Was the machine working OK until you tried to access the folder?
I suggest you Shut Down, wait a minute and then restart.
If the problem persists, run Disk Utility and repair the disk.
Cheers
Rob
On 24/09/2015 2:19 pm, Graham Green wrote:
Hi Ronni
Thanks for the suggestions.
When I go to user/home folder, nothing shows, only a spinning wheel in the
bottom corner.
Also, Documents folder and other sub-folders show nothing, only spinning wheel.
When I tried your 3. below, nothing showed, so couldn’t remove plist.:
3. When the View options opens, check ?Show Library Folder?.
That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder.
Nothing showed
Fortunately, Path Finder is operating OK.
Any other advice greatly appreciated.
Regards
Graham
On 23 Sep 2015, at 10:42 pm, [email protected]
wrote:
Message: 5
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 20:47:25 +0800
From: Ronni Brown <[email protected]>
To: WAMUG <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: OSX 10.9.5 Finder won't show Folder contents
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"
Hello Graham,
Have you tried 'refreshing' the Finder .plist?
1. Go to Finder and select your user/home folder.
2. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder-View-Show
View options or go command - J.
3. When the View options opens, check ?Show Library Folder?.
That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder.
4. Select Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist.
Move the com.apple.finder.plist to your desktop.
5. Re-launch Finder by logging out/in 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
ones.
Note: "You might need to redo the View settings" after.
For example:
If experience the hard drive icon not showing on the desktop after refreshing
the plist,
Go to Finder > Preferences and under "Show these items on the desktop" check the box next
to "Hard disks" and the icon will reappear.
Cheers,
Ronni
13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014)
1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz
8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM
512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage
OS X Yosemite 10.10.2
On 23 Sep 2015, at 6:22 pm, Graham Green <[email protected]> wrote:
In recent days, the Finder has stopped showing the documents in various
Sub-Folders that I have used. These sub-folders are frequently used folders
that I have dragged onto the side-bar - they have worked fine until recently.
I also have Path Finder in the Dock, and use it only occasionally for sorting
and organising files. It is working OK, and so i can find the documentsI want.
I?ve searched WAMUG Files and Google - seems I?m not the only one suffering,
and couldn?t find any clear solutions.
(The only new thing, I recently downloaded ABBYY FineReaderPro.)
Any help appreciated.
Regards
Graham
Duncraig WA
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