High CPU Usage on macOS Catalina.... This is very annoying!

Anonymous
2020-03-31T01:33:17+00:00

Hey guys,

I've been feeling very frustrated about OneDrive:

Ever since I've switched to Catalina on my MBP 15", OneDrive keeps spinning up a bunch of processes called "OneDrive Finder Integration", about 5-6 of them and then Finder goes over 130% along with another system-level process. Needless to say, this kicks up the fans to the full speed and, if running on battery, chews up through so much of the battery. The only other way around this is to pause the app which defeats the whole point of having a "cloud" backup. I've looked around, run a bunch of scripts suggested, uninstalled, reset and then reinstalled the app with no success. Can someone help me with this?

BTW, why can't I check my Preferences (where the version number is accessible) when OneDrive is paused?!!! this is just poor planning as far as I'm concerned!

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-03-21T20:54:57+00:00

    Hi Clarke,

    just adding to this.

    Is this problem meanwhile solved.

    I am having the same issues every day with a MacBook air 2019, using one drive .

    I am getting every day the disnoted failure.

    It is one year from your post I am replying to.

    What is the status / solution?

    Thx for your support

    Sascha

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-02-18T18:54:59+00:00

    I'm not sure if I want to jinx this, but I literally just disabled these extensions as you outlined in your post, and within seconds the fan on my computer slowed from jet-engine speed to mini tabletop fan. The CPU % which were spiking with OneDrive/Finder/Disnoted 100%+ almost immediately reduced to sub 20%. I'm impressed with the solve and equally nervous -

    Does anyone have links to articles that explain the function of "Finder Extensions" so I can understand the consequences of disabling?

    Thanks so much for all of the participation on this thread (I know I'm picking this up late!)

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