I have a 2010 unibody mac mini 8gb ram and since I've updated to Mavericks, everything is a bit faster, not that it was slow before. I don't have any beach ball issues or any issues at all. Too bad other people are having issues. I hope they do a patch soon.
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Mavericks: Slow finder / spinning beach ball
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Having the same issue with slow Finder. Tried everything on my Mini and my Air. It drives me nuts. Reverting to a Carbon Copied version of my system pre-10.9. Will re-upgrade when a patch is released.
And this is why Mavericks sucks.
With ML that never went below 1GB free
I don't understand this, isn't it supposed to compress RAM?
Also, what exactly does 'inactive RAM' mean? I'm pretty sure it means there's actually a lot more free RAM, it's just that some of it is reserved for applications in case they need it.
That's what I thought. However, i've never had this many system lockups and spinning beach balls with any other OS. And I have a 2012 Quad-Core MacBook Pro, so it's not like I have an hold computer.
I just encountered the problem of extremely slow folder operations. Activity Monitor exposed the culprit, a process called 'com.apple.IconServicesAgent'. I killed the process (force quit), restarted Finder (using cmd-option-esc), and Finder seems to be normal now (or for now).
same problem here with the mac book pro retina display... thinking I'm buying power this bull cr()p is freezing when using photoshop but most annoying of all is when i open finder and it shows the folder but no content loads until i click the folder all the way from it starting root. I'm calling apple about this.
I'm having the same problems on my 2 day old 13' rMBP. So surely its just a software issue? Like others there is no hiccups to the system...it juts gets quite annoying when it pops up when all you're doing is scrolling around Safari. 
I can not believe Apple hasnt fixed this yet.
This is more important than mail app as it is a core functionality of os that that doesnt work without it its pretty much unusable, or extremely hard to do work.
Now im reinstalling ml and will go back when its fixed.
This is more important than mail app as it is a core functionality of os that that doesnt work without it its pretty much unusable, or extremely hard to do work.
Now im reinstalling ml and will go back when its fixed.
Curious if people experiencing this still have the problems when starting in Safe Mode. It's always possible that a 3rd-party background utility you have is not quite compatible with Mavericks.
Then again, I'm still on ML, and waiting until at least 10.9.1 before I upgrade. The 10.x.0 releases have always been historically rough around the edges, to varying degrees.
Then again, I'm still on ML, and waiting until at least 10.9.1 before I upgrade. The 10.x.0 releases have always been historically rough around the edges, to varying degrees.
I just found a way to guarantee a massive multi-minute beachballl session
Garageband has a new feature, the AI drummer that is part of Logic.
One of the features of this drummer AI is if you have an existing song where you perhaps used a drum machine and you can check "Follow" to have the AI drummer to follow the general structure of the drum track you originally had in your song so you can have a nice "real drummer" sounding version of what was in your song before.
If you have a lengthy song and you tell the kick and snare to follow your original drum track. WOW.
It took my Corei7 2.8 ghz iMac with 16 gigs of 1333 mhz memory and created a ten plus minute spinning beachball session.
Unreal. I guarantee this would even slow down the brand new multicore Mac Pro in the same way.
Some definite tightening up of some code needs to happen. Wow.
Garageband has a new feature, the AI drummer that is part of Logic.
One of the features of this drummer AI is if you have an existing song where you perhaps used a drum machine and you can check "Follow" to have the AI drummer to follow the general structure of the drum track you originally had in your song so you can have a nice "real drummer" sounding version of what was in your song before.
If you have a lengthy song and you tell the kick and snare to follow your original drum track. WOW.
It took my Corei7 2.8 ghz iMac with 16 gigs of 1333 mhz memory and created a ten plus minute spinning beachball session.
Unreal. I guarantee this would even slow down the brand new multicore Mac Pro in the same way.
Some definite tightening up of some code needs to happen. Wow.
My 2012 iMac and MacBook Air are both beachballin pretty frequently, I'm trying a clean reinstall on the Macbook right now, since I do not have any files on it. Hopefully it helps, but Im thinking this is a bug in Mavericks.
Same Finder slowness on my mid-2011 Air
And it's a clean install of Mavericks.
Can't wait for the fix.
And it's a clean install of Mavericks.
Can't wait for the fix.
Haven't noticed a slowdown per se, but the several broken features in Mail.app and the recurrent spinning beach balls have been a drag.
I have decided to go back to ML 10.8.5 until 10.9.2 at least.
The beach balls, finder slow downs, finder crashing, and overall finder glitches is too unbearable.
The beach balls, finder slow downs, finder crashing, and overall finder glitches is too unbearable.
The solution given here worked for me:
http://osxdaily.com/2013/11/13/fix-finder-slow-high-cpu-use-mac-os-x/
The only caveat is that it didn't seem to work right away for me. But after doing a restart everything was great. Finder was back to normal.
