Finder closes after having deleted files or folders

OSX 10.8.2
Finder 10.8.1
A Finder window closes after having deleted eg all files in a subfolder or after having deleted a subfolder. It's only since a couple of weeks that Finder shows this behavior... This behavior is very odd and causes me to open each time again a finder window when doing clean up ...
Any clue?

I usually find thing sort of thing happens when you have mobile home directories set up but then log into those accounts as network user accounts.
Another thing I would check is that file/folder permissions match between the mobile home account and the server version of the account… both should be owned and writable by the account holder. If a user can't write and overwrite files across the board things will also constantly get kicked back as you describe.
My guess is that you didn't set the accounts up correctly in the first place by cutting corners by copying/duplicating between them.

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