El Capitan GM - Finder extremely slow?

[jadot]

Beach ball all the way and the iMac won't restart. Restart will crash the finder and mean the only way to reboot switch the power button.

Safari is s-l-o-w-w-w. Finder is having trouble doing simple tasks. Like typing this!
Dropbox syncing seems to be part of the problem, but then nearly all apps take forever to load up.

This is after a replacement drive (iMac fusion replacement program) - am I just being an idiot blaming El Capitan here?

 

[SoyCapitanSoyCapitan]

Beach ball all the way and the iMac won't restart. Restart will crash the finder and mean the only way to reboot switch the power button.

Safari is s-l-o-w-w-w. Finder is having trouble doing simple tasks. Like typing this!
Dropbox syncing seems to be part of the problem, but then nearly all apps take forever to load up.

This is after a replacement drive (iMac fusion replacement program) - am I just being an idiot blaming El Capitan here?

If you load a folder with a dozen or so heavy TIFFs and choose thumbnail/icon view then you'll realise there's no improvement here over Yosemite. It takes ages to generate thumbnails or it just gives up trying.

The Finder should have been updated for the modern era, for modern data, for modern file sizes, but it is stuck in 2006.

 

[Eithanius]

Beach ball all the way and the iMac won't restart. Restart will crash the finder and mean the only way to reboot switch the power button.

Safari is s-l-o-w-w-w. Finder is having trouble doing simple tasks. Like typing this!
Dropbox syncing seems to be part of the problem, but then nearly all apps take forever to load up.

This is after a replacement drive (iMac fusion replacement program) - am I just being an idiot blaming El Capitan here?

Even for menial tasks, Finder has been slow since Mavericks. It got worse on Yosemite before El Cap's Finder returned to Mavericks level... But it's still not good... The last speedy Finder was in Snow Leopard...

 

[maxsix]

I've found El Capitan pretty good so far. Yet I most certainly agree with prior posts here about the Finder. It makes me wonder why it's seemingly low or not even on Apples list of tasks. A speed increase would be terrific.

 

[Ebenezum]

While El Capitans Finder is better than Yosemite I'm still disappointed that 10.11 didn't made as substantial improvements to speed and stability as I was hoping. Snow Leopard is still much faster.