Finder window always opens on start up.

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Finder window always opens on start up.

Whether I am starting up or restarting, when I login then a finder window always opens on the desktop. Why? Is this now normal behavior for the finder? Is there a way to stop it?

Intel iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.7), 2.0 GHz, 2 GB RAM

Posted on Aug 2, 2009 8:53 AM

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Answer 1

V.K.

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Aug 2, 2009 11:36 AM in response to iGreg

do you have anything at all in your login items? sometimes other apps will open a finder window like that. see this thread for example
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9849876&#9849876

also check out this link
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20081211164016390

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bdmarsha

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Aug 2, 2009 11:17 AM in response to iGreg

In my experience, whatever windows that you have open in the Finder upon logout will reappear on the next login (to the same account) in the same positions. Therefore, if no Finder window is open when logging out then a window should not appear on login unless some other process that you have set to open at login also opens a Finder window.

bd

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bdmarsha

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Aug 2, 2009 11:19 AM in response to iGreg

In my experience, whatever windows that you have open in the Finder upon logout will reappear on the next login (to the same account) in the same positions. Therefore, if no Finder window is open when logging out then a window should not appear on login unless some other process that you have set to open at login also opens a Finder window. Perhaps automatically connecting to a server at login might do this but I am not sure.

bd

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bdmarsha

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Aug 2, 2009 11:25 AM in response to iGreg

In my experience, whatever windows that you have open in the Finder upon logout will reappear on the next login (to the same account) in the same positions. Therefore, if no Finder window is open when logging out then a window should not appear on login unless some other process that you have set to open at login also opens a Finder window. Perhaps automatically connecting to a server at login might do this but I am not sure.

bd

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bdmarsha

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Aug 2, 2009 11:29 AM in response to iGreg

In my experience, whatever windows that you have open in the Finder upon logout will reappear on the next login (to the same account) in the same positions. Therefore, if no Finder window is open when logging out then a window should not appear on login unless some other process that you have set to open at login also opens a Finder window. Perhaps automatically connecting to a server at login might do this but I am not sure.

bd

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iGreg Author

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Aug 2, 2009 11:30 AM in response to iGreg

It is not sorted out, it turns out Cocktail did not fix the issue.

However, I think I found the cause. SOHO Notes Services. When I disable SOHO Notes Services completely, and it is no longer in Accounts-Login Items, then the Finder window does not open automatically on login. I reported issue to Chronos.

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den.thed

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Aug 2, 2009 9:41 AM in response to iGreg

Hello iGreg

Go to: System Preferences > Accounts > Login Items and remove Finder from the list of items the will open automatically when you log in.

Dennis

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iGreg Author

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Aug 2, 2009 10:51 AM in response to iGreg

The Finder was not listed in my Accounts-Login Items.

I deleted caches and the DS files using Cocktail. The window no longer appears on my desktop when logging in.

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iGreg Author

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Aug 2, 2009 10:58 AM in response to iGreg

It is not in Accounts-Login.

Deleting caches and DS files with Cocktail seemed to work, but on subsequent restart/logins the finder window keeps appearing automatically.

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den.thed

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Aug 2, 2009 11:11 AM in response to iGreg

Glad to hear you sorted it out!

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Answer 11

iGreg Author

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Aug 3, 2009 4:30 PM in response to iGreg

Unfortunately Chronos says they can not reproduce this issue. But it is definitely SOHO Notes Services. As long as it is disabled there is no problem, no Finder window appears.

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