Yosemite Finder bug, folders get unresponsive in icon view

One temporary solution I discovered was to click on the Home folder icon in the sidebar and switch to icon view. Yosemite would display the icons in my Home folder, but not in any other folder. So to view the icons in my Pictures folder, for example, I would have to first go to my Home folder, navigate to the Pictures folder from that Finder window and all my icons were visible again.

I have to do that once per session to view anything in icon view. It's not a fix, but I hope this works for some of you. And yes, it's quite annoying to take a new 5K iMac out of the box and within a day, I'm already trying to find workarounds for bugs like this.

This is happening to me on my 2008 MacPro (not iMac) running OS X 10.10.1. Relaunching Finder fixes it for a small amount of time but this is a basic function for any OS and should be considered unacceptable to any OS maker.

maybe a way to find a solution. / for me this "trick" did HALF the rent.

ok....really...try this at your OWN RISK, but it helped me to restore my "white" folders in finder.

"only" the open dialog out of applications (file => open ) keeps white on some folders.......and spotlight stucks...and....(but from a unusable system to a 50% usable system is almost better than nothing.)

somewhere i found this information:

a. Open Terminal and run this command:

open $TMPDIR/../C

b. Locate and delete the folder called "com.apple.appstore"

c. Now, go to this folder and delete everything:

/Library/Updates/

d. Once done removing all these stuff, restart your Mac and empty the trash. Then run this command using Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.dock ResetLaunchPad -bool true; killall Dock

This resolved my problem with application folder in finder, but not with all the other folders.

To resolve THIS problem i deleted the WHOLE content in private/var/folders

restart, voila!

good luck

3 tipps:

-for the ones who are not used to command line: install midnightcommander for mac and start it with "sudo mc"

-if you can´t start terminal (because your utilities folder is gone white too, start your installation in rescue mode. there you can start terminal

-starting an app with terminal: open -a nameoftheapp

On 2 different MacBooks, both running latest (as of 4/23/15) 10.10.3, I have this problem when in Icon View opening a network share. Tried AFP, CIFS, SMB thinking it was a related to some known issues there... but no difference as Finder still goes un-responsive and I must force a refresh on it. I go to List View and no issues.

I went so far as to wipe one of the devices and do a factory restore, but still the issue re-appears.

This problem is not just icon view. Some folders appear empty in all the different views.

I have checked the volume with DiskWarrior, no problem. I have done repair permissions. I removed the finder prefs file.

This happened after I upgraded from 10.9.x direct to 10.10.3.

• Launch Terminal
• Quit all other apps, even Finder (using Activity Monitor app)
• In Terminal: mv /private/var/folders /private/var/folders-aside
• Restart.

Wouldn't start up.

• Start up in recovery mode
• Run disk first aid
• Reinstall the OS

Comes up.

Still lots of folders that are not empty but appear blank!

Problem not fixed

After the upgrade to Yosemite 10.10.5 I have started having this issue too. Relaunching Finder does fix the issue, but still its a bug that needs fixed!

I have an alias to my Download folder on my Desktop, it used to open up right away. Not anymore. I double click on it, sometimes it does actually open 3-4 minutes later!!!! Sometimes it doesn't open at all. I then have to relaunch Finder and lose any unsafe work,.

These Yosemite updates have just gotten worse and worse and worse. I will NOT be upgrading to El Cap anytime soon, thats for sure. I'm about ready to get out my PC with Windows 7 on it instead of Safari and Yosemite 10.10.5

This did it for me, thanks. My Finder view was just empty. No icon, no size or date created info. Just blank. I deleted that file and relaunched Finder, and everything worked as normal again. Thank you!

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