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Q: Bug:  Tiny Finder window won't go away

This adorable little Finder window won't go away, won't close.  Can't move it or interact with it.  Not sure where it came from.

 

 

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MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 27, 2013 6:00 AM

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Q: Bug:  Tiny Finder window won't go away

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  • by LibbieLibbie,Solvedanswer

    LibbieLibbie LibbieLibbie Oct 29, 2013 8:40 AM in response to Meowcat
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    Oct 29, 2013 8:40 AM in response to Meowcat

    I had this! I just relaunched finder and it went away. Hold down alt and right click on the finder icon if you don't know how to relaunch.

  • by Colin Bennett,

    Colin Bennett Colin Bennett Oct 29, 2013 10:31 AM in response to Meowcat
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    Oct 29, 2013 10:31 AM in response to Meowcat

    I've got this problem too. Yes, force quitting the finder gets rid of them but they just come back. I've restarted my Mac a lot of times now and they keep coming back. This is definitely a bug that needs squashed.

  • by dangertaco,

    dangertaco dangertaco Oct 30, 2013 8:25 AM in response to Meowcat
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    Oct 30, 2013 8:25 AM in response to Meowcat

    For me, it happens when I drag a tab out of a Finder window to create a separate window.

  • by LibbieLibbie,

    LibbieLibbie LibbieLibbie Oct 30, 2013 8:56 AM in response to dangertaco
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    Oct 30, 2013 8:56 AM in response to dangertaco

    Yes, you're right, I can replicate the problem again like this. Agree it's a bug.

  • by Meowcat,

    Meowcat Meowcat Oct 30, 2013 9:01 AM in response to LibbieLibbie
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    Oct 30, 2013 9:01 AM in response to LibbieLibbie

    Same!

  • by user987435,

    user987435 user987435 Jan 14, 2014 8:41 AM in response to Meowcat
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    Jan 14, 2014 8:41 AM in response to Meowcat

    Same issue here on a Macbook Pro Retina (2012). Finder now has tabs in Mavericks and this issue happens when you pull out a Finder tab. The moment you're moving that finder tab, it's drawn as a mini-me of the Finder window. It seems the ghost of the mini-me remains even when the mini-me grows up.

     

    Relaunching (alt-right clicking the finder icon) helps.

  • by Eric Root,

    Eric Root Eric Root Jan 14, 2014 9:20 AM in response to Meowcat
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    Jan 14, 2014 9:20 AM in response to Meowcat

    Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J.  When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder.  Select Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist. Move the .plist to your desktop.


    Restart and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.


    If the same, return the .plist to where you got it from, overwriting the newer ones.


    Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.

     

    You might need to redo the View settings after an update.

     

    Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem solved sooner.


    Feedback



  • by torpidlittle,

    torpidlittle torpidlittle Jan 28, 2014 3:41 PM in response to Eric Root
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    Jan 28, 2014 3:41 PM in response to Eric Root

    Thanks Eric and Leonie ! This solution works for me too

    No more ghost finder window images on my desktop !!!

     

    I really love this "Apple Support Communities"

     

    Torp

  • by Mike Kormendy,

    Mike Kormendy Mike Kormendy Feb 4, 2014 10:44 AM in response to LibbieLibbie
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    Feb 4, 2014 10:44 AM in response to LibbieLibbie

    I'm sorry but this is NOT a solution to fix the problem. This is a workaround to patch a yet PERSISTENT bug.

     

    I do not have these offending applications: TotalFinder or XtraFinder on my computer yet I am still getting it.

     

    Apple! Fix your **** Finder application already. It does not:

     

    - sort or arrange folder properly (I am constantly having to select any sorting arrangement for it to trigger the sorting/arrangeing feature, then it does what its supposed to)

    - size columns properly

    - consistently keep icon previews properly

     

    This has been going on for YEARS. Please, someone ask me to compile the research that validates this.

  • by BlackDuke07,

    BlackDuke07 BlackDuke07 Apr 1, 2014 1:52 PM in response to Meowcat
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    Apr 1, 2014 1:52 PM in response to Meowcat

    The advice on this page helped me, but there was a step missing.

     

     

    Click anywhere on Desktop.

     

    On the Menu bar select Go then hold alt key and click Library.

     

    Double-click Preferences and delete "com.apple.finder.plist"

     

    Back to Library then double-click SyncedPreferences and delete "com.apple.finder.plist"

     

    Reboot

     

     

    After you complete this you will have to re-set your Finder preferences as you had them before.

     

    Thanks to Eric for helping me resolve this problem.


  • by binaryage,

    binaryage binaryage May 27, 2014 9:19 AM in response to Meowcat
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    May 27, 2014 9:19 AM in response to Meowcat

    Confirmed, this is caused by any app tweaking Finder's AnimateWindowZoom and DisableAllAnimations plist keys (TotalFinder does that).

     

    To fix it for plain Finder, please execute this as a single line in Terminal.app:

     

        osascript -e "tell application \"Finder\" to quit" && defaults write com.apple.finder DisableAllAnimations -bool false &&  defaults write com.apple.finder AnimateWindowZoom -bool true

     

    To fix it for TotalFinder please follow this post:

    http://discuss.binaryage.com/t/weird-finder-ghosting/1526/2

     

    I'm sorry for this glitch.

  • by dangertaco,

    dangertaco dangertaco May 27, 2014 9:19 AM in response to binaryage
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    May 27, 2014 9:19 AM in response to binaryage

    This worked. Thank you!

  • by user987435,

    user987435 user987435 May 27, 2014 9:25 AM in response to binaryage
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    May 27, 2014 9:25 AM in response to binaryage

    Confirmed that this worked.

     

    Interestingly I had uninstalled TotalFinder many months before I ever upgraded to Mavericks but somehow it didn't help. As part of a documented and public API, I'd still put this issue in Apple's court. Perhaps you should also report this to the Apple team? (I don't know how it's done)

  • by binaryage,

    binaryage binaryage May 27, 2014 9:43 AM in response to user987435
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    May 27, 2014 9:43 AM in response to user987435

    I'm trying to set the values back to defaults in my uninstall script:

    https://github.com/binaryage/totalfinder-i18n/blob/master/uninstaller/uninstall. applescript#L89-L94

     

    Unfortunately it probably failed in your case for some reason.

     

    In general setting plist tweaks while app is running is not 100% safe, Finder/TotalFinder could override the values again during normal operation or during shutdown sequence.

     

    I should double-check it.

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