How To Fix Finder High CPU Usage & Slowness On Mac OS X Mavericks - Application Finder is a file manager that is contained in OS X, and the application is one of the oldest features of the Mac operating system and is still there, which has been around since Mac OS was launched. Despite this feature already long standing, a lot of users who have been upgraded to OS X Mavericks have found several weird behavior with Finder, where it can be very slowly and sluggish to do when it is used, in fact when perform anything.
A few small investigation via Activity Monitor, a special way to discover that the Finder uses process CPU is too high, is at a rate between 80% to 200% - again, Finder seems to doing what one heavy or overwhelming. Once you experience this problem on a Mac that has been updated to version 10.9 from 10.7 and 10.8 (Maybe it does not make you become a clean mac), To solve this problem, has found a reliable way to cope with the amount of CPU usage and speed issues with the Mavericks Finder: Find plist file and forced it to rebuild.
Step 1 : From Desktop or OS X Finder, type the following command "
Command + Shift + G" to display the "Go To Folder" and enter the following path:
"~/Library/Preferences/"
Step 2 : Find the file named "com.apple.finder.plist" and then move it to the desktop (You should copy the file) - this serves as a backup to keep the possibility bad that happens
Step 3 : Next, remove the file com.apple.finder.plist contained in
~ / Library / Preferences / folder
Step 4 : Open the Terminal application and run it, you can find it in
/ Applications / Utilities / and then type the following command : "
killall Finder"
Actually deleting files com.apple.finder.plist, function to reset the Finder to the original settings. This means you need to reconfigure the Finder preferences, to do that you can go to
Finder> Preferences. This includes setting the new standard windows, tabs, what you want to appear on your desktop, sidebar items, change search preferences, the file name extension, etc.
However, other than the above methods, you also can use the terminal, to find and remove com.apple.finder.plist, then forced to relaunch the Finder application. But keep in mind use the terminal only for people who have experienced.