Finder bug

I noticed this bug with excel and few other apps in Leopard:
1. double-click an excel file, foo.xls, to open
2. Do a Hide Others (optioncommandH or from the Excel menu).
3. Type something on the spreadsheet.
4. Save (apple+S or from the File Menu)
The finder window that contains foo.xls comes on the foreground. If you type on the spreadsheet at this point, the spreadsheet does NOT come into the foreground.
The remedy I have found: after the file is opened, make sure foo.xls is NOT selected in the Finder window that contains it. Of course, when you double-click the file to open it, it will become selected, and will remain selected after the file opens. You'll have to go back to the Finder window and click somewhere else to deselect the file.
If others see the same, or have better solutions, I'd like to know.
Themis

Strange... I can consistently reproduce this behavior on two different computers, even after upgrading to 10.5.1. Excel, Word, Mathematica, and few other apps (but not pages, keynote,...) all do the same thing.
To observe this bug, the finder window that contains the file must be open and the file must be selected (highlighted).
Themis

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BIG n EVIL Finder Bug!

After "converting" our last co-worker to Mac, she found (in astounding 45 Minutes OSX) an extremely evil Finder bug.
Don't try it, it's no fun to correct if afterwards:
In a normal OSX Finder Window, you can change the name of the home folder link in the left part of the window with a right-click-order "change name of usershortname" (or something like that, I use a german system).
IF you do this, your home folder will NOT be renamed but a new pseudo-user folder will be made. Your files remain in the old folder, but your system thinks the new is the right one, which will produce some nice errors. All new files (prefs etc.) will be put in the new folder.
It just took me an hour to restore her personal files (freshly imported from her old pc - in the middle of which she changed the name of the link because OSX changed her Umlaut-Name falsely to a Non-umlaut-Name ...) (another bug, by the way, but a small one)
- by the way: Any idea how to change the user - shortname?
Xian

Christian
Welcome to Apple Discussions!!
This bug is well known, and a nuisance!
I can't change the short name of a user account
Mac OS X 10.3, 10.4 or later: Return to Default Desktop, Apparent "Loss" of Home Directory
To change the short name:
Mac OS X: How to Change User Short Name or home directory name.
There is also a ChangeShortName application which is available via MacUpdate or VersionTracker.
Oh, I see Malcolm beat me to it!
Message was edited by: Michael Conniff

Finder bug in icon view. can anyone help me?

So, I'm experiencing a weird bug since I've installed OS X Mountain Lion.
When I set 'show items as icons' in Finder, the font used to label the files and folders are most of the time kinda messed up.
(they're not the normal black clean fonts, but they are like a really pale ugly and hard to read gray color)
And it's not like I'm using different fonts of whatever, it's a font smoothing/rendering issue.
If I turn off the 'Use LCD font smoothing when available', fonts are OK again.
The problem is that when I enter another folder, they are messed up again. Then I enable again the font smoothing option and they are ok (for that folder).
When I go back to the parent folder, they are gray again.
Also, when I make them "OK" with the LCD font option switch, they also become "NOT OK" as soon as I select them. (not individually, but making a box...yeah, weird uh?)
Really weird. I've tried to restart/ force quit the finder (which again, fix the issue just within the home folder) / adjust permission (maybe I've messed up something, I dunno).
Btw, it is not a clean install and I remember experiencing the same problem with Lion, one of the first days I've installed it, but then it went away (forever) after a day, so I didn't bother too much to find the cause.
Again, it seems like some sort of finder bug, the million question is: Why am I (apparently) the only one experiencing it? Thx for help

Hi Giorgiovdb!
Unfortunately I cannot help you; all I did was test for you.
I did an upgrade over my Lion install with Mountain Lion which went fine. I just tested icon view in my Finder on different files and folders and here in my installation all stays fine; good readable like in column view!
The only thing you might try is change your Font in Finder and set it back to the original afterwards!
I quickly Google'd how to change fonts in the Finder as appearantly there's no obvious gui item for it:
http://usermanifest.wordpress.com/2012/07/06/osx-finder-title-bar-font/
Try to see if it brings you anywhere!
At my post all fonts act normal after my upgrade to Mountain Lion; I don't do a clean install unless I really have to!
Goodluck!
Gaytan

