Finder not working on osx 10.9.5

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Finder not working on osx 10.9.5

Out of the blue my finder stopped working yesterday on my Macbook Air with 8 GB of RAM and i7. It is not showing files when I click to open folders, and in the very few times that it does clicking the side bar to navigate to a different folder displays an empty space in the main area.

I tried relaunching several times, and restarting the computer, and changing the view by to icons. I looked in Activity Monitor but nothing is eating my CPU, it's at less than 5 percent. I looked everywhere but so far no answer solves this problem.

The files are there, I can see and work with all of them through the terminal. But are we really going back to ms-dos style?

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Posted on Mar 16, 2016 4:18 AM

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Eric Root

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Mar 16, 2016 10:38 AM in response to EyalEi

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. Move the .plist to your desktop.

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

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

Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.

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