




anyway,
clear you cache. Maybe it is something deal with some plist or other stuff.
 
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