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Finder Closes when I try to open Macintosh HD
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<blockquote data-quote="jb4647" data-source="post: 1076523" data-attributes="member: 163829"><p><strong>I think I solved it</strong></p><p></p><p>I tried the deleting the .DS_Store and that did't work. </p><p></p><p>Upon further research, I deleted com.apple.finder.plist and that seemed to do the trick. I'm now able to view the contents of Macintosh HD.</p><p></p><p>A couple of funny things though. </p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I'm not able to see anything but in the icons view, trying to change it to list, coverflow or columns shuts Finder down.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">In addtion to my normal system folders there are several files with gibberish names. I'm curious as to if these are normal files. I've included a screen capture below:</li> </ul><p></p><p><a href="http://joshbur****.smugmug.com/Computers/Screen-Shots/Roberts-Family-1/920249836_niKgF-X3.jpg" target="_blank">http://joshbur****.smugmug.com/Computers/Screen-Shots/Roberts-Family-1/920249836_niKgF-X3.jpg</a></p><p></p><p>replace **** with ****</p><p></p><p>What do you all think?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jb4647, post: 1076523, member: 163829"] [b]I think I solved it[/b] I tried the deleting the .DS_Store and that did't work. Upon further research, I deleted com.apple.finder.plist and that seemed to do the trick. I'm now able to view the contents of Macintosh HD. A couple of funny things though. [LIST] [*]I'm not able to see anything but in the icons view, trying to change it to list, coverflow or columns shuts Finder down. [*]In addtion to my normal system folders there are several files with gibberish names. I'm curious as to if these are normal files. I've included a screen capture below: [/LIST] [URL="http://joshbur****.smugmug.com/Computers/Screen-Shots/Roberts-Family-1/920249836_niKgF-X3.jpg"]http://joshbur****.smugmug.com/Computers/Screen-Shots/Roberts-Family-1/920249836_niKgF-X3.jpg[/URL] replace **** with **** What do you all think? [/QUOTE]
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