I am experiencing the following issue in Finder on OS X Yosemite 10.10.5.
After working for sometime heavily on it, usually about 10-15 minutes, navigating in directories, moving/copying renaming files, it starts becoming slower and slower, and the spinning wheel starts appearing, making the whole process of working with it too slow.
I am working on a MacBook Pro 2009, with SSD from Crucial, 8 GB RAM. I have reset permissions, checked for the files structures on the disk, tested the SSD for possible problems with disk utilities/diagnostic software, deleted Finder preferences. The issue started only recently and didn't have such issues in the past.
If I restart the computer, Finder is working fine again, until I 'll start to work intensively with it again.
I have the Finder spin logs available if anyone would like to have a look on them.
Command: Finder
Path: /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder
Version: 10.10.5 (10.10.5)
Build Version: 1
Project Name: Finder_FE
Source Version: 932006003000000
PID: 459
Event: spin-lite
Duration: 4.50s (process was unresponsive for 2 seconds before sampling)
Steps: 46 (100ms sampling interval)
Hardware model: MacBookPro5,4
Active cpus: 2
Fan speed: 1996 rpm
Heaviest stack for the main thread of the target process:
46 start + 1 (libdyld.dylib + 13769) [0x7fff8ca3b5c9]
46 ??? (Finder + 25186) [0x10c592262]
46 NSApplicationMain + 1832 (AppKit + 12868) [0x7fff81629244]
46 -[NSApplication run] + 594 (AppKit + 551667) [0x7fff816acaf3]
46 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 346 (AppKit + 593496) [0x7fff816b6e58]
46 _DPSNextEvent + 978 (AppKit + 596139) [0x7fff816b78ab]
46 _BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInModeWithFilter + 71 (HIToolbox + 205099) [0x7fff8118c12b]
46 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 179 (HIToolbox + 205294) [0x7fff8118c1ee]
46 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 235 (HIToolbox + 206191) [0x7fff8118c56f]
46 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 296 (CoreFoundation + 465880) [0x7fff8bafdbd8]
46 __CFRunLoopRun + 872 (CoreFoundation + 467336) [0x7fff8bafe188]
46 __CFRunLoopDoObservers + 368 (CoreFoundation + 524416) [0x7fff8bb0c080]
46 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_AN_OBSERVER_CALLBACK_FUNCTION__ + 23 (CoreFoundation + 524583) [0x7fff8bb0c127]
46 __83-[NSWindow _postWindowNeedsDisplayOrLayoutOrUpdateConstraintsUnlessPostingDisabled]_block_invoke1540 + 46 (AppKit + 8167793) [0x7fff81df0171]
43 _handleWindowNeedsDisplayOrLayoutOrUpdateConstraints + 936 (AppKit + 607858) [0x7fff816ba672]
43 -[NSWindow displayIfNeeded] + 236 (AppKit + 608777) [0x7fff816baa09]
43 -[NSView displayIfNeeded] + 1876 (AppKit + 610734) [0x7fff816bb1ae]
43 -[NSView _displayRectIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectForView:] + 2761 (AppKit + 906891) [0x7fff8170368b]
43 -[NSThemeFrame _recursiveDisplayRectIfNeededIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectForView:topView:] + 333 (AppKit + 922355) [0x7fff817072f3]
43 -[NSView _recursiveDisplayRectIfNeededIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectForView:topView:] + 6043 (AppKit + 929696) [0x7fff81708fa0]
43 -[NSView _recursiveDisplayRectIfNeededIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectForView:topView:] + 913 (AppKit + 924566) [0x7fff81707b96]
