Applications Folder Slow

[coastertux]

I have a MBP w/ 2 GB RAM and I have noticed that my Applications folder seems slow - when I click on it in Finder it takes a few seconds to come up. Everything else in Finder is responsive. Any ideas as to what is causing this?

 

[mad jew]

How many apps do you have? What view are you using?

 

[coastertux]

I have about 100 apps and I am using the icon view.

 

[mad jew]

Okay, is the slowness unique to the Applications folder? Any other slow Finder instances?

 

[coastertux]

Once an a while other Finder instances are slow, but the Apps folder is consistently slow.

 

[M@lew]

I think this is just due to the amount of apps you have in there. Mine is also slow as I have 253 apps, but after going to it a few times it speeds up because Finder doesn't have to look through it as much.

 

[brianus]

Yeah, this is pretty typical for OS X. Not really sure why -- maybe because of the (slightly) extra work the OS has to do, making .app folders look like files and figuring out what icon they should use. But I can confirm that whether I'm using an old G4 mini or a Mac Pro, the more apps you have, the more that particular folder slows down.

 

[Poncho]

Still drives me mad, and it's 2010. With a 3.0Ghz mac.

 

[jennyp]

Still drives me mad, and it's 2010. With a 3.0Ghz mac.

Do you have FinderPop installed? It seems like it can slow the applications folder in some cases:

http://www.fnarr.net/fp/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=98#p526