Problem with my Macbook Finder Bug/ Problème avec mon MacBook Finder Bug

Hi, two days ago I took my Macbook Pro with me for my holidays, since then, the finder can't stop glitching (I'm on Mavericks) : every time I try to open a file, a document, even my preferences the finder bug and show me the colorful circle. Even when I'm on safari it continues to freeze during 20-30 seconds. Yesterday I did the new adobe flash player update and miracle, it worked for the evening. But when I started it this morning the glitches were back, I tried to do the update again but this time it didn't work. I don't know what to do, 3 days ago it was perfect and now it is full of glitches. I'm currently writing since 10 minutes because it freezes every 10 seconds. PS: I didn't download anything so it's not due to a bad download or a full memory.
Thanks for your answers if you saw this kind of case before.
Bonjour à tous, alors il y 2 jours j'ai pris mon Macbook Pro avec moi pour mes vacances et depuis le finder n'arrête pas de bugguer (Je suis sous Mavericks) et c'est la première fois qu'un problème de la sorte m'arrive. A chaque fois que j'essaie d'ouvrir un fichier, une fenetre ou meme les préférences le finder m'affiche le cercle multicolore et bug pendant 20-30 secondes. Même sur Safari l'ordi bug toutes les 20 secondes, en ce moment meme le message que je vous envoie bug et je prend actuellement 15 minutes à l'écrire. J'ai fais hier la MAJ d'adobe flash player et ça marchait par miracle pendant la soirée. Mais en le rallumant ce matin, le bug avait réapparu. J'ai réessayé de faire cette MAJ mais aucun résultat, je ne sais plus quoi faire. Il y a 3 jours mon ordi marchait nickel et là plus rien. PS: Ce n'est pas du à un mauvais téléchargement ni à un disque trop plein.
Merci de vos réponse si vous avez une idée ou déjà vu ce genre de cas.

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen. Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Then take one of the actions that you're having trouble with. Select any messages that appear in the Console window. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of which is irrelevant to solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

Smb v2 Finder bug / Mavericks

On all Mac running Mavericks 10.9 & 10.9.1 we have identified and reported a major bug when using SMB v2 file servers.
Sumary
The Finder can't rename a remote folder on an SMB v2 file server.
Meanwhile, with the same file server mounted from the same version of Mavericks,
accessing the mounted filesystem through the command line interface (i.e. with Terminal, xterm or ssh).
it is possible to rename a folder.
It is also possible to rename any plain file i.e. the bug is limited to the Finder
and to directories.
If switched to smbv1, then this Finder bug isn't happening.
Debugging
I'm investing this bug and discovered that on MacOS X there exists
a kernel extension debugging flag that I can turn on.
This flag is kloglevel and used within /etc/nsmb.conf .
I haven't been able to find a documentation about the use of this kernel
extension debugging flag (is this a bitmask or a boolean or a level).
Where is this information? Is there any documentation to make any other
debugging at the Finder level?

I'm having similar issues connecting from 10.7.3 to Win Server 2003. I am getting messages that I don't have access to copy and rename things even though I am connected as the system administrator. At one point, I got two similar share points showing up even though I had only one connection.
Disconnecting and reconnecting seems to help for a while.

