![]() What should happen is that, as the search is refined, the previous search is terminated and its partial search results are cleared from memory, which reduces the amount of memory used by the Finder. Add the second character y and the rate of memory use slows sharply, as there are far fewer hits, and after the third character z there should be even fewer. As those are being delivered to the Finder, its memory use grows rapidly. ![]() When you’ve just typed the first character s there are likely to be hundreds of thousands of hits. The more files that Mac has in its Spotlight database, the more hits are likely, and in some cases their number can be vast.įor example, let’s say you start typing the word syzygy, which should have very few hits. ![]() The amount of memory used each time is determined by the number of ‘hits’ obtained at that moment. What happens is that each of those searches is retained in memory, rather than being purged when a new search is started. When you set a Finder window into Find mode and start typing characters into its search box, the Finder launches an interactive search which homes in more narrowly as you type additional characters. If you never ever use the Finder’s Find feature, then you can stop reading here, as you won’t encounter this bug. It only affects the Finder’s Find command (in the File menu), and doesn’t affect Spotlight itself, or third-party products which use Spotlight search, such as Find Any File or HoudahSpot. As it affects one of the key features of the Finder, if you use the macOS GUI sooner or later you’re likely to come across it, and for some users it’s severe. This memory leak affects all models of Mac, both Intel and M1, running any version of Monterey from its initial public release 12.0.1 to the latest update 12.4. If you’re thinking of upgrading from Big Sur to Monterey when Apple releases macOS 13 this autumn/fall, you might like to think twice, as there’s a major memory leak which may well remain in Monterey for ever. One popular plan to avoid bugs introduced in a new major version of macOS is to use the final release of the last one.
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