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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?

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Posted on Jan 7, 2022 7:24 AM

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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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Jan 13, 2022 9:02 AM in response to bloke99

Thanks, 32 GB is cutting it short btw.

Open Activity Monitor in Utilities>Memory tab.

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Jan 13, 2022 7:22 PM in response to BDAqua

Are you saying memory is not the problem?

Also, are you asking for another EtreCheck (I have sent you two so far but I can send another if you want it)?

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Jan 14, 2022 11:46 AM in response to bloke99

The amount of Memory does not appear to be your problem.

An Etrecheck report may or may not help, but not much else to go on for clues. :)

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Jan 16, 2022 8:33 AM in response to BDAqua

Is there anything else you can think of to help solve this problem?

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Jan 16, 2022 10:35 AM in response to bloke99

An etrecheck report will not expose any private data, if you're still worried you can contact me on my site...

https://x704.net/bbs/

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Jan 18, 2022 10:02 AM in response to bloke99

I boot off external drives & have never seen this problem.

Is the external drive Bus powered or does it have it's own AC power?

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Jan 18, 2022 10:07 AM in response to BDAqua

The drive is bus powered.

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Jan 18, 2022 10:07 AM in response to bloke99

It is a 2 TB lacie SSD

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Jan 18, 2022 10:57 AM in response to BDAqua

It is usb2 and this is what it says:

Current Available (mA): 500

Current Required (mA): 100

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Jan 18, 2022 11:18 AM in response to bloke99

OK, that shouldn't be the cause then, but just checking, that wasn't for your Keyboard correct?

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