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bloke99 Author

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finder windows

I have a 2011 macpro and am stuck on High sierra - In the top finder menu the 6th item is “windows”. When I click it I see 27 items listed. But when rebooted only 18 came back. Can I do something to make it so all 27 will come back after rebooting?

Or to put it another way, I had 27 finder windows open. When I rebooted only 18 came back. I then closed 12 of the windows leaving 15 finder windows open. I rebooted and only 10 came back on reboot. It seems that the system only open certain folders and ignores the others. Is there any way to change that so the exact folders that I want to reopen will reopen?

Thanks.

MacBook Pro

Posted on Jan 7, 2022 7:24 AM

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BDAqua

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Posted on Jan 7, 2022 7:34 AM

Start with this...

Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at startup), does the problem occur in Safe Mode? Could take 10 minutes.

Safe mode attempts to repair Disks & clears lots of caches & loads safe Drivers, & prevents loading of 3rd party extensions, so if Safe Mode works try again in regular boot.

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bloke99 Author

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Jan 18, 2022 11:34 AM in response to BDAqua

That was not the keyboard but the lacie usb drive.

It is still odd that booting from the internal disk preserves all of the finder windows but from the external disk it does not. Any ideas how to fix that?

bloke99 Author

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Jan 18, 2022 6:06 PM in response to BDAqua

FYI - I took out all of the symantec files last time as you requested and it did not make any difference. But I wanted to have norton protection so I reinstalled it. Also, it is important to note that symantec is installed both on the external disk and the internal disk. And whereas the external disk did not return all finder windows, the internal disk did, even with symantec installed. So I think that symantec is not the problem.

Also, I know it says the disk is failing and in fact the internal disk did fail many months ago. So I replaced it with a brand new drive. After a couple of months the disk crashed and I had to reinstall everything. This is why I am booting eternally as I just use the internal drive as a back up now. I do not want to take the chance of it crashing. But despite all of this, this internal disk still returns all of the finder windows. So I do not think that is the problem. By the way, the external drive has never crashed so far.

With that said this is the latest EtreCheck link: <script src="https://pastebin.com/embed_js/Gt4Ef9XW"></script>

What do you suggest that I do next?

BDAqua

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Jan 9, 2022 1:23 PM in response to bloke99

Have you emptied the Trash?

Low disk space - This computer is running critically low on free hard drive space.

How much Free space do you have on you drive... Get Info on Macintosh HD.

BDAqua

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Jan 10, 2022 11:46 AM in response to bloke99

Failing hard drive - This computer has a hard drive that appears to be failing.

You can use Drive DX to possibly get a better view of Drive health…

https://binaryfruit.com/drivedx

bloke99 Author

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Jan 13, 2022 11:23 AM in response to BDAqua

Hi, This is a snap shot of memory. What can I do next to try to solve this problem?

BDAqua

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Jan 18, 2022 10:46 AM in response to bloke99

Is it a USB 3 bus powered drive that wants 900 mA, or a USB2 drive that can use the 200 mA max of tour 2011 Mac?

System Report>Hardware>USB...

bloke99 Author

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Jan 7, 2022 8:02 AM in response to BDAqua

Wow... I had asked apple support and many others who had said there was nothing I could do and was about to give up. But your simple solution solved the problem.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!