Lion finder bugs

hi - just wanted to report some finder bugs that I hope mac developers are already addressing.
1) apple-tab to the finder does not automatically switch to the correct desktop space where finder windows automatically open or are already open... when I apple-tab to the finder then create a new window it works, but there shouldn't be an extra step. I'm also curious why my previous preferences for which space applications open in has been preserved with the lion upgrade but the way to edit those preferences has been taken away... troblesom since I'd previously arranged all applications to work based on a 3x3 grid with the finder opperating center at space 5... now that a grid is no longer an option I might want to re-organize and not rely on automatic re-ordering.
2) when I choose to view folders by the various options sometimes the categories (yesterday - previous 7 days - etc) will appear as folders in a list rather than dividers. Doesn't happen often but bugs the heck out of me when it does. Closing and reopening the window fixes it, as well as changing to do a different organization mode and back again... a little detail - but thats what makes mac great after all.
thanks guys - overall I'm enjoying lion very much.
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also...
3) when I 4-finger shift between spaces some finder windows which are apparently stuck in limbo appear during the transition then are gone again.

New Finder bug in 10.7.2 - overwriting file w/authenticated move fails and zeroes out target file too

I have found a new bug in the Finder for Lion 10.7.2
In 10.7 and 10.7.1, if I downloaded a new version of an application, and wanted to drag it to /Applications or /Applications/Utilities, here is what happened:
1) Try to drag to one of these protected directories, in order to copy it over the old version.
2) Get a dialog box saying "The item XXX could not be moved because "Utilities" couldn't be modified." This dialog would have two choices: "Authenticate" or "Cancel"
3) Click "Authenticate"
4) Get another dialog: "An older item named XXX already exists in this location. Do you want to replace it with the newer one you're moving?" Choices would be "Keep Both Files" "Stop" and "Replace"
5) On clicking "Replace", the OS would ask for an admin password.
6) You would give it, and then the OS would copy the new file. Done.
Now, in Lion 10.7.2's Finder, after steps 1-5, there is a new dialog:
"This operation couldn't be completed because some files had to be skipped. For each item, chose File > Get Info, make sure "Locked" is deselected, and then check the Sharing and Permissions section. When you are sure the items are unlocked and not designated as Read Only or No Access, try again."
"OK is the only choice to exit this dialog.
AND
the target file is in fact overwritten with an empty file! So your folder now contains a nonfunctional app, while the new version can't be copied over it!
You can, in fact, go in and delete the zeroed-out app and drag the new copy into the folder. But authenticated overwriting appears dangerously broken.
(And what an error message! Sounds like someone from the Windows 2000 team thought that one up...")
I'm not a developer, but if any registered developers would care to replicate this and file it as a bug, I'd be very grateful.

Yup. Thomas, have you tried replicating this in the other direction? In Terminal you can make a folder, chown it to root, get the permissions to the same as those of /Applications/Utilities, then as a normal user, try dragging something
into that folder? I have - this is replicable.
This is a real bug - worked ok until 10.7.2, then broke.
I have worked around this bug by changing the permissions on my Applications and Applications/Utilities folders so that my account has write permission there without authentication. But that not ideal from a security standpoint.
If any developer out there could fire a Radar report off on this, I'd be much obliged.

AFP Finder Bug Report/Collapse AFP Folders over the Command Line

Hello,
I have a MacPro server that I am using to deliver scanned images of business recoreds. I absolutely love how cover flow and spotlight work toghether and in fact this is one of the main reasons I chose Apple in 2009.
However, the number of records has grown quite a lot. Somehow today a user opened/expanded all of the folders and now every user is seeing all folders expanded. Unforunately it has become impossible to get a directory listing because there are over a million pages opening previews. This has caused my business to come to a grinding halt!
So my suggestion to Apple is that this is a bug! This is just like Lion that remembers which windows and applications are open and what a mess that created for people who open a lot of windows and so many users looked to create a workaround to prevent this either for specific applicaitons or to disable it all together. Fortunately in Lion updates and ML it is possible to disable this feature. This needs to be changed because because when a computer defaults to opening windows and resources not requested by the user(s) it bogs down the entire system and degrades the user's experience on the application they are actually working on. Who in their right mind would want Safari to open up Drudge Report, CNN, Yahoo, every dirty movie I've ever watched and 50 pages of LOL Cats if I just want to check the weather or try and find a good resteraunt to take my wife to dinner. Opening windows or folders by default is not an elegant use of our computer resources, is not minimalist design, and is not helpful in any way whatsoever. These features create nothing but dust and clutter and users should demand these so called features be turned off by default.
And my question for the super users: HOW CAN I FIX THIS? There must be a plist file I can delete and recreate or at least edit? A permissions change to prevent this from happening again? Sudo something?
Thanks,
Jake
p.s. A new MacPro with thunderbolt would be nice.

