Yosemite Finder bug, folders get unresponsive in icon view

Atomalbert: At your suggestion I tried the same thing on my new 5k iMac that is about 1 week old and had this problem from day 2 ,always in icon view. For what it's worth, I ran your idea and I've been using it for about 30 minutes and it has not done the problem once. It seems to have fixed it so far.

Separately, over the past 48 hours I decided to create a second user profile on my system and slowly introduce the same software I had before. Using that method, my finder on the other profile has been working perfectly. I don't understand what caused my first profile to have this problem if it's truly just a software bug. That is, wouldn't the same bug be present on a second profile? The same software looks like actually just copies over anyway when creating a profile. I haven't actually used every software in the same exact way or as long as I did on the first profile so it may yet screw me up.

I could be wrong but I think my trouble started during video editing a bunch of files.

I triple checked while typing this email and your solution is still working for me. I know this was not working correctly at all before your solution.

One PS, I found that I had taken 4 or 5 screen shots of this finder activity and had them on my desktop. After I ran this solution, those files were deleted. Odd. Hope no other files were deleted.

So far, I'm still going and the Finder is working as it should. Is yours still working?

Well I feel like a big idiot but I need to fess up...ha. When I ran the proposed solution, I was in my fake/second profile I created that has been working good all along. That's why the files weren't on my desktop.

So, I logged in to the bad profile of mine where the Finder has not been working. Ran this proposed solution and same problem. Didn't work. Finder not updating as I switch folders or folders show with the block/black letters.

Sorry.

Mine is still displaying correctly after the DS_store rebuild. Weird. Thanks for trying it out.

Yeah, everyone here has that issue. Restarting FINDER resolves it for awhile, then it comes back. I tried the DS_store rebuild and seems to work. But it's not consistently working for everyone, so probably not the fix.

Actually, reinstalling Yosemite solves the problem. Just go to App Store and download the Yosemite again, you need to download whole 5,06 Gb again, but at the end the problem solved. Btw, I am using Mid 2014, 13" Macbook Pro Retina.

So I tried deleting and rebuilding the DS_Store File via Onyx, my problem wasn't solved. I created a new "test_folder" on the desktop, copied a PDF file into it, opened the folder, still problems, the file name is "blacked out", resizing the window leads to artifacts. So, for me, this does no change, just to let you guys know.

Okay, just did a complete new installation of Yosemite, no change for me, problems are still the same like before.

been doing it twice.. first fresh install seem to fix the problem for a while.. when i restore some file from time machine backup the problem re appearing.. and i thought its from some of the file I restore.. then i do again the fresh install and the problem still there.. i only notice it after installing adobe CC photoshop and illustrator and office for mac, that is all..

from the reading seem the problem only affected the one with retina display.. doesn't happen in maverick.. mine is MBP retina 15" late 2013..

It might be to early to declare victory, but at least the problem did not occur for two or three days now (I did restart only once, though, as for the rest of the time the iMac was in sleep mode, so everything has to be taken with a grain of salt).

I thought that the problem did not occur initially after switching to Yosemite, so I tried to race back what kind of software installs etc. I did afterwards. Here is what I came up with:

• removed MenuMeters from Preference Panes (V 1.7 I guess)
• installed iStatMini from the AppStore as it should provide similar functionality as MenuMeters in the notification center
• updated the Wacom driver to Wacom Tablet Driver 6.3.10-2
• I had no clear evidence that this was cause but I removed iStat Mini from the Notification Center... I remembered that I had some weird problems with iStat Menus (iStat Menus 5.03)some time ago, so this a kind of 80% blind troubleshooting attempt
• and installed the latest version of MenuMeters 1.8.1

And that's it.

So the question is, I guess, does anybody here use a combination of

• MenuMeters
• iStat or iStatMini
• Wacom driver

so that the culprit can either narrowed down (or the theory rejected...)

Martin

UPDATE: I also removed the Deliveries widget from the Notification Center, btw, as it nagged me by continuously asking for access to the keychain.

I'm using iStat Pro, so you think that might be the thing?

I don't use any of these Apps and had the problem.

After using Onyx I there was no problem anymore. Maybe it will come back..

i dont install any of those you mention.. what i have now are adobe CC and office for mac only and problem is there.. so adobe CC not the culprit i think since you don list it as your installed software (which i suspected at first)..

@SebAndWag - Did you choose to rebuild the DS_store file for one specific folder only, or all folders on your computer?

My folders have been displaying correctly ever since I rebuilt all the DS_store files with Onyx.

I didn't find any option in Onyx to just rebuild it for one folder, so I guess I did it for all folders on my computer.