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Q: Os X Mavericks Finder Problem

Finder is completely glitching out for no reason. First of all, when I click icon view, none of my icons appear. Also, when I clikck the normal organized folder view, none of my folders are clickable. This is really frustrating! I have restarted my computer, restarted finder, and repaired disk permissions, but this keeps happening! I thought Mavericks was supposed to be a better operating system. Is there anything I can do to fix this? 

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 22, 2013 7:05 PM

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  • by Lonny Eachus,

    Lonny Eachus Lonny Eachus Nov 10, 2013 12:08 PM in response to alexander922
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    Nov 10, 2013 12:08 PM in response to alexander922

    In regard to the problem most people have been reporting here, that is, finder being glitchy in certain ways, I think I know the cause, and it should be ridiculously easy for Apple to fix.

     

    I first noticed a different symptom (of the same problem): when viewing a list of pictures in CoverFlow, if I deleted some pictures, the image cache did not refresh... it still showed the images associated with the deleted files.

     

    I changed the "arrange by" and that did indeed solve the problem. But here's the thing: clicking on a column header changes the displayed order in Finder... but does not update "arrange by" as it should. I think when they built the new-style column headers in Finder, they neglected to make them update "arrange by".

     

    As a result, your Arrange By settings are lost, and clicking the column headers does not fix it. You have to actually go into "arrange by" to fix it.

     

    Note that after you do that, clicking the column headers to change the sort order still does not change your "arrange by" setting as it should. But as long as it is on something other than "none", most of the problems go away.

  • by Peter Foss,

    Peter Foss Peter Foss Nov 10, 2013 6:39 PM in response to Simon Accent
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    Nov 10, 2013 6:39 PM in response to Simon Accent

    I am having same issue with finder.  However my Arrange was already set to Name.

     

    My biggest issue is with Mail.  It is full of glitches, which come and go.

  • by JonMoore,

    JonMoore JonMoore Nov 11, 2013 1:42 PM in response to Peter Foss
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    Nov 11, 2013 1:42 PM in response to Peter Foss

    Finder is also giving me problems.  I cannot see many files in Finder anymore even though they show up in terminal where expected.

     

     

    This is really really basic stuff.  Apple must have no real testing.  Microsoft would not mess this up so badly with Windows.

  • by Lonny Eachus,

    Lonny Eachus Lonny Eachus Nov 11, 2013 2:10 PM in response to JonMoore
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    Nov 11, 2013 2:10 PM in response to JonMoore

    After some more experimentation, it turns out that my theory might not have been the whole answer. There seem to be a number of different but related problems. I am no longer sure of the root cause.

     

    Setting "arrange by" to "Name" instead of "None" did indeed solve the CoverFlow problem I was seeing, but it introduced other problems. I didn't have these problems when I was running Mountain Lion.

     

    It does indeed seem like the Finder "improvements" got rushed out the door incomplete. I am a big fan of Agile incremental development but the end user should not have to take the place of the QA department.

  • by Parrish Jones,

    Parrish Jones Parrish Jones Nov 11, 2013 3:39 PM in response to alexander922
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    Nov 11, 2013 3:39 PM in response to alexander922

    I solved all my problems a few days ago, by:

    1. shutting down the computer.

    2. Restart holding down Command R until the Apple logo appears.

    3. When a window appears with four options, one of which is restore, select restore.

    4. it will walk you through the rest.

     

    Everything I was having trouble with: hard drives not showing, files not showing, all sorts of weird stuff happenings, and miserably slow performance are now cured.

  • by Mike From O'ahu,

    Mike From O'ahu Mike From O'ahu Nov 24, 2013 12:39 PM in response to alexander922
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    Nov 24, 2013 12:39 PM in response to alexander922

    I'm having an annoying issue with finder:

     

    Whenever I'm in quicklook mode browsing through image files, finder resets on its own after browsing any given number of images. e.g. - I'll have my view in list mode and I'll open up a file in quicklook and travel down the files, after about ten images it resets and my whole screen goes blank with the exception of my desktop picture.

