Finder unresponsive under root user after Sonoma upgrade

[snail22]

Logged in as root after upgrading to Sonoma and Finder crashes immediately upon any action (opening a new window or even clicking a menu). Relaunched Finder, restarted, disabled and reenabled root user, etc. and no luck.

Is there a way to "start fresh" with a completely new root user account? Not sure what else to do.

 

[eugenios]

Maybe it’s because no one tested the “root” account as for to use as a regular administrator user.

 

[chabig]

You're "not supposed" to be logging in as root. There are better ways to do whatever you're trying to do, such as using sudo inside a terminal session.

How to enable the root user or change the root password on Mac - Apple Support

Mac administrators can use the root user account to perform tasks that require access to more areas of the system.

support.apple.com

 

[nollimac]

Whether root or admin, there is an issue with finder been unresponsive or has a slight annoying delay in MacOS 14 and 14.1RC that makes one think it could be Apple's way of weeding out Intel...even if unintended.

 

[gilby101]

Whether root or admin, there is an issue with finder been unresponsive or has a slight annoying delay in MacOS 14 and 14.1RC that makes one think it could be Apple's way of weeding out Intel...even if unintended.

I have not seen any delays with Finder. iMac 2019.

 

[Ryo@ryomac]

Finder becomes unresponsive on my iMac 5K 2019.

 

[nollimac]

14.2 beta fixed my beachballing, finder unresponsive and slight delay as well as preview's opening and closing files...

 

[Ryo@ryomac]

14.2 beta fixed my beachballing, finder unresponsive and slight delay as well as preview's opening and closing files...

really?

I am looking forward to the official release of macOS Sonoma 14.2.
Thank you for the information.

 

[nollimac]

really?

I wan surprised this morning all was well...the first time I am running a beta on my production MBP insteat of a separate partition...the only thing I didn't take note of was the beta id when I first installed it to know whether last night a snapshot had applied...currently I am on 14.2 beta-23c5030f...

 

[snail22]

I tried logging in as root on a fresh installation of Sonoma and had the same issue, so must be a bug. No big deal though since I rarely need to do this, and can always use Terminal as has been pointed out.

 

[richardallan]

I tried logging in as root today & had the same problem. I want to move my User - Movies, Music & Pictures folders to my new external SSD enclosure and replace them in the Users folder with Sym Links. Can I do this with sudo? If so, how?

 

[snail22]

Just upgraded to 14.2 and I don't experience this problem any more, though it's not mentioned in the release notes.

 

[Shivetya]

14.2 beta fixed my beachballing, finder unresponsive and slight delay as well as preview's opening and closing files...

Fixed mine too but now Time Machine is failing as it believes the system is syncing to the cloud when all of that is turned off.