Finder hung?

So I'm trying to find some pics and click on a folder (column view) and it takes FOREVER for Finder to list the folder.
Checked Activity Monitor and com.Apple.IconServicesAgent is using 99+% of the CPU.
Does this every once in a while. A restart fixed it. Is this a bug? Used Onyx about a week ago.
Any thoughts?

Found several posts about it. The only answers I've found point to a rogue app. Can be tough to find unless it's an item you have launching at startup. Only app I've seen actually named is SnagIt.

Only thing I can think of is maybe Xtrafinder. Will quit it and see what happens.
I'm only using it to sort folders first in Finder. I doubt it's Dropbox but we'll see.

I've seen the occasional hang in Finder. Spinning beach ball, but eventually it sorts out and I get on with whatever I was doing. I, too, have Dropbox, but I can't imagine why that would mess with Finder. For reference, I use List view almost exclusively, if that matters.

Wouldn't think it would be either of those - use both of them myself and don't think I've ever noticed that process, so it would have to be sitting somewhere at the bottom of the lists.

cradom said:

Only thing I can think of is maybe Xtrafinder. Will quit it and see what happens.
I'm only using it to sort folders first in Finder.

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Sounds like this might be the culprit as it would be interacting directly with Finder as it works to list files/folders. Was it updated recently?

How many pictures are we talking about in this folder? Might it have something to do with the raw number of files that icons have to be drawn for?

57 .tiff files (scans) about 4mb each. Not getting beachballs, just spinning daisy at bottom of window.
It was updated about a month ago I think. I've got it shut off and will see if it happens again.

I wonder if the size of the tiff files is slowing down the rendering of icon previews. If you change views, do you see the same kinds of waits?

Don't know, I use column view exclusively, and it's not doing it now.
Funny it doesn't do it on the Macbook and it's set up the same as far as startup items.