Finder items slow to appear in Mavericks?

When opening a finder window the folders appear quickly but contents can take 30 seconds to appear. Any folder, happens through Open File within other apps, and Attach file in Mail. Only has happened since installing Mavericks. Any ideas?

I spent  one month in bloody-**** with this issue.
As far as I know, some people in the forums are having "freezing finder / all day beach ball of death / Fusion drive / SSD slowness..." with Mavericks and the thing that these people have in common is an SSD Disk.
So... maybe if you check out  "About this mac / System Information / SATA / SSD / Trim Support" and enable this one if isn't you'll finally solve the problem, it worked for me.
You can enable it by Terminal, but all the codes I got were for Developer Preview betas, so tried this app and worked like a charm: http://chameleon.alessandroboschini.it/index.php
Hope you can solve it, 'cause I had worst month ever!

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