Archive for May, 2016

OSX slow folder updates

Saturday, May 28th, 2016

Has the process of populating your OSX El Capitan folders become very slow?

OSXDaily has a fix based on the original hashbang discovery.

 

The applications folder on my Mac recently (post 10.11.5 update) started taking 20 to 30 seconds to populate.

Deleting the files via:

rm ~/Library/Caches/CloudKit/CloudKitMetadata*

then force stopping cloudd in the Activity Monitor did the trick…