Show in finder not working in Safari 5.1.3

Just noticed it on mine this week. ***!?

Not sure when and how this was resolved but, I'm running Safari 6.0.2 now and "Show in Finder" is working on my Mac mini now.

I too am on Safari 6.0.2 and the "Show in Finder" option is not working. It doesn't work to single click, double click, highlight then click or right click and select the option.

Just not working!

G

Here's the workaround: http://d43.me/blog/1511/show-in-finder-not-working-in-mountain-lion/

As an aside: OS X is the worlds greatest window manager on top of a Unix-like system. You should NEVER have to reboot for any reason. If a process offends you, restart it.

Most of the time, OS X will restart any process it needs, so all you have to do is kill it, and let OS X restart it for you.

What if that process isn't running?

In Activity monitor for me, if I search for "event", it shows only:

dbfseventsd

System Events

UserEventAgent

There is no "appleeventsd" running...

😕

I lie. It was under "All Processes", and I was just looking at "My Processes"

Sorry!

Can confirm this fix works.

Thanks!

G

As counterintuitive as it may seem, the problem actually *is* a corrupted Finder preferences file (Users/(your user account)/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist). This will cause the little magnifying glass icon that does a "Show in Finder" to not work in multiple applications (e.g. Safari, Transmission, etc.).

Delete 'com.apple.finder.plist' and restart the Finder. You will then (obviously) have to reset all of your Finder preferences.

This is how I fixed the Downloads "Show in Finder" issue in Safari 6.0.2 on my MBP (Mid 2012) running OS X.8.2.

Hi all!

TorontoCarey suggestion was what fixed it for me. I often quit my finder (using a unsupported plist hack) when I do demos. So it seems that when I quit finder and there is an even for finder, appleeventsd seems to get stuck... and killing it fixes the problem. 🙂

Thanks! -Cheers, Peter.

YAY!! thanks for your tip:

sudo killall -KILL appleeventsd

While my previous post about deleting 'com.apple.finder.plist' and restarting the Finder works, the problem returns. So, since restarting '

appleeventsd

Here's how to do it in AppleScript:

tell application"System Events"

do shell script"sudo killall -KILL appleeventsd"password"your_password_here" with administrator privileges

end tell

Put your system password into the script and save it as an application (bottom of AppleScript's Save dialog). Whenever the little magnifier icon stops revealing what it's supposed to in any application, just run this little script. Things will return to normal.

Thank you, very elegant solution!

oops just tried and get ths error:

error "System Events got an error: No matching processes were found" number 1

FIXED. I had to save the scri rther than just testing it in the applescrip editor.