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Mountain Lion Folder Issues

After upgrading to Mountain Lion on my Retina MBP, I have had trouble navigating in Finder. When I select "Documents" in the sidebar, it just opens into the sidebar I was in prior (lets say "Music" for the sake of the question).

I've tried repairing permissions, killing Finder, restarting - nothing seems to fix this really odd behavior. I literally can't get into my Documents folder even by navigating to Users/username/Documents.

Any help would be appreciated. This is driving me mad.

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Jul 27, 2012 3:09 PM

26 replies

Aug 6, 2012 4:54 PM in response to relativeculture

Sorry nothing yet. I'll keep looking.

Aug 6, 2012 5:03 PM in response to relativeculture

Definitely a bug, I can't reproduce it here.

Submit a report here

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

To esure that Apple knows of the issue.

Aug 8, 2012 2:12 PM in response to actionmarker

Just submitted with the appropriate links. I will reply back if I receive any information on it from the team. If not, lets all hope it happens with the next patch and that they are aware of it.

Aug 13, 2012 11:07 PM in response to relativeculture

Hopefully this will be thrown into the next patch. By chance, has anyone found a fix yet?

Aug 17, 2012 6:52 PM in response to relativeculture

I have not seen anything yet. Just waiting for a patch to come out.

Aug 18, 2012 7:47 AM in response to relativeculture

Weird. Have you tried command dragging the shortcut out of the sidebar and re-adding it?

Aug 20, 2012 6:14 PM in response to the0pticnerve

I've tried. To be honest, I'm going to rollback to Lion. I have tried so many options my head is spinning. I know it is a small issue, but in the scheme of workflow it messes with the way my mind works 😕

Aug 21, 2012 12:51 PM in response to relativeculture

Have you tried moving the Finder sidebar prefs and forcing it to create a new one? Much easier than 'dowbgrading' IMHO. ;-) Just about everything on the OS has at least two pref files; one for the standard System settings and another in each users Library. All you have to do is navigate to yours and move it to the Desktop. Restart the app and it will create a new, fresh one. In the case of the Finder, you'll have to 'kill' it in a slightly different way. One easy way is to use the "Force Quit" function.

Aug 21, 2012 1:20 PM in response to xairbusdriver

This was also posted on the YouTube video. Problem solved! Big thanks to xairbusdriver and arkiefyler from YouTube for the tip.

INSTRUCTIONS

1. From desktop select "Go" in the menu bar and type "~/Library/Preferences/" without the quotes.

2. Move the com.apple.sidebarlists.plist to your desktop.

3. Open terminal and type "killall Finder" without the quotes.

4. Voila, problemo solved until it gets a patch, or maybe it is just a preferences anomoly that only a few were hit by.

This is a load off.

(UPDATE: After a brief lapse, the Desktop sidebar icon will still revert to display the applications folder, etc. The problem was alleviated, but not solved yet. 😟 )

Aug 21, 2012 1:34 PM in response to relativeculture

I think you'll have the problem as long as you stick with icon view. Try one of the other choices, they both supply much more info about the file/app/whatever than the simple pictures do, anyway. There is soon to be an update to ML, but I have no idea if this bug is addressed or not. Sorry.

BTW, it's often handy to have your user Library available without the steps of using the "Go to..." hoops. Just use that method one more time to display your Library (preferably in List or Columns View... hint, hint) and then drag the Library folder into your sidebar. It will be there until you upgrade or drag it out of there. ;-)

Sep 2, 2012 9:06 AM in response to relativeculture

I downloaded 10.8.1 from the App Store. Did a clean reinstall with it and so far it is working great.

Mountain Lion Folder Issues