Hello everyone! I have tried everything but nothing seems to work. Everytime I start my Macbook pro up Finder opens up to MacOS File. Does anyone know how to fix this?
Thank You!
Mac OS will always reopen any Finder window that was left open on shutdown. It was like this long before Lion and the Resume feature.
Make sure all Finder windows are closed before you shutdown/restart.
When I shut down all windows are closed, but finder persists to open anyways. Is there anyway to find why it still opens?
Thanks
Got the same issue here also. even tried unticking the box on shutdown.
Try pasting this command into Terminal (be careful not to select any extra space either at the beginning or end of the command):
mv ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist ~/Desktop
Press 'Return', then restart the computer.
If this works, you can delete the file that appears on the Desktop. Notice that you may need to reset some of your Finder preferences.
If it doesn't work, do not delete the file that appears on the Desktop. Instead, return the file to where it came from and restore all your Finder prefs by pasting this command into Terminal:
mv ~/Desktop/com.apple.finder.plist ~/Library/Preferences
Then press 'Return' and restart the computer.
Tried what you have posted but no luck.
OK, you should have more luck with this one:
mv ~/Library/Saved\ Application\ State/com.apple.finder.savedState ~/Desktop
Press 'Return'. Then restart the computer.
NB: ensure there's no Finder windows open again before you restart!
Message was edited by: softwater
Didn't work ether. Before I restarted the finder was closed but still had a dot in the dock. The finder is alway running and cannot be shut down, is this correct?
No joy for me. I found my lappy doesnt go on standby when plugged in either contrary to energy saver settings.
Never been an issue before. How do you rollback the update.
I installed 10.7.3 update then I found the manual pack update in the news and installed. What a balls up!
The finder is alway running and cannot be shut down, is this correct?
Correct. Your computer needs to have a means to start up. Finder is the designated way on Mac OS. Finder will be shut down as you shut down the computer.
Let me just get this right:
1. You ran this command in Terminal and pressed return
mv ~/Library/Saved\ Application\ State/com.apple.finder.savedState ~/Desktop
2. Closed all Finder windows
3. Restarted the computer
and then a Finder window was already automatically opened on restart? That doesn't sound possible!
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Can you try this, without restarting the computer:
1. Close all Finder windows.
2. In terminal, paste or type this (*note: if you type it, make sure 'Finder' is capitalized, i.e, not 'finder')
killall Finder
Then press 'Return'.
Does the problem window re-open on the desktop or not?
Message was edited by: softwater
From this post:
Before I restarted the finder was closed but still had a dot in the dock. The finder is alway running and cannot be shut down, is this correct?
I'm not sure at all if OP is still talking about an actual open window or just the fact the there is the triangle under the Finder icon in the dock........
When restarting, and after you sign into your account and then once you get to your desktop the finder will open. I have done the steps you have suggested. Can't figure this out I never had this problem with snow leopard. This what it looks like.
I vaguely remember reading through a post that implicated Steam in this. It is only because I see that it is Steam in your screenshot that I remembered seeing it. I don't know if there is an update or workaround to stop it.
Out of curiosity: why is it that you have no applications in your Applications folder? Instead, I see Mac OS in the Applications folder and it seems to contain what your System folder should have. Here is a screenshot of my Applications folder:
It appears you changed the file hierarchy of the OS which is not really recommended.
Macjack101 wrote:
I have done the steps you have suggested. Can't figure this out I never had this problem with snow leopard.
Yes, but you didn't say what happened after doing 'killall Finder'.
That test was supposed to tell us whether the problem is with Finder, or something launching Finder.
If after doing 'killall Finder' the window doesn't appear (as I suspect), then the problem is that something is causing Finder to run and open that window on boot up.
I think Barney's already half onto it with his suggestion about Steam, but what you do is remove everything from here
> System Preferences... | Login Items
Then restart. Problem solved? Then add them all back in one at a time, restarting after each addition, till you find the culprit.
Given Barney's tip, you might start by just removing 'Steam' first, as that appears to be a known problem-causer.
Secondly, you should take note of what Babowa says above. Don't mess with the file hierarchy, especially not in Lion, which is far more touchy about things being where Apple says they should be than earlier iterations of OS X.
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