Update: OK, I retract that. The spinning ball did go away in some apps when opening folders but it is still happening in some others. Back to being mystified.
http://osxdaily.com/2013/11/13/fix-finder-slow-high-cpu-use-mac-os-x/
The only caveat is that it didn't seem to work right away for me. But after doing a restart everything was great. Finder was back to normal.
Update: OK, I retract that. The spinning ball did go away in some apps when opening folders but it is still happening in some others. Back to being mystified.
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Couple of things to check for people
I am testing a setting in network connections.
When on an ethernet connection, I set the ip6 config from auto to link local-only. this seems to have helped a bit, even when attaching from mail.
Problem is as many know, upon restarts the issue is certainly more prevalent. I cannot understand why this glaring issue is still here. Finder is simply the most used item on my dock, email attachments, and saving docs/pdf's I do so many times a day- it becomes frustrating watching those folders having to repopulate.
I have not a clue why this is acting the way it is. Called apple, of course the answer was wipe the hard drive and start over, so tired of those BS answers from them.
I may just take it in to the genius bar- hand it over and tell them to call me when it is working. Let them fix the damn thing.
I am testing a setting in network connections.
When on an ethernet connection, I set the ip6 config from auto to link local-only. this seems to have helped a bit, even when attaching from mail.
Problem is as many know, upon restarts the issue is certainly more prevalent. I cannot understand why this glaring issue is still here. Finder is simply the most used item on my dock, email attachments, and saving docs/pdf's I do so many times a day- it becomes frustrating watching those folders having to repopulate.
I have not a clue why this is acting the way it is. Called apple, of course the answer was wipe the hard drive and start over, so tired of those BS answers from them.
I may just take it in to the genius bar- hand it over and tell them to call me when it is working. Let them fix the damn thing.
Update
Generally under most use Mavericks works decent on my machine except a few specific circumstances (the previous Garageband follow track feature although it seems like that has sped up since the first time I tried it - maybe the first time it's caching everything?) and shutting down.
Don't know about you guys but are you finding it takes minutes to shut down if you ever need to shut your computer down?
Generally under most use Mavericks works decent on my machine except a few specific circumstances (the previous Garageband follow track feature although it seems like that has sped up since the first time I tried it - maybe the first time it's caching everything?) and shutting down.
Don't know about you guys but are you finding it takes minutes to shut down if you ever need to shut your computer down?
I've been having similar problems with my 2011 iMac (Core i7 3.4ghz 16GB 2GRadeon HD6970M) Finder takes 10-15 secs to change directory, slower when 'saving as', constant beach ball bingo etc.
I followed the restart, cmd-r, repair disk & permissions, restart, and now my finder and the machine in general is faster than it's been in yonks!
Thanks guys! Much appreciated, hope it works for others, nothing worse than a geologically slow Finder!!!
I followed the restart, cmd-r, repair disk & permissions, restart, and now my finder and the machine in general is faster than it's been in yonks!
Thanks guys! Much appreciated, hope it works for others, nothing worse than a geologically slow Finder!!!
While we're having problems, Apple Discussion makes it sounds as if we're a very small percent of people with issues. Today iTunes crashed and it will not loaded even after removing the preference folder. Before the crash I had a spinning Beach Ball and I lost my mouse cursor (pointer). Control+Tab I was able to switch to finder. Finder was moving very slow until I forced closed iTunes. After doing that, well...
I finally thought to see if anyone else was having this problem...startup excruciatingly slow, blank finder windows for seconds before files appear, beachball beachball beachball.
I've got a year-old Mac Mini with 16GB RAM.
What I find amazing is how the Apple sheeple all immediately proclaimed Mavericks the most AWESOME AMAZING thing to ever hit the planet when it's the most bug-ridden release yet...wake up, people...another example of Apple core rot.
I've got a year-old Mac Mini with 16GB RAM.
What I find amazing is how the Apple sheeple all immediately proclaimed Mavericks the most AWESOME AMAZING thing to ever hit the planet when it's the most bug-ridden release yet...wake up, people...another example of Apple core rot.
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My late 2010 definitely runs slower. Boots slower.
Finder definitely slower.
Problems with scanning on Workforce 840 printer when image correcting manually. Opening the scanned image icon,with an already corrupted thumbnail freezes my computer. Never did any of this before Maverick.AppleCare working on it. But I digress. Next AppleCare call will be to get my machine running faster.
Still slow after a reinstall after trying to solve the scanner issue. Arrrgh!
Finder definitely slower.
Problems with scanning on Workforce 840 printer when image correcting manually. Opening the scanned image icon,with an already corrupted thumbnail freezes my computer. Never did any of this before Maverick.AppleCare working on it. But I digress. Next AppleCare call will be to get my machine running faster.
Still slow after a reinstall after trying to solve the scanner issue. Arrrgh!
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