Thank you. Yes it is a read only directory so I am flummoxed as to how .dsstore was modified? I have tested multiple times to be sure users cannot accidentally delete or modify an archived file. tomorrow I will look to see how ds store was modified.
Users upload files into a drop box and they are inserted with rsync to prevent overwrites. Several pitfalls to using finder for this purpose most notably the tendency to overwrite completely a folder so files may get deleted. These are important records so early on I set it up so once a file was inserted it could not be removed without logging in as a specific management user.
But the user interface is so awesome to view the files I just can't imagine a competitive product being so nice as to scroll through the pages in cover flow like you are flipping through a file. Most of the time I can scan the files' contents without even oppening preview or even hitting the space bar. Cover flow gives me the intuitive feel of paper I like.
If you have a product to suggest I would look at it.
Jake

A Finder bug (or bad design) -- cmd+del while renaming

This reproducible behavior is quite confusing:
1. In a Finder window, click on a file twice to enter the renaming mode.
2. Type some new file name.
3. While still in renaming mode, press Command+Delete.
4. The file will be moved to the Trash, yet in the Edit menu it says "Undo Rename".
5. If you choose to undo, the file will be un-renamed, but stays in the Trash.
What I wanted to do in step 3 was to press Fn+Delete, in order to produce a backspace, and when I accidentally pressed the wrong buttons, the file disappears, and when I use Undo, the file doesn't come back. Worst yet, when I clicked the Trash icon in the Dock, the Trash window doesn't come up, but that's another bug (which killall Dock doesn't help).
The above experience was very confusing. I suggest disabling the Cmd+Delete function while in renaming mode. Also, multi-step undo would be nice. Visual cue/animation for all file operations would be great too.
Ever since I upgraded my Tiger to Leopard, there are many bad experiences every week that makes me want to kill Leopard (if it's some hurtable thing..). I used to love Mac OS X. Now I am considering switching back to Linux.

Of course whenever we get confused by something we think that the interface should be changed to address that specific issue but every possible user confusion can't lead to an amendment of the system.
Specifically:
Multi-level undo means that we wouldn't have redo
The described behaviour only happens when you have made changes to the name before Command+Delete and that means you are suggesting that the interface would behave differently when a file name is changed until you have clicked something else to get out of that mode (which could be a problem for the way I work)
Although there is no animation, there is a distinctive click when something is transferred into Trash
My vote goes for the current behaviour.

OS X Mavericks Finder Bugs?

Upon updating my iMac to OS X Mavericks I noticed that Cover Flow contained a few annoyances and I have yet to find any discussions about this particular one. I've always used Cover Flow since I migrated to Mac but this seems specific to Mavericks. Everytime I open my Home folder the icons in the actual black scrollable area of Cover Flow would always resize to 180px x 140px.
I can resize them after I open the folder and that would make them the specified size until I close the window, but it would revert back upon opening it again. I even set my preferred sizea as the default in the Show View Options dialog box but that amounts to nothing.
I was wondering if anyone else has this issue, and if so, have you found a fix? I've sent a bug report to Apple already so I'm eager to see what they include in the next software update as well as your personal reports on this too.
Thanks in advance!

Hi,
From memory, it went like this:
In Finder, I have an icon in the toolbar marked 'Arrange'. If you don't have it, go to Finder and under the View menu select 'Customise Toolbar'.The customise panel appears and you can drag and drop the Arrange icon onto your toolbar.
Click on the down arrow on the Arrange icon and you will see a drop down menu. Click on an option e.g. name (i.e. arrange folder contents by name). This should make your invisible files appear. I had to do this for most of the folders in Favorites on the Finder toolbar. One or two were ok anyway for some reason.
i hope this makes sense and answers your question. Sorry if I have used incorrect technical terms!

