Q: Yosemite Finder bug, folders get unresponsive in icon view

I took my MBP 15" 2012 in for this EXACT issue a couple days ago.

After replacing my screen, logic board and hard drive - the problem persists.

This is DEFINITELY an issue with Yosemite, and will hopefully get taken care of in the next update.

Workarounds:

- Switch to list view

- Force Quit (relaunch) finder

Don't bother bringing your gear in, there is literally nothing they can do.

Nick101, thanks for this! It's working so far.

Addit: Problem is back. Deleting plist is temporary fix.

Curses!

Here's another possibility: trash the Finder cache - ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.finder - trash the entire folder and relaunch Finder

I tried all five of nick101's suggestions above and I still have the problem. The Applications folder always appears empty. Occasionally others appear empty, though relaunching the Finder fixes that. For the time being I'm simply using either the dock, Spotlight, my BetterTouchTool settings, or when needed, Terminal.

I had a long chat and phone call with Apple last night and they want to call back today. No solution so far. The problem is limited to icon view so you may be able to use the finder but other than icon do youi

I have the problem with all views (but as I've said, only with the Applications folder).

I think it's a Yosemite bug on Retina Displays. I have it only with Retina Macs but with any folder and not just Applications. It is very annoying but sadly we can't fix it unless Apple does it.

PDXMICAH!  At least you got a new computer out of this! Lol!  

Same problem, hope to Apple figure out the problem and fix it asap by an update.

Same problem here... actually if there is any possibility, I am thinking of returning back to Mavericks.

Haha, this is very true!

I had a question for everybody experiencing this: do you all have Adobe Creative Cloud installed?

Through the many clean reinstalls I had in trying to fix this, I never experienced the issue until I started installing applications, the first of which was Adobe.

Yes, exactly I was thinking the same. Before Adobe Creative Cloud I don't remember to experience the issue.

I don't have that program installed and it's happening to me.

I did create a test profile on my system and used it for about an hour without any extra software added and the finder problem did not happen once.  My wife's macbook (running different software but was upgraded to yosemite) does not have this problem.  It is not a Retina and I suspect Retinas have this problem for some reason.

I have another phone call scheduled with Apple tonight but I think it will be info gathering for them.

I may start one by one introducing programs on my test profile I created tonight to see when it starts.  Then again, it could just be a bug buried in Yosemite but it seems odd by test profile hasn't done it.  Also, it would not do it when I booted into safe mode including in my "bad" profile.

Do you have Dropbox installed? Google Drive? I'd definitely start testing there.

I had this issue before in Mavericks (but much worse) that was temporarily remedied by quitting Dropbox. I wonder if it's a cloud-syncing thing? Dropbox, Drive and Creative Cloud all use a desktop folder that automatically syncs to the online service.