Finder And Trash Will Not Open
The problem arose about an hour ago, I went to click on the Finder icon in the dock, but to my surprise, nothing popped up. I tried again and again, but still nothing. I researched how to solve this issue, and I came across two solutions which did not work for me. I tried deleting the Finder Plist but after right clicking and pressing empty trash, nothing happened. I attempted to open trash. Nothing. I tried to Log Out, shut down, restart, and sleep. Nothing was working. I Repaired my Disk but nothing changed except smaller icons on my desktop. I finally managed to delete the plist file in my trash. But yet again. Nothing. If anyone can help me, it would be very much appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
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Go to ~/Library/Preferences and move the com.apple.Dock.plist file to the Trash.
Restart your Mac.
And go here for help to Resolve Trash Problems
Disk but nothing changed except smaller icons on my desktop.
Right or control click your MacintoshHD on your Desktop. Click: Show View Options
You can change the icon sizes there.
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