I had a problem crop up yesterday and I haven't been able to make it go away. Now, when I click on the Finder icon in the Dock, instead of a Finder window, I get a Connect To Server dialog box. It was as if I had double-clicked on a alias for something on a server I'm not connected to: it came up for a particular server in our building with my username filled in and was waiting for a password. The dialog box won't work though--can't use it to connect and can't close it. If I interact with it in any way, I get the spinning beachball of death.
This behavior doesn't persist across users. I tried trashing the com.apple.finder.plist file without success. I tried turning off haxies and removing everything from my login items. I even dared to peer in and edit out a line from my finder.plist file:
<key>FXConnectToLastURL</key>
<string>afp://[valid local IP address here]/</string>
...which seemed to fix the problem. But when I logged out and back in to this user, the behavior was recreated and the line added back in to the plist file.
Another odd thing: If I pick Connect To Server from the Go menu and actually connect to our server BEFORE trying to open a Finder window, everything is fine; I can connect fine, the Finder opens upon connection, and as long as I STAY connected, the Finder works. But if I log off and try to call up a Finder window, bingo--the problem resurfaces.
Any ideas what could have caused this or how to make it stop?
BTW: Indigo iMac 500, 10.3.2, 320MB RAM.
Thanks. --Pete (that's my home computer, below)
This behavior doesn't persist across users. I tried trashing the com.apple.finder.plist file without success. I tried turning off haxies and removing everything from my login items. I even dared to peer in and edit out a line from my finder.plist file:
<key>FXConnectToLastURL</key>
<string>afp://[valid local IP address here]/</string>
...which seemed to fix the problem. But when I logged out and back in to this user, the behavior was recreated and the line added back in to the plist file.
Another odd thing: If I pick Connect To Server from the Go menu and actually connect to our server BEFORE trying to open a Finder window, everything is fine; I can connect fine, the Finder opens upon connection, and as long as I STAY connected, the Finder works. But if I log off and try to call up a Finder window, bingo--the problem resurfaces.
Any ideas what could have caused this or how to make it stop?
BTW: Indigo iMac 500, 10.3.2, 320MB RAM.
Thanks. --Pete (that's my home computer, below)