Finder not responding after update to Ventura

Also happening to me 3-4X/day since June 7, when I updated to 13.4 Sometimes happens when I have to force quit an other app (like Time Machine quirking out, inexplicably, or anything involving Adobe CC), which snowballs to Finder not responding and needing a FQ. Finder evaporates from the desktop and is non-functioning on the Dock.

I'm seeing several suggestions involving Terminal and/or manually deleting system files/user preferences. This kind of instability crap pretty much went away after the 90s.

I have been experiencing the same issues that everybody is commenting since Ventura upgrade, but for me there is a particular problem that I'm not able to open any finder windows for some periods of time, and just after a while I able to use finder again, no matter how many times I relaunch or kill the finder service, still not able to open trash for example, because when I click nothing happens and to get into finder I have to use Show All option, not able to to get the finder windows just clicking the finder access in the dock, and is the same issue in all the other profiles and even new profiles as well.

Cannot load safe reboot at start up. System does not recognize or respond. What I have found for most solutions is that there is a presumption that Finder is somehow operative but not functioning correctly. MY FINDER is simply not there which prevents me from every solution offered so far.

I updated from Monterey to Ventura. Update went fine no issues and Finder is completely stuck in beach ball mode. I forced quit 50 times, did restart 10 times. I reloaded Ventura 3 times. I can't select anything in settings as they don't function. Other noteworthy, none of my desktop files showed up on the desktop after update and I can't save to the desktop, screen shots don't show up on the desktop, goes to desktop file. I have tried every suggestion and will be going back to Monterey as reading the comments I am not alone.

I also am noticing Finder stops responding. I thought it might be from the anti-virus, so I uninstalled that. But this started happening right after the last security patch. I am on 13.13.1

As info, 13.4 was released today to the general public.

How can you do this Randall if Finder is not working?

I am in this situation too, so what can we do?

No luck here. Finder will not respond at all!! Please help!!!

Problem still persists even after using this option > open Terminal and then just rm that plist

did it fix finder-not responding?

What's the "Dock"?

ignore that, just being dim. I do know what the dock is