43 -[NSView _recursiveDisplayAllDirtyWithLockFocus:visRect:] + 1875 (AppKit + 933114) [0x7fff81709cfa]
43 -[NSView _drawRect:clip:] + 397 (AppKit + 935816) [0x7fff8170a788]
43 -[NSView(NSLayerKitGlue) _drawRectAsLayerTree:] + 517 (AppKit + 961624) [0x7fff81710c58]
43 CA::Transaction::commit() + 390 (QuartzCore + 58286) [0x7fff8d7913ae]
43 CA::Context::commit_transaction(CA::Transaction*) + 242 (QuartzCore + 58898) [0x7fff8d791612]
43 CA::Layer::layout_and_display_if_needed(CA::Transaction*) + 35 (QuartzCore + 61057) [0x7fff8d791e81]
43 CA::Layer::display_if_needed(CA::Transaction*) + 603 (QuartzCore + 63485) [0x7fff8d7927fd]
43 -[_NSViewBackingLayer display] + 834 (AppKit + 401446) [0x7fff81688026]
43 _NSBackingLayerDisplay + 617 (AppKit + 414763) [0x7fff8168b42b]
43 CA::Layer::display_() + 1546 (QuartzCore + 70716) [0x7fff8d79443c]
43 x_blame_allocations + 81 (QuartzCore + 120468) [0x7fff8d7a0694]
43 ___ZN2CA5Layer8display_Ev_block_invoke + 59 (QuartzCore + 120535) [0x7fff8d7a06d7]
43 CABackingStoreUpdate_ + 3306 (QuartzCore + 123847) [0x7fff8d7a13c7]
43 -[NSView(NSLayerKitGlue) drawLayer:inContext:] + 108 (AppKit + 1021075) [0x7fff8171f493]
43 -[NSView(NSLayerKitGlue) _drawViewBackingLayer:inContext:drawingHandler:] + 2407 (AppKit + 1023505) [0x7fff8171fe11]
43 __46-[NSView(NSLayerKitGlue) drawLayer:inContext:]_block_invoke + 218 (AppKit + 1024360) [0x7fff81720168]
43 -[NSView(NSInternal) _recursive:displayRectIgnoringOpacity:inGraphicsContext:CGContext:topView:shouldChangeFontReferenceColor:] + 1186 (AppKit + 1025865) [0x7fff81720749]
31 -[NSControl drawRect:] + 342 (AppKit + 1028897) [0x7fff81721321]
31 ??? (Finder + 3166554) [0x10c89115a]
31 -[NSTextFieldCell drawWithFrame:inView:] + 238 (AppKit + 2033498) [0x7fff8181675a]
31 +[NSAppearance _performWithCurrentAppearance:usingBlock:] + 79 (AppKit + 416440) [0x7fff8168bab8]
31 __40-[NSTextFieldCell drawWithFrame:inView:]_block_invoke + 436 (AppKit + 2034179) [0x7fff81816a03]
31 ??? (Finder + 964673) [0x10c677841]
31 ??? (Finder + 966106) [0x10c677dda]
31 -[ACCFinderInnerExtension ACCFE_drawInteriorWithFrame:inView:] + 174 (ACCFinderInnerExtesion + 22262) [0x10ccc16f6]
31 -[ACCFinderInnerExtension getFullPath:] + 43 (ACCFinderInnerExtesion + 20080) [0x10ccc0e70]
30 -[ACCFinderInnerExtension accProfilePath] + 62 (ACCFinderInnerExtesion + 19828) [0x10ccc0d74]
30 -[ACCFinderInnerExtension refreshAccProfilePath] + 84 (ACCFinderInnerExtesion + 19433) [0x10ccc0be9]
19 getPrefs(NSArray*) + 65 (ACCFinderInnerExtesion + 11106) [0x10ccbeb62]
16 -[NSConnection rootProxy] + 68 (Foundation + 743166) [0x7fff82c866fe]
16 _CF_forwarding_prep_0 + 120 (CoreFoundation + 706968) [0x7fff8bb38998]
16 ___forwarding___ + 518 (CoreFoundation + 707622) [0x7fff8bb38c26]
12 -[NSConnection sendInvocation:internal:] + 2095 (Foundation + 749052) [0x7fff82c87dfc]
12 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 296 (CoreFoundation + 465880) [0x7fff8bafdbd8]
9 __CFRunLoopRun + 1371 (CoreFoundation + 467835) [0x7fff8bafe37b]
9 __CFRunLoopServiceMachPort + 212 (CoreFoundation + 470708) [0x7fff8bafeeb4]
9 mach_msg_trap + 10 (libsystem_kernel.dylib + 70878) [0x7fff8beb84de]
*8 ipc_mqueue_receive_continue + 0 (kernel + 1144832) [0xffffff8000317800]