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I am now! Thanks for contributing to the thread; I was just about to do a clean install. Cheers!

I'll be damned. I just tried disabling Avira, and the problem vanished. I wonder what commenced it?

Interesting. Had you been running Avira before the issue started? If so, when did the conflict occur? I, too, run Avira but have never had any issues with it.

I am not running High Sierra; I am running Sierra. So the issue seems not limited to HS, which for me was a horror before I downgraded back.

After VLC updated from 2.2.6 to 2.2.8 it became very slow to open video files. The larger the file, the slower it opens, as if it is scanning or verifying them or something. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling, and then I tried using Time Machine to reinstall the older, properly working version. T...