Finder won't relaunch even after force quit

Might be a corrupt .plist.

Do a backup, preferably 2 backups on 2 separate drives.

Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library. Then go to Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist and com.apple.sidebarlists.plist. Move the .plists to your desktop.

Re-launch Finder by restarting the computer and test. If it works okay, delete the plists from the desktop.

If the same, return the .plists to where you got it from, overwriting the newer one.

Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.F

do you know if all of you pro apps comparable with OS El Capitan?

Because it sounds like something has broke with mavericks you can reinstall it with OS X: About OS X Recovery - Apple Support just remember if you do that to back up all of your files.

leveleyed wrote:

On an early 2013 MacBook Pro retina, Mavericks 10.9.5, anytime I try to relaunch finder it seems to quit (icons all disappear, no more menu bar for finder, app not running in activity monitor, doesn't show in force quit menu), but will not relaunch, even via terminal command. cmd+tab and I still see the finder icon. It's as if it quits, but the system doesn't think it did, and I can't start it again, and end up needing to reboot my machine every time. I've tried running repair permissions on my disk. Not sure what else to do. Any help resolving this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Was just going to post something on this as it just happened to me.

I can tell you for sure this is a bug that goes all the way back to Snow Leopard.

I had powered up my system - - start was slow for some reason - possibly unix or finder - so took about 5 minutes to get to the desktop - opened activity monitor from my desktop alias and waited for it to settle down - tried to open the GO menu only to get a freeze -- actually managed to get the option/command/escape keys to bring up force quite -- forced quit non-responding finder -- took the option to relaunch -- the desktop did not have any icons or top bar but the dock was there. on trying to open a stack item in finder - had an error - but opening preview from the dock brought up the top menu bar so I could restart -- and everything was okay.

Since a jam up caused by spotlight finder indexing - have moved my folders and Caches folder into the private section of spotlight in an effort to cut down on its activity.

Do you have all updates installed? (could be a fix in an update)