Delay in Files Opening in Finder Window

[schwine1]

I have a Mac Pro tower with Snow Leopard, and there is a long delay, sometimes 5-6 seconds long, before files open up after being clicked on within the Finder window. The delay happens with any file, such as a MS Word file, .jpg file, .pdf file, whatever. The result is always the same - a long delay before the file opens. It doesn't seem to matter if the file is large in size or not. Before the Mac Pro I had a G5 and it opened files much faster than this brand new Mac Pro.

Is there a fix for this problem?
Thanks for any tips.

 

[xgman]

I see this to some extent and it wouldn't appear to be a hardware or memory problem, but may more likely be related to some add on or extension that is taking time to load.

 

[Zortrium]

I've had this problem on my aluminum MacBook for weeks (really horrendous Finder performance with ridiculous amounts of lag -- it started either immediately or shortly after I upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard). I posted a topic on it awhile back and didn't have any luck finding any solutions. As I said, it seems like it should be a conflict with some installed software, but as far as I know I've installed exactly the same set of software on my other computer (an iMac i7) which exhibits none of these symptoms. If I had to guess, I'd imagine that reinstalling Snow Leopard would likely fix the problem, but that's a big enough hassle that I haven't found the time to try it on my machine. My MacBook seems to be 100% fine apart from the godawful Finder issues, so I'm pretty baffled by the problem. I'm sure that it's a Finder problem and not a hard disk problem, because everything is perfectly snappy when I do it in Terminal, it's just doing stuff through Finder that sucks rocks.

If you have any luck fixing this (with or without reinstalling Snow Leopard), do let me know.

 

[xgman]

I'm suspecting either a "services" extension, some customization or add on that is refreshing upon launching a finder window. Once launched changing directories within the window is instantaneous however. Do you have anything other than the default items on the finder toolbar? I also have a fat storage drive shortcut on the sidebar. I have a houdaspot icon and maybe one or two others. I have a clean SL install on the same mac pro on a different partition so I;ll see if that has the same issue.

 

[schwine1]

Make Adjustment in Finder Preferences

Navigate to: Finder - Preferences - General.

At the bottom either un-check "Spring-loaded folders and windows" or move the slider to the "Short" end.

This remedy seems to be working for now.

A note at the bottom of the General window within Finder Preferences also says: "Press the space bar to open immediately."

I find the space bar often works but not every time. At times I have to re-try the space bar option. But, in general, the space bar is quite fast to open files (when it works!).