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Q: Finder not working well even after "Killingall Finder"

Hi everyone,

 

I have a MacBook Air running on Mavericks OS X 10.9.5

My Finder is not working properly and I tried Killingall Finder in Terminal which solves the problem just for a moment but after some seconds it won't work again.

The Finder window seems to be freeze and I can not select any item or close it or do anything. I am afraid it could be a bug, because I have seen some soccer games on rojadirecta.com which I know is not a trusty web site.

 

Any help will be appreciated. Thanks!

MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)

Posted on Mar 11, 2016 6:06 AM

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  • by thunderzzz,Solvedanswer

    thunderzzz thunderzzz Mar 11, 2016 6:09 AM in response to unalcol
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    Mar 11, 2016 6:09 AM in response to unalcol

    Try opening the Go menu with the Option (Alt) key pressed - Library - Preferences and locate the file called ‘com.apple.finder.plist’. Move it to the trash and restart your computer.

  • by notcloudy,

    notcloudy notcloudy Mar 11, 2016 6:19 AM in response to unalcol
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    Mar 11, 2016 6:19 AM in response to unalcol

    unalcol wrote:

     

    Hi everyone,

     

    I have a MacBook Air running on Mavericks OS X 10.9.5

    My Finder is not working properly and I tried Killingall Finder in Terminal which solves the problem just for a moment but after some seconds it won't work again.

    The Finder window seems to be freeze and I can not select any item or close it or do anything. I am afraid it could be a bug, because I have seen some soccer games on rojadirecta.com which I know is not a trusty web site.

     

    Any help will be appreciated. Thanks!

     

    May be a bug so report it to apple using feedback.   Apple should stop relying on user workarounds and fix bugs in its software.

     

    The Finder/spotlight might need a rethought/rewrite for what it is indexing and to have a queue in case too much stuff is changed at the same time.

  • by unalcol,

    unalcol unalcol Mar 11, 2016 6:19 AM in response to thunderzzz
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    Mar 11, 2016 6:19 AM in response to thunderzzz

    Thanks thunderzzz I tried that already but does not work.

    The only thing that helps for a while is Killingall Finder, but after a minute it won't work again.

  • by Eric Root,Helpful

    Eric Root Eric Root Mar 14, 2016 7:45 AM in response to unalcol
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    Mar 14, 2016 7:45 AM in response to unalcol

    Do a backup, preferable 2 separate ones on 2 drives. Boot to the Recovery Volume (command - R on a restart or hold down the option/alt key during a restart and select Recovery Volume). Run Disk Utility Verify/Repair Disk and Repair Permissions until you get no errors. Then re-install the OS.

     

    OS X Recovery

     

    OS X Recovery (2)

  • by unalcol,Apple recommended

    unalcol unalcol Mar 11, 2016 10:22 AM in response to unalcol
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    Mar 11, 2016 10:22 AM in response to unalcol

    Thank you all for your responses I will take the advise for the future, or to help someone else if I can.

    I updated my OS X to El Capitan. I did not want to do it because of some comments on forums but I did it because having the option to not access to your documents is a little bit scary, so here I am

    Finder is working now.

     

    Thank you Eric, notcloudy and thunderzzz.

  • by Eric Root,

    Eric Root Eric Root Mar 12, 2016 8:31 AM in response to unalcol
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    Mar 12, 2016 8:31 AM in response to unalcol

    You are welcome.

  • by notcloudy,Helpful

    notcloudy notcloudy Mar 14, 2016 7:44 AM in response to unalcol
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    Mar 14, 2016 7:44 AM in response to unalcol

    unalcol wrote:

     

    Thank you all for your responses I will take the advise for the future, or to help someone else if I can.

    I updated my OS X to El Capitan. I did not want to do it because of some comments on forums but I did it because having the option to not access to your documents is a little bit scary, so here I am

    Finder is working now.

     

    Thank you Eric, notcloudy and thunderzzz.

     

    After some web searching - the Finder issue has been around since Tiger and continues through El-Capitan  -- apparently occurs when there are many changes to the hard drive -- once blurb mentioned it could take finder/spotlight up to 45 minutes to catch up. 

     

    Apple really needs to fix the underlying OS before pushing out more updates.

  • by Abdullah2829,

    Abdullah2829 Abdullah2829 Mar 27, 2016 5:26 PM in response to unalcol
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    Mar 27, 2016 5:26 PM in response to unalcol

    since Maverick the finder having many problems I don't know what they did

    but the old finder was perfect. I have the latest and the most powerful imac

    and finder crashes freez or affec other apps . Apple should rewrite the code

    or return the old finder.

    if you have answers for me to fix this problem It would be nice

  • by notcloudy,

    notcloudy notcloudy Mar 28, 2016 7:06 AM in response to Abdullah2829
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    Mar 28, 2016 7:06 AM in response to Abdullah2829

    Abdullah2829 wrote:

     

    since Maverick the finder having many problems I don't know what they did

    but the old finder was perfect. I have the latest and the most powerful imac

    and finder crashes freez or affec other apps . Apple should rewrite the code

    or return the old finder.

    if you have answers for me to fix this problem It would be nice

    Make a support call appointment with apple

     

    Finder has had problems since Snow Leopard (mine didn't show up until november 2015 - and with every release they get worse).

     

    Re-installing everything is a workaround not a solution.

     

    Open Activity monitor and check to see what is running - MDS and MDworker jobs - those called by Spotlight.

  • by Vlad Hati,

    Vlad Hati Vlad Hati May 17, 2016 11:48 PM in response to unalcol
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    May 17, 2016 11:48 PM in response to unalcol

    Hi,

     

    I still have the same issue with the sharing. I tried everything that has been suggested here, except reinstalling. Is there anything else that I could do to get back this quite useful Share function?

     

    Thanks!

     

    Vlad

  • by Eric Root,

    Eric Root Eric Root May 18, 2016 10:04 AM in response to Vlad Hati
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    May 18, 2016 10:04 AM in response to Vlad Hati

    You might want to consider starting a new discussion. Since this one is marked solved, less people are likely to look at it. You can link to this one.

     

    Sharing options and Markup are missing after you install OS X Yosemite       also El Capitan