Fileproviderd >95% CPU usage + Finder not responding
I am incredibly frustrated at the lack of support on this question, considering it has been asked MULTIPLE times, and has received "Me Toos" by over 500 people in total. I will describe my situation exactly:
One day I was trying to download an image and access it in Finder. All of a sudden finder brings me the colorful spinning wheel of death and fileproviderd is using 99% CPU.
To echo a post that received no support:
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My Finder is not responding anymore.
The items on my desktop are not organised anymore.
I also noticed that Fileproviderd is at 100% CPU usage.
When I open Spotlight Search it is indexing, I left it running for hours but only little progress.
Already restarted the computer, removed Google Drive, OneDrive etc.
When starting up in Safe-Mode I have the same problem.
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My machine:
Apple M2 Pro
Mac OS 14.3.1 (23D60)
It does NOT fix the issue to go into activity monitor and try force quitting `fileproviderd`, `Finder`, or anything seemingly related. All that happens is that the processes then restart with the same issue. It does NOT fix the issue to boot it up in safe mode, the same problem exists. It does NOT solve the problem to install a software update — my computer is unable to restart itself when Finder is not responding!!
I also even unchecked iCloud, completely removing its sync from my computer, and the same problem persists after multiple reboots and resets.
Please help fix this issue and report it as a bug internally to the hardware teams. This is incredibly blocking and I can't use my computer anymore.
Thanks
MacBook Pro 14″