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Hi
I have been looking for a solution on this and cant seem to find how to show toolbar.
The command cd+opt+T doesnt do anything.
Restarted and nothing changed.
And the sidebar is always in hide mode.
I just dont understand how to fix this.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Air M1 12.0.1 Monterey
saicho wrote:
I am really baffled by your answer. Why do you assume that the finder is not open?
I am obviously trying to locate something like a document or music or whatever and for that i open finder.
What is weird and random is that on some occasions the toolbar at the top is visible.
It just doesn't make sense..
—Try simply relaunching the Finder window on the fly,
>Force Quit>Finder>Relaunch
—If it is a corrupt plist try deleting it and relaunching or reboot to test
delete the com.apple.finder.plist
Found here Finder>Go>Go to Folder copy and paste:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
Relaunch your Finder from the >Force Quit>Finder>Relaunch
If no insight or resolve
To trouble shoot further you can:
—Try a SafeBoot https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262
Takes noticeable longer to get to the login screen, does a 5 minute disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, including dynamic loader cache, etc.
Login and test. Reboot as normal and test. Caches get rebuilt automatically.
In Safe mode third party system modifications and system accelerations are disabled, it removes malware, etc hampering smooth operation, however a reboot will put it back to normal mode.
This test will tell you if third party interference; extensions etc are not loaded in safe boot mode.
—Test issue in another user (or guest user) account https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/set-up-other-users-on-your-mac-mtusr001/mac
This will tell you if it a universal issue or isolated to your user/admin account.
Uninstall all third party apps that are Cleaners/Optimizers/VPN/Anti-Virus— all known to cause issues on the macOS
saicho wrote:
I am really baffled by your answer. Why do you assume that the finder is not open?
I am obviously trying to locate something like a document or music or whatever and for that i open finder.
What is weird and random is that on some occasions the toolbar at the top is visible.
It just doesn't make sense..
—Try simply relaunching the Finder window on the fly,
>Force Quit>Finder>Relaunch
—If it is a corrupt plist try deleting it and relaunching or reboot to test
delete the com.apple.finder.plist
Found here Finder>Go>Go to Folder copy and paste:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
Relaunch your Finder from the >Force Quit>Finder>Relaunch
If no insight or resolve
To trouble shoot further you can:
—Try a SafeBoot https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262
Takes noticeable longer to get to the login screen, does a 5 minute disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, including dynamic loader cache, etc.
Login and test. Reboot as normal and test. Caches get rebuilt automatically.
In Safe mode third party system modifications and system accelerations are disabled, it removes malware, etc hampering smooth operation, however a reboot will put it back to normal mode.
This test will tell you if third party interference; extensions etc are not loaded in safe boot mode.
—Test issue in another user (or guest user) account https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/set-up-other-users-on-your-mac-mtusr001/mac
This will tell you if it a universal issue or isolated to your user/admin account.
Uninstall all third party apps that are Cleaners/Optimizers/VPN/Anti-Virus— all known to cause issues on the macOS
I am really baffled by your answer. Why do you assume that the finder is not open?
I am obviously trying to locate something like a document or music or whatever and for that i open finder.
What is weird and random is that on some occasions the toolbar at the top is visible.
It just doesn't make sense..
Here is some more info.
I open a tab, lets say documents or music, then i go to view>show toolbar is greyed out.
Then is choose customise toolbar, the toolbar appears plus the menu with all the drag and drop icons. I click "done" the toolbar now is visible.
But then if i go back to view>hide toolbar is greyed out.
And if i open another tab the toolbar is obviously not there.
Another peculiarity is now that i have the toolbar back i wanted to show tabs so i turned them on from view>show tab bar.
Then when i opened a new tab (+) the toolbar disappeared.
Then i force quit and relaunch and toolbar returns.
This finder thing has given me headaches from the day one.
Why the inconsistency?....
saicho wrote:
Another peculiarity is now that i have the toolbar back i wanted to show tabs so i turned them on from view>show tab bar.
Then when i opened a new tab (+) the toolbar disappeared.
Then i force quit and relaunch and toolbar returns.
This finder thing has given me headaches from the day one.
Why the inconsistency?....
See the post above, I presented a path forward to resolving your Finder issues.
It will always be grayed out if there is no Finder window present. An application's file chooser or save panel is not actually a true Finder window that can be enabled with a toolbar.
macOS 12.0.1.
I cannot duplicate your toolbar issue with an open Finder window on Monterey.
I followed all the steps up to ....plist. and relaunched
and the toolbar reappeared.
Thank you.
Finally a solution that works.
"Show toolbar" in Finder always greyed out
