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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1808411" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Do you have any third party add on utility software that "enhances" Finder in any way? The only thing I can think of is that the com.apple.finder.plist is being edited by something other than Finder. That file is where Finder stores things like window location and size. What killall does is to stop all Finder processes, after which the system restarts Finder and reads the plist again to set the defaults for Finder fresh. So if some third party software is changing the plist, then when Finder launches, it reads the wrong settings from the plist.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1808411, member: 396914"] Do you have any third party add on utility software that "enhances" Finder in any way? The only thing I can think of is that the com.apple.finder.plist is being edited by something other than Finder. That file is where Finder stores things like window location and size. What killall does is to stop all Finder processes, after which the system restarts Finder and reads the plist again to set the defaults for Finder fresh. So if some third party software is changing the plist, then when Finder launches, it reads the wrong settings from the plist. [/QUOTE]
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