Calculating App sizes on Startup

Each time I startup my Mac, I hear the hard drive spinning and the computer's less responsive than usual. I finally found that it's going through all the apps in the Applications folder and calculating their size, plus possibly indexing my drive. I'm sure it's calculating other things size as well. Sometimes this goes on for several minutes. Is this normal? Is there any way to stop it? It seems like it would just remember the size from the last shutdown.

Open the Applications folder, CMD+J, and deselect size (only available if the folder view is set to list). That should fix it for that folder. If any others are also set that way, change them.

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