How to make my finder widows appear after lion installation?

Hi.

After clicking Finder in the Dock, key Command + N just like it has always been, or Menu bar>File>New

Have fun 😉

Adrian

Having the same problem... this doesn't work.

I had the same problem I think becuase I had finder assigned to a space in SL. One thing to try it right click on the finder in the dock then options assign to this window.

I have this same problem and I've done a little investigating and found some additional information though not a fix. First off, I never assigned Finder to any Space. Now, I had decided to have a desktop, a full-screen Mail, and a full-screen browser open at all times. Here's the thing. I can click the trash or Finder and nothing SEEMS to happen. But WHILE I use the three finger switch from the desktop to one of the full-screen programs, I can see my Finder windows there for a brief instant. Once the switch is made to that other window though, they disappear again. Futher, I've used Get Info on the Macintosh HD on my desktop and that Info pane does not appear. But when I use the three finger page switch, it, like the other Finder windows, does appear. I have held the switch in slow motion and been able to position my pointer just right so that I can close the window but IT IS A PAIN. This is not an anomoly; this is a TRUE BUG. My Finder is GONE and I have no way to explore the file system. We need Apple to address this issue.

When I right-click on Finder in the Dock, I do not have an Options item listed. I have the four Finder Windows that I've opened but cannot get to, New Finder Window, New Smart Folder, Find..., Go to Folder, Connect to Server, Show All Windows and Hide. This was working the other night because I was able to open Finder and do an Air Drop with my MacBook Pro.

File>New worked for me and even clicking Finder worked for me for the first two days of Lion. Now nothing works other than animating the switch between desktops when the Finder windows show up until the switch animation is complete and the next desktop or full-screen program or Dashboard is displayed. Then the Finder windows disappear again.

I finally got mine to work... click and hold on finder... select "options" and then "assign to"... "this desktop" and it fixed it...

I found a fix - at least for my case... I STILL do not get the Options menu selection when I right click OR click and hold Finder on the Dock. Here's what I did though that seems to have worked for now:

System Preference > Mission Control. I unchecked everything except Show Dashboard as a space. I RESTARTED and now I can see my Finder windows. One other change that I made (to be thorough since I'm not sure WHICH one made the difference) is I opened the Hot Corners dialog and assigned SOMETHING to every corner. Make SURE to reboot after making the change. I closed System Preferences and tried Finder before restarting and still got nothing. Decided to reboot on a hunch and it worked!

When I installed Lion I had something assigned to every corner but then with LauchPad, I had decided I didn't need something and unassigned that corner. If I'm not mistaken, that was about the time that the Finder issue started. I know I wasn't having an issue with Finder before that because I opened it and did an Air Drop file transfer with my MacBook Pro to check out that feature. I have no idea if this resolves my problem for the long haul but at least I can see my Finder window right now - wait.... Yep, it's still working so far.

Here is what worked for me.

Right click on the Finder icon in the dock, Select Options and choose ALL Desktops.

Hope this helps....

VS

I had this problem for a while, too. Both on my 2010 iMac 27", and on my 2006 MBP 15". I tried most things, like force quit/finder relaunch etc, and most of those solutions worked for a while, or at best until the next reboot.

Then I booted in safe mode as WallaceT suggested, and after restarting again, the problem appears to have been solved! Not sure why or how it works either, but so far so good. Even after a reboot/sleep mode/etc.

I take it back. It doesn't work. Not after a while, anyway. Sorry.

Well I believe I have found the solution. I like many others was not able to see and use my finder window even though I could "see" it while scrolling between desktops and full screened apps. I tried the solution of clicking on the finder icon in the doc and selecting "options", but I did NOT have this available. I used the temporary fix of: alt, command, esc: and relaunching finder, only to find that after reboot the problem was still there.

So, like Rettogo stated above, go to: System Preferences>Mission Control> and UNcheck "Automatically rearrarange spaces based on most recent use". This was the only change I made, did a reboot, and finder window is now visible and usualble.

I think the problem exists since in SL I had assigned finder to a "space" and after the installation of Lion, those assignments did not fluidly translate. Hope this works for all.

If you don't have Options available when you right click the Finder icon in the dock, you have to add another desktop ("space") from Mission control.