Finder reverting to desktop

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europa16v

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Hi,
I'm new to Mac's & have a MBP. When I'm hooked up to the network at work, the Finder keeps flicking back to desktop view. It isn't the network/cable etc. It hasn't always done it, can anyone help?
 
I'm hooked up the network at work & I have opened files on the server, I'm several files deep looking at the contents of a folder. Then I'm working away in Photoshop, or whatever & the Finder loses the information & I'm looking at a blank Finder, as if I've just opened it up - just looking at items on my desktop etc.
 
Well let's start with removing the Finder preferences. Open your home folder and go into Library > Preferences and locate the file called com.apple.finder.plist and move it out to your desktop. Then either reboot or logout and log back in again. Some of your preferences for the Finder behavior will have been reset, but it should only take a second or two to get it back the way you want it.

If removing the Finder preferences has no effect, you can go ahead and put it back. Let us know what happens.
 
Perhaps you are activating the 'desktop' vie of expose by moving the mouse near a corner of the screen (so-called hot corners). Do all the windows slide off the edges of the screen when this happens, leaving a thin darker border round the screen?
 
Ah, ok, just wanted to check as if you didn't realize what it was that could have matched what you were saying, especially as you says it bumps you out of programs like photshop. Sorry if i was being patronizing :)
 
Nahh, don't worry about it. TBH my description of what happens was a bit vague. I've been in work an hour & it hasn't done it *yet*. I also had a problem deleting some files on the server, saying that they were in use, when they weren't. I opened up these photoshop files & deleted some of the smart object layers, then saved. Then I could delete them - maybe it was these corruopt files causing Finder to mis-behave. I doubt it, but then again, I'm no Mac expert!! :0)
 
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