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Q: Os X Mavericks Finder Problem

Finder is completely glitching out for no reason. First of all, when I click icon view, none of my icons appear. Also, when I clikck the normal organized folder view, none of my folders are clickable. This is really frustrating! I have restarted my computer, restarted finder, and repaired disk permissions, but this keeps happening! I thought Mavericks was supposed to be a better operating system. Is there anything I can do to fix this? 

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 22, 2013 7:05 PM

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  • by petermac87,

    petermac87 petermac87 Dec 27, 2013 3:51 AM in response to anobre27
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    Dec 27, 2013 3:51 AM in response to anobre27

    anobre27 wrote:

     

    Lack of moderator in this forum is a problem. petermac87 Is a self centered egotistic troll himself. The best in such cases is to ignore his offensive and useless comments and continue the discussion as if he was not there. All of the other participants were thouthgful and considerate.

    Took you 9 days minimum to think of that? Welcome to the AppleSupport Communities. I will be here if you need any assistance, although you have not mentioned what your problem is, what computer you are using or even what OSX you are running.

     

    Cheers

     

    Pete

  • by anobre27,

    anobre27 anobre27 Dec 27, 2013 4:29 AM in response to alexander922
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    Dec 27, 2013 4:29 AM in response to alexander922

    Dear Considerate User,

     

    I've faced the same problem (Finder malfunctioning under Mavericks), could not find files by extension and erractic searches. It turned out a relatively simple problem to fix. My computer was on for too long (weeks), used heavily, and it appears it got hang up somehow. When I tried to boot it would not complete the turning off, so I had to proceed to a hard boot (hold the start/stop button pressed for several seconds). When it came back I noticed that spotlight was spontaneously re-indexing the system, a symptom it was troubled before. After spotlight indexing finished, Finder worked smoothly and all search blues vanished.

     

    Have a happy New Year

  • by BloomerLudwig,

    BloomerLudwig BloomerLudwig Jan 2, 2014 11:10 AM in response to alexander922
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    Jan 2, 2014 11:10 AM in response to alexander922

    I had similar issues when I first installed Mavericks on my MacBook Pro. It turned out that for some reason I had two versions of "com.apple.finder.plist", one of which had some extra characters in the name. So, like "Sandman" I deleted them, rebooted, and everything seemed fine. Things were a little slow until Spotlight reindexed my disc, but then all was good.

     

    It's worth noting that this happened a second time, but it was taken care of the same way, with the same positive result. Not sure what causes my Mac to create a second version of the plist, though.

  • by Oottat,

    Oottat Oottat Jan 6, 2014 9:39 AM in response to alexander922
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    Jan 6, 2014 9:39 AM in response to alexander922

    I have a general issues with finder. im having to completely revise my muscle memory in utilizing Finder after the latest surge of security updates. 

    Click pause click to rename a file no longer works. (click return bring up file option)

    Click and hold key will no longer drag a file. i hear the ding wave file but nothing happens (Click Hover, count to 5 then and maybe it will drag the file)

    plus several other mouse operation changes.

    I'm using a USB mouse.

     

    Also

    At some point during the day finder will no longer recognise the file extension nor the installed program to read that file.

    Exmple a PDF.

    It will show that the file contains no data (0 byts) and provide an error code when you try to File copy and File paste that file or attemp to drag it into a e-mail.

    Icon will display correct program but the Preview will be grayed out.

    It appers that this may be initiated by opening another finder window in tab mode.

     

    Correction for now:

    Reboot or Rlauch the finder (hold Alt key right click mouse - relauch finder)

     

    Also the mouse hover duration has some how been shortened so that when i try to highlight a file with the intention of just getting a preview it will automatically launch the application. Its like i've turned on a single click is now a double click. Very anoying when im just trying to search through multiple file in an attempt to locate one specific file.

  • by FASTFINGER,

    FASTFINGER FASTFINGER Jan 21, 2014 7:43 AM in response to alexander922
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    Jan 21, 2014 7:43 AM in response to alexander922

    I had the exact problem when I moved up to Maverick  - FINDER missing - if I click on Finder in DOCK the Finder menu bar only flashed for a second then went off screen - no HDD screen icons available ---  did some research, solved problem- just  DUMPED  GOOGLE DRIVE = all is well again!

  • by Oottat,

    Oottat Oottat Jan 21, 2014 8:35 AM in response to FASTFINGER
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    Jan 21, 2014 8:35 AM in response to FASTFINGER

    are yoiu indicating that this may have somethingto do with google drive?

  • by davewagnerart,

    davewagnerart davewagnerart Mar 27, 2014 5:39 PM in response to Lonny Eachus
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    Mar 27, 2014 5:39 PM in response to Lonny Eachus

    Changing how things are arranged worked well for me, thanks for posting.

  • by niket.patel,

    niket.patel niket.patel Jun 1, 2014 1:44 PM in response to alexander922
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    Jun 1, 2014 1:44 PM in response to alexander922

    my finder was not responding for 1-2 mins after switching back to it from another app - everytime. I tried lots of previously posted solutions in this and other discussions.

    After:

    stopping finder App nap,

    disk utility verifying and repair minor problems with the drive,

    safe boot and back to regular login

    deleting and whole load of caches

    deleting com.apple.finder.plist

     

    the only this that worked for me was deleting com.apple.sidebar.plist

  • by lance nickel,

    lance nickel lance nickel Jul 10, 2014 6:20 AM in response to alexander922
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    Jul 10, 2014 6:20 AM in response to alexander922

    Arrange settings? Can you elaborate a little more...Are you referring to the View Options in the top of the Finder window?

     

    I'm having issues with brand new iMac where when I open a Finder window, then go to Applications nothing is listed for a long time.

  • by ddrt,

    ddrt ddrt Jan 23, 2015 6:55 AM in response to alexander922
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    Jan 23, 2015 6:55 AM in response to alexander922

    This thread has devolved. Where are the moderators to clean it up? Do your "job".

  • by audiogora,

    audiogora audiogora Aug 3, 2016 4:01 AM in response to alexander922
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    Aug 3, 2016 4:01 AM in response to alexander922

    I also had strange anomalies in Finder, under Mavericks 10.9.5, MacBook Pro Retina 2012. Just a few examples:

    - Finder does not show the folder's content

    - lack of ability to switch from icon view to list view or other view options

    - graphical glitches (displaying os x wallpaper or anything that is behind the Finder window in the Finder window)

     

    In my case this helped:

    I quit Google Drive app (from the menu bar) and I relaunched (alt+cmd+esc) Finder.

    The result is immediate fix but I don't know how long the improvement is going to persist.

     

    I turned off Launch at login option in Google Drive for future.

     

    Before that I also did trash files:

    • com.apple.finder.plist
    • com.apple.sidebarlists.plist

    from Home > Library > Preferences folder

    but just that alone did not help and I don't know if it's relevant or not.

     

    Regards

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