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Finder no longer works

I have a situation where the Finder no longer "works."


I can do many things with it, but cannot open a Finder window or display the contents of any folder (i.e. in a finder window).


Attempting to do so, "immediately" results in the spinning beach-ball effect, and "Force Quit" reporting -- "not Responding."

Relaunching clears the "not responding" but does not open or allow to open a window.

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), iMac Core i7 2.93GHz 4GB

Posted on Feb 3, 2013 9:06 AM

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Posted on Feb 3, 2013 9:25 AM

Found the files I was looking for referenced:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3456176?answerId=16600393022#16600393022


using terminal cd ~/Library/Preferences

rm com.apple.finder.plist*


Two Files get deleted.


then "sudo killall Finder" ... and the windows come back again.

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Finder no longer works

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