Finder behaving strangely

Hi,
I've been having some problems with Finder recently. The first is the left hand column, when I start the computer, is not wide enough, so a lot of the items come up as Applic.... or Docum.... How can I stop this happening?
Also, I seem to have the issue where whenever I click on the Applications tab, it comes up in Columns View. I don't like this and would prefer it to open in Icons view. When I click on Applications and it comes up in this view, and I do not change it, any other tab I click on (say Pictures), all of that will also have been changed to Column View, when it was not like that before. I've tried getting rid of all the .plist's so I'm a little stuck.
I am also Admin on this computer
Thanks,
George.

It fixed itself. Very strange!

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Hi everybody,
After upgrading to Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite, my Finder is behaving strange. Every time I open op a new Finder window, it appears like below image. The icons look very strange and they are not clickable, well you can click something and notice a change in the window name in the top.
I really don't know what is happening, nor don't I know what to search for, to find a solution, as I even can describe i properly.
My Mac specs is as below:
I hope some of you guys might be able to help!
Love and cheers!
Kenn Nielsen,
Denmark

Is Dropbox the only application you are seeing this in? Try the list and column view to see if you get the same thing.
Try a restart.
Do a backup, using either Time Machine or a cloning program, to ensure files/data can be recovered. Two backups are better than one.
Try setting up another admin user account to see if the same problem continues. If Back-to-My Mac is selected in System Preferences, the Guest account will not work. The intent is to see if it is specific to one account or a system wide problem. This account can be deleted later.
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Try booting into the Safe Mode using your normal account. Disconnect all peripherals except those needed for the test. Shut down the computer and then power it back up after waiting 10 seconds. Immediately after hearing the startup chime, hold down the shift key and continue to hold it until the gray Apple icon and a progress bar appear and again when you log in. The boot up is significantly slower than normal. This will reset some caches, forces a directory check, and disables all startup and login items, among other things. When you reboot normally, the initial reboot may be slower than normal. If the system operates normally, there may be 3rd party applications which are causing a problem. Try deleting/disabling the third party applications after a restart by using the application un-installer. For each disable/delete, you will need to restart if you don’t do them all at once.
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Hi I'm running 10.7.2 on a 27-inch iMac 11,1 (Late 2009). Everything has been working great up until a few weeks ago. I can't remember if it was after an update or what.
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