gran_kabuto

Q: Finder gets frozen

Hi, this is my first post and I am not a native english speaker, so please forgive me if I make some mistakes.

The problem I have is with my wife's iMac. After a month her iMac was well packed in his box because we have moved to a new house. When we installed it again a strange problem came.

The Finder gets frozen within a minute after opening the window. Many things can happen here:

 

  • The files are not shown.
  • The files are shown but cannot be selected
  • The Finder window the Finder becomes a mess when I pass floating other windows above the Finder. Dragging a windows over the Finder a trail image or dragged window is created

 

Killing the Finder process just works for a minute, then everything said before starts again. OSX is still running MAVERICKS 10.9.5 because lack of time. Maybe is time to upgrade?

 

Please find attached some photos showing the problem.

Best regards

Pablo

 

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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)

Posted on May 17, 2016 2:35 AM

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  • by Eric Root,

    Eric Root Eric Root May 17, 2016 8:47 AM in response to gran_kabuto
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    iTunes
    May 17, 2016 8:47 AM in response to gran_kabuto

    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.

  • by gran_kabuto,

    gran_kabuto gran_kabuto May 17, 2016 11:28 AM in response to Eric Root
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    Mac OS X
    May 17, 2016 11:28 AM in response to Eric Root

    Hi Eric

     

    Thank you very much for your answer but it did not work. I have made every step but it still doing the same.

     

    Best regards

    Pablo