What is Finder doing when it has a spinner in the bottom-right?

Posted by rspeicher on Super User See other posts from Super User or by rspeicher
Published on 2010-06-18T01:52:55Z Indexed on 2010/06/18 1:54 UTC
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Whenever I open a folder on a remote network share that hasn't been opened since I last booted, Finder displays this animated spinner in the bottom-right (see picture below) for about 30 seconds and won't display any of the folder's contents until it's done doing whatever it's doing.

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This makes browsing the share painfully slow for seemingly no reason. Why's it doing this? I should note that I've disabled .DS_Store files littering network shares using defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true, so maybe that's why. I'm kind of hoping it's something else, though.

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