     

    Very frustrating as it never used to do this :/

  • by Cristinaimad,

    Cristinaimad Cristinaimad Nov 26, 2013 11:27 AM in response to Peter Foss
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    Nov 26, 2013 11:27 AM in response to Peter Foss

    The first issue I noticed with Finder was that it took what seemed like forever to display the contents.  Then my most annoying problem was Finder via Mail. I have attachments that I need to open with a different application than the one suggested.  So when I click on open with....and the finder opens up.....the app I want to use is grayed out, and no matter how many times I click on it, it simply won't open. It's as if it doesn't exist.  Interestingly enough, some applications display their content and some don't.  The content which appears is selectable.

    So I tried the pfile thing,...nothing.  Then i tried organizing by name or none...nothing.  After I reorganized by name, all apps were now black and selectable...except that when I click on the app i want to use to open the file, nothing actually happens.

    I have to download the file. And open the file via the application. 

    I can no longer select the file first and then choose the application!!!!!


  • by Parrish Jones,

    Parrish Jones Parrish Jones Nov 27, 2013 4:25 AM in response to Mike From O'ahu
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    Nov 27, 2013 4:25 AM in response to Mike From O'ahu

    Try instructions two posts back by me. It cured all my problems.

    I solved all my problems a few days ago, by:

    1. shutting down the computer.

    2. Restart holding down Command R until the Apple logo appears.

    3. When a window appears with four options, one of which is restore, select restore.

    4. it will walk you through the rest.

     

    Everything I was having trouble with: hard drives not showing, files not showing, all sorts of weird stuff happenings, and miserably slow performance are now cured.

  • by Lonny Eachus,

    Lonny Eachus Lonny Eachus Nov 27, 2013 9:00 AM in response to Parrish Jones
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    Nov 27, 2013 9:00 AM in response to Parrish Jones

    This is only a partial answer. There are a number of options in the Recovery menu. Which did you use? Did you re-install the OS?

     

    A "destructive" solution is no good to me.

  • by Parrish Jones,

    Parrish Jones Parrish Jones Nov 27, 2013 3:38 PM in response to Lonny Eachus
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    Nov 27, 2013 3:38 PM in response to Lonny Eachus

    Read number 3 again. Of the four select 'restore'.

  • by Lonny Eachus,

    Lonny Eachus Lonny Eachus Nov 27, 2013 3:44 PM in response to Parrish Jones
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    Nov 27, 2013 3:44 PM in response to Parrish Jones

    THAT'S ONLY A PARTIAL ANSWER.

     

    Is "restore" destructive? Does it just "restore" my OS files and leave everything else alone?

  • by petermac87,

    petermac87 petermac87 Nov 27, 2013 3:47 PM in response to Lonny Eachus
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    Nov 27, 2013 3:47 PM in response to Lonny Eachus

    That is what restore does. But you had better be sure you have a backup......just in case.

     

    Cheers

     

    Pete

  • by Parrish Jones,

    Parrish Jones Parrish Jones Nov 28, 2013 7:02 AM in response to petermac87
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    Nov 28, 2013 7:02 AM in response to petermac87

    As far as I could tell it changed nothing. I went right back to work as usual. Given the difficulties you are having and I was having. it's worth doing.

  • by petermac87,

    petermac87 petermac87 Nov 28, 2013 7:11 AM in response to Parrish Jones
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    Nov 28, 2013 7:11 AM in response to Parrish Jones

    I'm not having any difficulties. All my Macs have been running fine since installing Mavericks.

     

    Pete

  • by digorydoo,

    digorydoo digorydoo Dec 9, 2013 9:58 AM in response to Parrish Jones
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    Dec 9, 2013 9:58 AM in response to Parrish Jones

    I think upgrading to Mavericks was a bad idea. I'm having lots of annoying troubles. First of all, it's extremely slow. Startup takes about 30 secs, and the HDD keeps rattling for another 30 secs after login. Shutdown is even slower, it sometimes takes up to 3 minutes! Quicklook is also rather slow for large images.

     

    Finder search for file extensions doesn't work any more. If you want to find all JPG files in a folder hierarchy, you're at a loss. Only the names without the extensions are indexed.

     

    The power button doesn't work any more. It just blanks the screen. Luckily, there's the old CTRL+Eject shortcut.

     

    The right mouse button doesn't work reliably any more. Some clicks just vanish into thin air. Extremely annoying!

     

    The Finder has redraw bugs concerning the toolbar. It also rarely crashes.

     

    And what are the cool new features? I'm haven't seen any. Tags? Pretty useless, I think. What else?

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