Mavericks Cover flow in Finder gets lost

Sounds like the Finder preferences are corrupted ...

Open the Finder. From the Finder menu bar click Go > Go to Folder

Type or copy paste the following:

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist

Click Go then move the com.apple.finder.plist file to the Trash

See if that made a difference.

Having the same problem as are many others, hopefully apple will recognise this issue and fix.

Also having this same problem. Extremely frustrating.

I tried deleting the plist, and restarting finder, and it worked for a while, then got lost again. Seems like the internal pointers are getting messed up

I use Cover Flow for working through thousands of files, and with it not working is causing me major grief!

Apple pleas fix

Same problem here. Any time I move a file, it gets messed up. To fix it, just change your view from Cover Flow to one of the others and then switch back. Pain in the neck, but it works. I hope Apple fixes this really soon. And I wish they'd bring back color labelling in addition to Tags.

Folks, please report the problem here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

The more of us that do it, the more likely the issue will get fixed.

Had a long session on the phone and remote viewing of my computer by Apple with a senior support person who was able to duplicate the problem on his computer at Apple. He said to look for a software update to fix this in a week or two. Was very thankful to have it brought to their attention—definitely passing it on to the techs to fix.

Pesonally, I think that they kind of ignored Cover Flow when updating the finder. I can't save a .psd unless I switch out of cover flow while navigating to where I want to save the file, otherwise the save as diolog disappears.

Nov 23rd and still no fix. This has really disrupted my workflow.

I had the same problem in photoshop with the save as dialog box dissappearing. Apple says it is an adobe issue, and to contact adobe. I noticed that I can sitll save in cover flow view as long as my folders are not expanded. I had to click the little triangle on the left to collapse the folders and then the dialog box remains.

Several of my applications (adobe acrobat, CAD) often crash (and need to be Forsed Quit) when I try to open a file using Cover Flow. AutoCAD release the following advisory:

AutoCAD crashes or file navigation dialog boxes close unexpectedly in Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)

Issue

AutoCAD crashes or the open dialog boxes close unexpectedly while using Open or other file navigation dialogs in AutoCAD on Mac OS 10.9 (Mavericks).

Solution

This happens when you use Cover Flow view mode in a dialog box and navigate across folders. This issue will need to be corrected by Apple in a future Mavericks update.

To work around this issue, do not use the Cover Flow view mode in file navigation dialog boxes such as Open, New, Save, External Reference attach, PDF attach, Image attach, Import, Export, etc.

This is particularly annoying when trying to select a particular graphic file to work on. I wind up opening a finder window in Cover Flow to find the particular graphic I want to open and then looking for the file name in List View in the Open diaglog box.

Looks like Apple just fixed this problem in their OS X Mavericks v10.9.1 Update.

It's funny however that they don't netion it in their notes:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6065?viewlocale=en_US

That's probably because it's rediculus that they would release a new OS with such an obvious bug.

Oh well, I'm gald its fixed as it was a real pain in the @#$.

10.9.1 still hasn't fixed my problem. Coverflow still gets lost on early 2013 13" rmbp and early 2013 15" rmbp.

I have an additional problem (After 10.9.1 update) - still have the coverflow problems

- but now I also have occasional word files that are listed in finder (I have done a complete rebuild) but these are upopenable - they list as "The Document Name or Path is not valid. Try one of more of the following ....."

However, the file will open in textedit !!!

If I didn't love Macs so much I'd move back to Windoze

Nick