Unable to Access Applications Folder After Upgrade to Yosemite

Hey John,

yes, I did a clean install.

100% vanilla - no applications installed. (Just the stock ones.)

I talked to the apple support today, they told me they've had already a few (very few) calls

about this issue - The guy on the phone said he would talk to some devs about it.

I really hope they will fix this - I already tried various stuff to get rid of this problem,

so far: no luck. (Resetting PRAM, deleting Finder.plist, trying a new user-account, reinstalling and so on...)

My only workaround for now is using list-view (or anything except icon-view)...

I have got the same problem on 2 machines i upgraded to 10.10 , the original one i reported in a bug report so hopefully apple will do a fix some day.

That is a good question. I suppose you would have to boot to single user and fix /Applications there if you don't have Terminal pinned already to the Dock.

Luckily I keep it pinned, and am able to run it. In some ways all this gui lock down takes away our basic OS access, but the stability is worth it versus linux in my eyes. I'm pretty surprised that a bug like this lasted this long for Apple. I don't like testing OS code, but wasn't there a massive public beta. I assumed the cost of participating in something like that would be testing things and reporting back issues like this. Oh well, hopefully this is addressed soon.

To your knowledge - I also have a MacBook Pro Late 2012.

If I "Duplicate" my Applications Directory - the copied version is empty.

If I try to Burn the Applications dir on CD/DVD all I get is a "The source dir is empty" errormessage.

But I can type a programm name into spotlight and get it listed, I can also run that programm - so its on the disc.
In the spotligt result window, I can also grab the program icon and move that to another folder - and the program is listet there with no problem I can also run it from there - but the original entry is still in "Applications" when I do a " ls -l /Applications " in Terminal.

I can also use the programm "AppCleaner" and get all programms listet there - so I was able to remove all the old ones that are incompatible - but it didn't solve the problem.

What I just found was, that if I try to search for "Festplattendienstprogramm" (german for "DiskUtility") - this is not found, but it looks that the finder crashes while spotlight is searching for that.

I also get a lot of incorrect a group rights errors like:

Abweichende Zugriffsrechte für „Library/Java“, Soll-Wert: drwxr-xr-x , Ist-Wert: drwxrwxr-x .

Gruppe von „Library/Preferences/com.apple.alf.plist“ ist 0, korrekt wäre 80.

Der Benutzer von „private/var/db/displaypolicyd“ ist 244, korrekt wäre 0.

Gruppe von „private/var/db/displaypolicyd“ ist 244, korrekt wäre 0.

So maybe there's a problem too.

How can I repair access right via Terminal ?

I aleady did a repair on starup with CMD-R and then using diskutility to repair the disc and the access right - but this only shows many group right errors but I'm not sure if these get fixed - because after the repair the problem still is there and not fixed.

Hey Technobilder,

I've got the same problem as you. I cannot fix the permissions on displaypolicyd.

Here is my Disk Utility log:

Der Benutzer unterscheidet sich auf „private/var/db/displaypolicyd“, korrekt wäre 0, Benutzer ist jedoch 244.

Gruppe unterscheidet sich auf „private/var/db/displaypolicyd“, korrekt wäre 0, Gruppe ist jedoch 244.

„private/var/db/displaypolicyd“ wurde repariert

But after a reboot and running Disk Utility again - nothing is fixed. Same problem with displaypolicyd.

Yeah i tried the disk utility to fix perms , fix problems and never got any where.

Its really worrying that this sort of things can get through testing...

Okay I was bored and fed up , I moved each app into a new folder called "NOTWORKING"

with terminal whislt keeping both the applications and NOTWORKING folders open

after many apps were moved i noticed that moving Litecoin Ticker.App into NOTWORKING the folder would not appear in the new folder.

So after removing this app from applications then rebooting my problem was solved.

I will update if i find any other apps that seem to do this.

Okay have done this on a second machine now and confirm this fixed the problem.

Solution ::

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Open Terminal

cd /Applications/

sudo rm -rf "/Applications/Litecoin Ticker.app"

Password:

[/Applications] $ killall Finder

And from this point your Applications folder should now list fine.

I can confirm that - I also had Litecoin Ticker App installed and after deleting it via Terminal s described my Applications directory now gets listet !

I've found something that helped me...

Go to: User ▸ <YOUR USERNAME> ▸ Library ▸ Saved Application State

Copy com.apple.finder.savedState to the Desktop (as Backup) and delete it from the Saved Application State folder.

Reboot.

- This at least worked for me. (Hopefully it will stay that way!)

Okay, forget it. - Problem reoccurred.

Shift + Apple key + G then enter /Applications/Utilitiles/

for all those who can't load terminal 😉

Same problem here on 2012 MacBook 15" Retina. Waiting for a fix from Apple....