Yosemite Finder: bug when dragging files in full screen

I use my Finder in full screen mode.
When I drag files through some folders, the entire content of the window moves up so that I cannot see the top files in any column anymore.
The only solution to this bug is to end full screen and then start full screen again.
Is this really a bug or a function I do not understand? And how can I prevent this from happening, because it is really annoying?
I encountered this bug on my old iMac 27" and my new iMac 5K.
Attached to this post is a screenshot what it looks like.

Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem solved sooner.
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Or you can use your Apple ID to register with this site and go the Apple BugReporter. Supposedly you will get an answer if you submit feedback.
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Finder Bug Renaming files with cover flow

If I try to rename a file using finder with cover flow using left and right arrows for moving in the filename, it goes up and down on file selection

A similar issue is evident in "List" view, when renaming a file inside a folder whose "disclosure triangle" is expanded. If you happen to be working a few levels down, it closes them all.
Maddening!
If you feel so inclined, please submit a bug report. Hopefully issues that receive a lot of complaints will be addressed.
http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter/

Finder bugging

Hi,
Since a couple of weeks Finder has been bugging pretty nasty and I can't seem to figure out why.
What happens is that when I'm in Finder browsing files, after a couple of seconds usually, it just stops working.
It's not freezing in a normal way.. It seems like the interface is freezing. The windows look buggy, file names or icons are missing and I can't click on anything or navigate anywhere.
This is an example of what the crashed window might look like:
Note how this is my home directory. Pretty empty right?
When I force quit/relaunch the thing (it doesn't state not responding, my MBP seems to think it's running without problems), it goes back to normal, only to go back to the drunk state I just described within a minute.
What is the cause of this problem? How can I solve this? I have verified and repaired both my partitions. Has my memory died? Other apps run fine.
I'm on a mid-2010 MBP, Mavericks 10.9.2.

Two things to try and rule out possibilities.
1) Use another account. Do you see the problem there?
2) Boot into Safe Mode and use your Account. Do you see the problem then?
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1564

Finder bug : presentation mode lost ...

With the global Finder, navigate in new window (same thing with the other setting, and navigate with command/pomme open), the parent
window can lost his presentation setting.
To reproduce the bug :
- Make a new folder.
- Apply a icon view, with "always" option, always navigate in icon view deselected.
- Make a new sub-folder in it.
- Open it (in a new window), apply the column view.
- Close the two windows (parent and sub-folder).
- Reopen the parent window, and boom, it's in column view, bye bye always open in icon view ...
My configuration comes from a clean install (in fact a brand new machine, no migration applied).
This bug also appeared in Lion ...
I've tried other view modes, and it seams the bug appears with two distand modes (icon / column or column / icon),
not with two consecutive ones (icon / list or list/column) !
Strange, have you said strange ?

I have come up with a workaround, although not really a fix. But at least it allows you to not have to use Chrome, which is a battery hog for me so far in Mavericks.
The Barbarian Group has a freeware app called "Plainview", which seems to be just a wrapper around Webkit. It works as a "Fullscreen kiosk-style presentation content viewer", similar to what Chrome presentation mode does.
Anyways, it's a free download, so no risk in trying. Scroll almost to the bottom of this page:
http://barbariangroup.com
Direct download:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/plainviewapp/plainview_1.0.178.zip

Finder bug: copying locked and not-locked items

At least, I think it's a bug:
* Make two files. Lock one, leave the other unlocked.
* Select both.
* Drag both into a folder. The plus-sign-in-a-circle mouse cursor appears.
* Drop them. The locked file is copied to the new folder, as I guess it should be. However -- the bug -- the unlocked file is also copied, not moved. I would think that only the locked file should be copied to the new location.
Not a big deal, although I suppose it would be a bigger deal if I were moving around a bunch of 10 GB files and forgot that one of them was locked.
Maybe somebody with an active Radar account for the Finder could file this? I think it's real...

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