Finder Keeps showing up as rubbish in the window OSX 10.9.5

Hi Can you help? My Finder keeps doing this?

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And then it is effectively useless, unless I force quit and relaunch. it they may let me in normally for a couple of windows and then it goes back to doing this again? At which point I have to restart the computer.

This it the last system log query that Ive retrieved from using the console. Please can you help?

Many thanks

Alex

08/09/2016 15:01:58.852 Finder[2871]: (

0 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8c75d25c __exceptionPreprocess + 172

1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00007fff8d36be75 objc_exception_throw + 43

2 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8c76012d -[NSObject(NSObject) doesNotRecognizeSelector:] + 205

3 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8c6bb272 ___forwarding___ + 1010

4 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8c6badf8 _CF_forwarding_prep_0 + 120

5 FinderExt 0x000000010a670fd4 -[NSTextFieldCell(IconOverlayHandlers) IconOverlayHandlers_drawIconWithFrame:] + 212

6 Finder 0x0000000105322fcc Finder + 1073100

7 Finder 0x0000000105322f29 Finder + 1072937

8 Finder 0x0000000105322407 Finder + 1070087

9 Finder 0x0000000105321d5f Finder + 1068383

10 Finder 0x0000000105321c27 Finder + 1068071

11 AppKit 0x00007fff8ef0d468 -[NSControl drawRect:] + 341

12 Finder 0x000000010526654c Finder + 300364

13 AppKit 0x00007fff8ef0004f -[NSView _drawRect:clip:] + 3748

14 AppKit 0x00007fff8eefe8c4 -[NSView _recursiveDisplayAllDirtyWithLockFocus:visRect:] + 1799

15 AppKit 0x00007fff8eefeca0 -[NSView _recursiveDisplayAllDirtyWithLockFocus:visRect:] + 2787

16 AppKit 0x00007fff8eefeca0 -[NSView _recursiveDisplayAllDirtyWithLockFocus:visRect:] + 2787

17 AppKit 0x00007fff8eefeca0 -[NSView _recursiveDisplayAllDirtyWithLockFocus:visRect:] + 2787

18 AppKit 0x00007fff8eefeca0 -[NSView _recursiveDisplayAllDirtyWithLockFocus:visRect:] + 2787

19 AppKit 0x00007fff8eefeca0 -[NSView _recursiveDisplayAllDirtyWithLockFocus:visRect:] + 2787

20 AppKit 0x00007fff8eefeca0 -[NSView _recursiveDisplayAllDirtyWithLockFocus:visRect:] + 2787

21 AppKit 0x00007fff8eefeca0 -[NSView _recursiveDisplayAllDirtyWithLockFocus:visRect:] + 2787

22 AppKit 0x00007fff8eefeca0 -[NSView _recursiveDisplayAllDirtyWithLockFocus:visRect:] + 2787

23 AppKit 0x00007fff8f0dbfd8 -[NSBrowser _recursiveDisplayAllDirtyWithLockFocus:visRect:] + 78

24 AppKit 0x00007fff8eefeca0 -[NSView _recursiveDisplayAllDirtyWithLockFocus:visRect:] + 2787

25 AppKit 0x00007fff8eefeca0 -[NSView _recursiveDisplayAllDirtyWithLockFocus:visRect:] + 2787

26 AppKit 0x00007fff8eefeca0 -[NSView _recursiveDisplayAllDirtyWithLockFocus:visRect:] + 2787

27 AppKit 0x00007fff8eefeca0 -[NSView _recursiveDisplayAllDirtyWithLockFocus:visRect:] + 2787

28 AppKit 0x00007fff8eefc706 -[NSView _recursiveDisplayRectIfNeededIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectFor View:topView:] + 841

29 AppKit 0x00007fff8eefbeb1 -[NSThemeFrame _recursiveDisplayRectIfNeededIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectFor View:topView:] + 314

30 AppKit 0x00007fff8eef8e9f -[NSView _displayRectIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectForView:] + 2828

31 AppKit 0x00007fff8eed82da -[NSView displayIfNeeded] + 1680

32 AppKit 0x00007fff8ef3d74e _handleWindowNeedsDisplayOrLayoutOrUpdateConstraints + 884

33 AppKit 0x00007fff8f513061 __83-[NSWindow _postWindowNeedsDisplayOrLayoutOrUpdateConstraintsUnlessPostingDisabled]_block_ invoke1331 + 46

34 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8c68dd67 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_AN_OBSERVER_CALLBACK_FUNCTION__ + 23

35 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8c68dcd7 __CFRunLoopDoObservers + 391

36 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8c67f3b8 __CFRunLoopRun + 776

37 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8c67ee75 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 309

38 HIToolbox 0x00007fff96361a0d RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 226

39 HIToolbox 0x00007fff96361685 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 173

40 HIToolbox 0x00007fff963615bc _BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInModeWithFilter + 65

41 AppKit 0x00007fff8eda124e _DPSNextEvent + 1434

42 AppKit 0x00007fff8eda089b -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 122

43 AppKit 0x00007fff8ed9499c -[NSApplication run] + 553

44 AppKit 0x00007fff8ed7f783 NSApplicationMain + 940

45 Finder 0x0000000105223730 Finder + 26416

46 libdyld.dylib 0x00007fff8f8f75fd start + 1

)

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5), Processor 2.66 GHz Intel Core i5

Posted on Sep 8, 2016 7:37 AM

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Sep 8, 2016 8:26 AM in response to nandagunn

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.

Sep 8, 2016 3:06 PM in response to nandagunn

If you run Google Drive on your Mac running OS X 10.9.5, remove/uninstall Google Drive app.

There is a bug that has returned, been reintroduced in the last Google Drive updates that brought back a bug in the OS X Finder in OS X 10.9.5 Mavericks.

This bug appeared in the Finder with Google Drive and OS X 10.9.5 Mavericks a long time, ago, when Mavericks was first available.

This bug has seemed to returned.


Good Luck!

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