Q: Yosemite Finder bug, folders get unresponsive in icon view

On this new imac I had dropbox installed but was not syncing or using it.  I had not even logged in to it.  No to google drive. 

On my previous imac (2007) I had upgraded to Yosemite and had Dropbox and other programs installed and running with no finder trouble.

I've had some bizarre behavior caused by a program called "Bar Tunes" that puts itunes controls in the menu bar.  It won't let me quit itunes while it is running.  That started after an update to that program but I don't think it's finder

Do you have Cisco or Remote Desktop Connection?  Parallels? 

I don't have that many third party apps so I may do a one by one intro.

My problem apparently got solved by installing OnyX and executing all options. 2014 Macbook pro 15" retina

Could you specify "all options"? What exactly did you do?

You see how every tab has an "execute" option on the bottom? So I pretty much executed all of them. from all tabs..

I tried this and ran almost all of the available utilities.  Did nothing for me.

Same for me too. MBP Late 2013. I'm a developer, I haven't tested if the new Yosemite build that was released a few days ago fixes it - but it wasn't mentioned in the release notes.

Can't make a test case as it isn't reliably repeatable.

I've tried many things to resolve this, I believe its a bug. When in the finder window, icon view only, occasionally the icons do not render. Switching to list view is fine.

Resizing the finder window when the finder window is in this state leaves artifacting. Seems to be a graphic driver issue, I could test if switching to the other internal graphics card makes the issue go away.

Would capture a screenshot but it doesn't capture!

This describes 100% my problem, MBP 15" Retina Late 2013.

Thanks, will try that later!

There is a Reddit thread on OSX10.10 bugs. Lots of others with the same issue. Some tried switching "Dedicated" to "Integrated" graphics or "Autoswitching" to no avail. No fix, sadly.

Guess the best thing to do now is let Apple know about this via feedback as suggested before.

Onyx didn't fix it for me :/

I am experiencing the same problem. But may be something related with computers with retina display. I don't have this problem with another mac with no retina. Hope some fix from Apple.

Hey guys, I tried the 'rebuild DS_store file' option in Onyx and my Finder has been displaying folder icons properly since.

I unchecked all other options except the 'Appearance of folders' content' and executed it under automation (so that it includes all folders).

Not sure if it's a fix, but if someone else could reproduce this with the same results, that'll be great.

For what's is worth: I have the same problem on my trustworthy iMac from 2010... The Finder window can be moved around, but for about half of the time, I cannot click on anything / scroll it / interact at all. The other half, all actions like clicking, scrolling have a huge time delay of several seconds between me initiating the action and the action actually registered. Restarting the Finder helps a while, but the problem always comes back.

This is how it looks like when the issue occurs. If i change to another view and change back to ICON view, the folder basically displaying blank content. Closing the FINDER and opening again resolves the issue.