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Hi,
Recently I got a strange problem, sometime Finder doesn't show any window, I mean if I click on the Finder icon on the Dock no window is shown. Even if I kill Finder (via Terminal using "killall Finder"), also using ⌘+TAB or the App exposuré gesture there is no way to see the Finder window. The only fix is to restart the system!
And I also noticed (this is happen always) that when I copy/move a file the progress bar message box is not shown anymore, I see only the progress in the Finder panel over the file name!
Thank you.

Yes, menu bar was visible, honestly I didn't try to use ⌘+N, anyway I used ⌃+Click on the Finder icon (on the Dock) and even if I was able to see the list of Finder windows that were open I wasn't able to switch clickin on it. I've also tried to click on "New windows" (that I think should be the same as press ⌘+N) but no window was shown.
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