Mountain Lion Folder Issues

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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

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Answer 1

Jul 27, 2012 3:16 PM in response to relativeculture

Video Showing Problem: http://youtu.be/_AtHLUBcZQk

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Answer 2

Jul 28, 2012 4:47 PM in response to relativeculture

After a clean install, the problem still persists. Any ideas?

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murtop

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Jul 29, 2012 2:49 AM in response to relativeculture

Having the same problems, have to relaunch finder and problem goes away for a bit then comes back. happy I found your post as I was going to fresh re-install os. Have you found any solution yet. I've no doubt we will wait for months for apple to respond. Come to think of it, Lion introduced finder bugs so I rang apple, they told me to do a full clean install. After I did the clean install, they went away. Have you done a full clean install without using back up from time machine.

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Answer 4

Jul 29, 2012 9:31 AM in response to murtop

Nothing yet, but the YouTube video is bringing out more people with the same issue. I have done every maintainance operation available to fix it and still nothing. I can guarantee that it is a legitimate bug and even reinstallation doesn't seem to fix it.

The only thing that offers a little solace is fixing the folder view from tile to in-line. But, I've always used tile view and this is just a pain for me personally. Let me know if you find any new info.

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Jul 30, 2012 4:23 AM in response to relativeculture

Thank you for posting this. I thought I was going crazy. I have repaired disk permissions, quit finder and finally did 2 clean installs and this problem still exist. Lets hope Apple fixes it sooner rather than later.

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parna

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Jul 30, 2012 4:36 AM in response to relativeculture

After the clean install, did you import your user files etc, or just log in to a fresh installation as per a new Mac?

If you did import stuff, have you tried setting up a new test user (System Preferences, Users and Groups and use the plus sign under the text Login Items), login in to see if it still does it in a new account?

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Answer 7

Jul 30, 2012 4:46 AM in response to parna

I did a new clean install. Then redownloaded my apps again from the Mac App Store. As relativeculture pointed out, the problem only happens in folder view. I have not tried setting up a new user yet, I'll post back the results.

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Jul 30, 2012 7:04 AM in response to relativeculture

That is definitely a bug. Does it do the same thing in Folder view? Change views with little buttons upper right of the Toolbar.

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Jul 30, 2012 8:22 PM in response to Gnarlodious

I did a completely clean install using a brand new boot partition and didn't import a thing. The problem is still there. It is definitely a bug as Gnarlodious said.

The problem goes away when you aren't in "icon tile view". However, I'm sure I'm not the only one who's lived on tile view since birth 😉

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parna

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Jul 30, 2012 8:26 PM in response to relativeculture

I did a completely clean install using a brand new boot partition and didn't import a thing. The problem is still there. It is definitely a bug as Gnarlodious said.

Yet it is not that common. I cannot reproduce it, in either a clean install or an upgraded system. Wonder if it is specific to certain models of computer or graphics card?

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Answer 11

Jul 30, 2012 8:46 PM in response to parna

I'm running a 2.6Ghz 2012 Retina.

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Answer 12

Jul 31, 2012 3:57 AM in response to parna

I tried setting up a new user account and the problem is still there. Here are my specs:

21.5-inch, Mid 2011

2.5 GHz Intel Core i5

4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3

AMD Radeon HD 6750M 512 MB

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Answer 13

Aug 2, 2012 10:50 AM in response to timothyfmcdaniel

Has anyone figured this problem out. It's quite annoying and I really don't want to uninstall again or downgrade.

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Aug 2, 2012 8:48 PM in response to timothyfmcdaniel

Nope. I've just been checking this thread. I'm tempted to downgrade because it's really messing with my usual productivity. Lets hope Apple takes notice.

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Answer 15

Aug 5, 2012 8:02 PM in response to relativeculture

Any updates or potential fixes from anyone yet?

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