My finder using 101% CPU but why ?

[sa3er]

my system is too slow. why finder is using that much CUP ? can i remove it ?
i'm not happy with my speed

 

[stridemat]

Has the magnifying lens (the finder icon in the top right) got a dot in the middle of it? It could be indexing.

 

[sa3er]

what lens ?
i can't see anything on the top right of finder
its still 100% ...

 

[sa3er]

how i can suspend finder ?

 

[LPZ]

how i can suspend finder ?

You can open Terminal (in Utilities) and enter

killall Finder

Or you could simply log out and then log in again.

 

[GGJstudios]

Has the magnifying lens (the finder icon in the top right) got a dot in the middle of it? It could be indexing.

what lens ?
i can't see anything on the top right of finder

It's actually not an icon in Finder. It's the Spotlight icon, on the Menu Bar.

You can determine if it's indexing by the Spotlight Menu Bar icon:

(not indexing)

(indexing)

You can open Terminal (in Utilities) and enter

killall Finder

Or you could simply log out and then log in again.

... or you could simply Quit Finder and restart.

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[LPZ]

... or you could simply Quit Finder and restart.

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OK, now I'm puzzled! Why don't I have Quit Finder as an option in my Finder menu?

 

[GGJstudios]

OK, now I'm puzzled! Why don't I have Quit Finder as an option in my Finder menu?

LOL! I thought that one would get your attention!

To add a Quit Finder entry to the Finder menu, type this in Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.finder QuitMenuItem -bool yes
killall Finder​

 

[LPZ]

LOL! I thought that one would get your attention!

To add a Quit Finder entry to the Finder menu, type this in Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.finder QuitMenuItem -bool yes
killall Finder​

See, we need Terminal in any case!

 

[notjustjay]

Finder sometimes gets itself spinning in some kind of CPU-intensive loop, for whatever reason or for no reason at all. When it happens, just do as the above posters suggested. It's fairly rare, but it does happen to me every once in a while.

 

[GGJstudios]

See, we need Terminal in any case!

Actually, no. To add Quit to the menu, you only need to do that once and it remains on the menu. You don't need Terminal every time you want to quit Finder. Also, you can restart Finder without ever using Terminal by Command-Option-Esc or  > Force Quit then select Finder and Relaunch.

 

[sa3er]

if i kill finder now my open projects will lost ?

 

[GGJstudios]

if i kill finder now my open projects will lost ?

No, killing Finder only closes the Finder app. You can click the Finder icon on your Dock to restart it. It won't cause you to lose any documents.

 

[glenncal]

An alternative way to relaunch Finder without using the terminal is to right click on the Finder in the dock while pressing the Option key on the keyboard. You will see a Relaunch option.

 

[sa3er]

An alternative way to relaunch Finder without using the terminal is to right click on the Finder in the dock while pressing the Option key on the keyboard. You will see a Relaunch option.

tanx. option trick worked like a charm

 

[LPZ]

An alternative way to relaunch Finder without using the terminal is to right click on the Finder in the dock while pressing the Option key on the keyboard. You will see a Relaunch option.

Thanks. I probably once knew that, but I'm so used to using Terminal now ...

Thanks to GGJstudios for his reminders too.