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Ingridkoala Author

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Finder starts to glitch more often

Finder recently started to have these glitches:

left side of menu bar (at the top of the screen) fails to work. while I am on other apps and attempt to click it, it will immediately change to Finder's menu. However, none of the menu options will be clickable.
desktop icons will be shown over other apps' open windows. menu bar shows that I am on Finder.

Not sure what exactly triggers these glitches. Force quitting/restarting Finder or restarting my mac does help, but the glitches will come up again later on, so these are just temporary fixes. I am on macOS Monterey version 12.1.

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.1

Posted on Feb 8, 2022 8:48 PM

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lllaass

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210,459 points

Posted on Feb 9, 2022 12:48 AM

Try booting to Safe Mode. That boot up takes minutes and clears caches and other things that may resolve your problem.

How to use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support

A lot of times just boot to Safe Mode followed by normal boot resolves problems.

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