Gerrit Velthuis

Q: Finder window "out of focus"

Anyone familiar with this weird situation?

Every now and then, the content of a Finder window (on my iMac) is moving outside the border without creating sliding bars.

That makes the content (partly) invisible/unreachable. The navigation column has disappeared also.

Switching from icons to list etc. doesn't help. Throwing away the finder prefs neither. Reparing rights neither.

Swiping over my magic mouse, moves the content a little bit, but it jumps back immediately.

Jumping back with the arrows in the upper left corner . . . . no influence; other content, same problem

A minute ago it looked like this (screendump).

And it's only this window; other opened Finder windows are OK.

Schermafbeelding 2016-06-17 om 13.42.08.jpg

When I open a new window and open-up the same content/folder the problem is gone.

The problem can also be solved (I just found out, a minute ago) by choosing "Hide navigation column" and "Show navigation column" from the "View" menu.

Not sure if the menu is called "View" in the English version; in Dutch it is "Weergave".

Till . . . . an hour, a day, two days later . . . . . the same thing happens again. I cannot reproduce the problem.

 

It's not a mayor problem but still . . annoying.

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5), 8 Gb RAM - 1,5 Tb harddisk

Posted on Jun 17, 2016 5:14 AM

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  • by Limnos,

    Limnos Limnos Jun 17, 2016 5:18 AM in response to Gerrit Velthuis
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    Jun 17, 2016 5:18 AM in response to Gerrit Velthuis

    I recently started using Mavericks and I discover Finder has problems (bugs).  For an older OS Apple has but one cure -- install a newer OS (and deal with a different set of bugs).  I haven't seen your particular issue but Mavericks Finder has several others and I have learned that unless I change OS version there is nothing really to do than put up with them or use workarounds.

  • by Gerrit Velthuis,

    Gerrit Velthuis Gerrit Velthuis Jun 17, 2016 5:23 AM in response to Limnos
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    Jun 17, 2016 5:23 AM in response to Limnos

    Thanks Limnos, but there are a few reasons (mainly software incompatibilities) to stick with Mavericks.

    Strange thing is, that it only started to occur after having used Mavericks flawless for over a year.