Upgraded from Mountain Lion to Mavericks. All my files in "Pictures" are still listed, but none of them will show in Finder as Icons, Lists, Columns or Cover, the various folders open but there's nothing there. Any suggestions?
Brian
iMac
Try starting in Safe Mode and see if the problem still occurs?
Restart holding the "shift" key.
(Expect it to take longer to start this way because it runs a directory check first.)
If this works look in System Preferences > Users & Groups > Login items and delete any third party login items (-), you can always add them back with the (+). Don’t just “hide” them by checkmark.
Might be Finder preferences are corrupted ...
Open the Finder. From the Finder menu bar click Go > Go to Folder
Type or copy paste the following:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
Click Go then move the com.apple.finder.plist file to the Trash
See if that makes a difference.
Carolyn,
Now this is interesting. If you look at this discussion here on the Forum https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5220878?answerId=23127835022#23127835022
you'll see that deleting the "plist" is the work-around to solve my problems with Aperture 3 not reading PSD files.
The upgrade to Mavricks and Aperture 3.5 somehow solved that problem, so I'm reluctant to mess around with whatever the "plist" is. What exactly am I doing by deleting it?
Brian
You're resetting Finder preferences to default.
It's a common troubleshooting tool.
The Finder .plist has nothing to do with Aperture.
message edited by: cs
Carolyn, I see there is more than one Finder "plist," so which am I deleting?
file:///Users/BRIAN/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
file:///Users/BRIAN/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist.E7W3U2w
file:///Users/BRIAN/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist.glVMQfj
file:///Users/BRIAN/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist.jO1jrXL
file:///Users/BRIAN/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist.NnbDUGA
file:///Users/BRIAN/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist.ROjBf02
file:///Users/BRIAN/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist.XPdna73
file:///Users/BRIAN/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist.zAIUNSH
Brian
Message was edited by: azartguy
Carolyn, assuming the first plist was the correct one, I trashed it. No change.
MacJack, tried the "safe" boot. There are no other User log-ins. No change.
Brian
Delete ALL the Finder plists you listed. Then immediately log out and back in or restart. There should only be 1 plist for Finder,
Macjack, whatever those plist preferences were, and wherever they came from, trashing them solved the problem. Thank you very much,
Brian
Glad to hear that 🙂
You're welcome.
Finder won't show images in Mavericks
