Also, if you would prefer not to restart the computer (maybe lots of other things open/in progress), don't forget that you can just relaunch the finder:
Apple menu/force quit - select finder from the list of open items and the "Force Quit" button changes to a "Relaunch" button. I have often found that this is enough to sort things if Finder is being a little flakey. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [email protected] on 24/9/15 11:34 AM, Graham Green at [email protected] wrote: > Finder is working again. Panic over. > I¹m humbled to say the traditional first recourse - a Restart - seems to have > helped it sort out its own problems. > I should have thought of that before. > Thanks Ronni for taking time to assist. > > Regards > > Graham > On 24 Sep 2015, at 11:02 am, [email protected] > wrote: > >> Message: 4 >> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 10:19:49 +0800 >> From: Graham Green <[email protected]> >> To: [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 >> >> 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 couldn¹t 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 >>> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 5 >> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 11:02:39 +0800 >> From: Alan Smith <[email protected]> >> To: WAMUG Mailing List <[email protected]> >> Subject: Thunderbolt Dock causing SuperDuper problem? >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 >> >> SuperDuper suffers very long delays in its start-up sequence when my Elgato >> Thunderbolt 2 dock is connected, but is OK when the dock is unplugged. >> >> Dave Ninian of Shirt Pocket (SuperDuper) said - >> ?The delay is caused by the OS X "volume retrieval" call, which is taking a >> long time to return a list of volumes and their attributes ? (and) ? We do >> not interact directly with any drive hardware - the OS is returning all the >> info, and the delay is in there." >> >> Any comment or suggestions to identify and reduce the OS delay? >> >> The dock normally has no drives attached, but these become available for use >> in about 1 to 2 seconds when plugged in. SuperDuper operation doesn?t change >> if these extended drives are awake and operational. Option to ?remember >> source and destination volumes? is unchecked in SuperDuper preferences (but >> delay still occurs if checked). >> >> Regards, >> Alan >> >> Alan Smith >> Late 2012 iMac 27" Intel Quad Core i5 Fusion 3.2GHz 8G RAM - OSX 10.10.5 >> Yosemite >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
