Unresponsive browsing in Finder

[stianJ]

Suddenly I now get the spinning wheel of death every time I scroll in a folder in Finder. Once I try to scroll down in the folder, it becomes unresponsive for about 10 seconds, then I can try to scroll again, and same thing happenes. This has never happened before, and I don't see why it appears now. Is this a common problem, does anyone know what I can do to fix it?

 

[maflynn]

Dumb question, did you reboot?

I'd also run the Disk Utility to repair your drive, it may be data corruption on the drive itself that is causing problems.

 

[stianJ]

I have rebooted, and also run Disk Utility, it didn't find any errors..

 

[maflynn]

Is it a specific folder or all folders?

Did you try using the Terminal to see if you can navigate to that folder and issue the ls command?

 

[stianJ]

It's all folders. I have now changed the setting under General > Show scroll bars to always. Then it only hangs when I scroll to the bottom or top of a folder. So now I can scroll in the folders, expect when I hit the top or bottom, then I have to wait 10-15 seconds. So frustrating.....

 

[overheated]

suffering the same beachball when rooting through folders in the finder. it is exacerbated when attempting to drag and drop files or folders in the finder.

I have uninstalled both "Google Drive" and "Dropbox" but this has not fixed it. attempted to boot into "Safemode" to assist in diagnosis however I have not been able to get into as others have had issue with in 10.9.

getting rather frustrated.

 

[stianJ]

Same here, can't figure out what the problem is. Never had it before, just suddenly appeared..

 

[stianJ]

Ah, I finally figured it out! Your comment regarding Dropbox and Google Drive helped me. I'm using Synology CloudStation as an alternative to Dropbox, and this application is the problem. I removed it, and now Finder is working perfect. If you also have CloudStation installed, I recommend to remove it!