I've got an annoying problem that won't let me go into most of my folders. When I try to open those folders, Finder seems to relaunch. It keeps doing the same thing with the same directories.
It crashes with most folders that are nested 2 or 3 times in. But this pattern isn't constant. Some drectories that are small work well, while the bulkier ones almost always crash.
I had a related problem a while back when I tried to move more than one folder or file to another folder - Finder would seem to relaunch. For that problem I was advised to delete the com.apple.finder.plist file and it did the trick.
However, erasing the
/users/me/library/preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
file this time didn't fix this problem.
Anybody know what's going on?
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I just did some searching and I found a similar problem with somebody who fixed it by moving the
/users/me/library/preferences/byhost/com.apple.windowserver.000393d97e96.plist
file to the desktop, erasing the system and user caches, and restarting.
I did this, clearing the caches with Cocktail (found at versiontracker.com), and it didn't help.
Since then I've moved my windowserver file back from whence it came (I think) and am still bummed out.
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For the desperation of it I even tried the Disk Utility thing to repair disk permissions (whatever use that is for anything). Hundreds of things were fixed even though I never noticed any prior problems due to something called MillionMonkeys hehe.
I tried to see if my files could be seen by another user. I used the root user to check it out and it's okay. That's some relief, but I'm stumped still on how to get my account to access those folders.
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I keep editing this message while I try new things. Umm, this time I tried rebooting and holding Command-S to get to Unix and use fsck -y -f (needed the -f to force it 'cause it said my drive was a journalist or something). It said my files are okay.
There were unusual files in the root (/) directory when viewed with the terminal : "User?", and "File Transfer Folder??". I removed that first one (I'm pretty sure it was named like I wrote it here), but this second one with two question marks is stubborn. I have never seen it before and think it needs a rub-out, but I'm not sure if that is what is causeing my folders to close in my GUI.
Help!
It crashes with most folders that are nested 2 or 3 times in. But this pattern isn't constant. Some drectories that are small work well, while the bulkier ones almost always crash.
I had a related problem a while back when I tried to move more than one folder or file to another folder - Finder would seem to relaunch. For that problem I was advised to delete the com.apple.finder.plist file and it did the trick.
However, erasing the
/users/me/library/preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
file this time didn't fix this problem.
Anybody know what's going on?
---
I just did some searching and I found a similar problem with somebody who fixed it by moving the
/users/me/library/preferences/byhost/com.apple.windowserver.000393d97e96.plist
file to the desktop, erasing the system and user caches, and restarting.
I did this, clearing the caches with Cocktail (found at versiontracker.com), and it didn't help.
Since then I've moved my windowserver file back from whence it came (I think) and am still bummed out.
---
For the desperation of it I even tried the Disk Utility thing to repair disk permissions (whatever use that is for anything). Hundreds of things were fixed even though I never noticed any prior problems due to something called MillionMonkeys hehe.
I tried to see if my files could be seen by another user. I used the root user to check it out and it's okay. That's some relief, but I'm stumped still on how to get my account to access those folders.
---
I keep editing this message while I try new things. Umm, this time I tried rebooting and holding Command-S to get to Unix and use fsck -y -f (needed the -f to force it 'cause it said my drive was a journalist or something). It said my files are okay.
There were unusual files in the root (/) directory when viewed with the terminal : "User?", and "File Transfer Folder??". I removed that first one (I'm pretty sure it was named like I wrote it here), but this second one with two question marks is stubborn. I have never seen it before and think it needs a rub-out, but I'm not sure if that is what is causeing my folders to close in my GUI.
Help!