Mac OSX Finder is a resource hog for moving lots of files

Submitted by greggles on

I'm backing up all my files so I can move to a new machine and Finder has been:

  1. Telling me estimates as high as 45 hours and as low as 2 minutes and sitting with about the same amount of progress bar remaining.
  2. Using a ton of CPU. For copying files. Why?
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