Finder suddenly started opening folders in their own window

Hi everyone,
I'm wondering if anyone knows what might cause Finder to suddenly start opening folders in their own window even though the Finder preference to do that is unchecked? Before this started happening, all folders would open in the same window (the default behavior).
This happens whether I have my external keyboard plugged in or not and I've verified that the Command, ALT & Control keys are not stuck in any way on both the MBP keyboard and the external keyboard. I've also shutdown the MBP and restarted just to be sure.
Ideas? Is there a command line setting that I should look at or some config file that would tell me if it's incorrectly set?
Rey...

Two things to try:
1) check the box in Finder > Preferences > General tab, then relaunch Finder, then go back and UNcheck that box, and relaunch Finder again (to relaunch Finder, hold the option key and click-and-hold the Finder icon in the dock, then select Relaunch, or use Apple menu > Force Quit)
2) trash the file ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist, then restart (the OS will recreate the plist file; sometimes they become corrupt)

Similar Messages

My iPad 2 opens browsers on their own and types by itself how do I fix this problem?

MY iPad 2 opens browsers on their own and starts typing out of no where, how can I fix this problem?

Try a reboot,
Reboot the iPad by holding down on the sleep and home buttons at the same time for about 10-15 seconds until the Apple Logo appears - ignore the red slider if it appears on the screen - let go of the buttons. Let the iPad start up.

Opening image files in their own windows in PS4

Before PS4, I could open image files in their own windows. In PS4, when I want to open more than one file, these open with tabs and any new file I open is added to the tab queue. It is annoying to right click on each tab so each file is in its own window. Is there a universal preference to change this annoying behavior?
Using a Windows environment with Photoshop CS4 Extended.

see the tabs setting in the preferences. you can turn that off.

How to open multiple mail messages in their own windows

All:
Anyone know of a keyboard command to open several Mail messages in their own windows? For example, I can't highlight all messages in the Inbox and then double click one of them to open them all in separate windows.
Surprisingly, Mail lacks an Open... command.
TIA,
Mike
Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Just select multiple messages and hit Return.

Finder will not open folders on smb-resource

Finder will not open folders on smb-resource error occurs:
"Folder can not be opened because you do not have permission to view its contents." In Terminal all ok

Hi Alex, Just for confirmation, have you opened the Windows share in Nautilus directly i.e. using URL of the form smb://<server-name>/<share-name>/ and then trying to open the PDF file by double-clicking? If that is the case, it is a known issue. In the meantime, one way to open the PDF file (if you have sufficient privileges) would be to mount the SMB share, open the share (from the mount point) in Nautilus and then try to open the PDF by double-clicking? Could you please try this and let us know if there are any issues with this? Thanks for the feedback, Varun

Using Preview to view multiple images in their own window

So I'm using OS Tiger with Preview 3.0.9 and have selected "Open each image in its own window" in the Preview preferences. And this works, at least for the first 20 or so images. Then it automatically starts to open all subsequent images in the last window as little thumbnails that can be clicked on. When using my newer computer with Snow Leopard I am able to open (seemingly) unlimited windows, each showing its own image. However on this older maching, even with the correct preference setting, I can't view more than a few images at a time in their own window. I hate having all of the images grouped in a single window as it makes it very difficult for me to compare things. I have to keep clicking back and forth, back and forth. I want everything to be in its own window and I will choose to hide or have them floating onscreen, etc.
Is there a limit to how many this version of Preview will show?

Hi Steve, in 10.4.11 I just dragged 223 jpgs to Preview, all opened on one long page or series of pages.
I'd get GraphicConverter, all 223 opened in a seperate window, but you can use it's powerful Browse function to preview & open the ones you want...
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/263

Want to open folders in the SAME window

I just did a clean install of Leopard, and now whenever I open a folder I get a new window! I doesn't matter what the status of the checkbox "Always open folders in a new window" is in the Finder preferences. I ALWAYS get a new window. Are there any preferences to delete, or other option to stop this?

I need help on this also. I had the problem on 10.4 and hoped that it would go away with Leopard. It has not.
I tried trashing the finder preferences in USER Library and restarting to no avail.
Any help would be appreciated.

Windows Explorer always opens folders in a new window

Yes, yes, I've googled it already. And bing-ed it just for fun too.
This doesn't work:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/samewindow.htm
Nor does this:
http://blog.hansmelis.be/2009/05/17/windows-vista-explorer-opens-folders-in-a-new-window/
Yes, yes, I've checked the Open in same folder option in folder options.
I've used shellex to disable context menu items.
I've rebooted a hundred times.
This is rediculous. Windows should only recognize ONE setting for this and that is the one in folder options. Anything else that affects it is a BUG!
I'm on build 7100 RC.
And I'm quite frustrated with this.
Please help!
Jared

<<...tried to import the key from that known-good windows installation ...... (but
was 64bits)...>>
importing x64 keys to an x86 installation may not work. HKLM\WOW6432Node\Classes\Interface would have to be combined with (overwrite)
the standard location and then that be copied/imported to the x86 install. Even then, there might be some unanticipated problems.
It's good that you had a registry backup available in system restore. Although I like the inherent security and reliability in the Vista/Win7 system restore implementations, one thing that I miss was being able to pluck only the registry files from
a restore point; like I used to do with WinXP.
<<...Yes, my case is precisely (Windows Explorer always opens folders in a new window) on
Win7. ....>>
Also, that is too general. There is more nitty-gritty details that have to be verified, such as whether the issue is per-user,
or whether the "Explore" option is in bold and works properly when manually selected. In a lot of cases, that simply may not be in bold which means it's no longer the default action on double-click. (requires different set of steps to resolve,
focusing on another part of the registry) But from what you've stated on JAVA update 20, there well could be some changes to the HKLM portion of that Interface key... don't know. A before and after registry compare usually helps pin down the issue.
EDIT 10y04m24d_130735:
One other thing that occurs to me, is that the dreaded Yahoo toolbar often installs with Sun Microsystems's JAVA. I've removed such toolbars on many browsers because they render IE8 unstable/unreliable with occasional to routine freezes/crashes.

How do I get playlists to pop out into their own windows in 11?

I Think I could live with 11, if I could get playlists to pop up in their own windows. That How I create playlists, I have it side by side with my library.. there has got to be a way where you can still do that, right? I'm terrified of going back a step, because I don't want to reinstall 80,000+ MP3's and if I lose my hundreds of playlists, that's 8 years work down the drain!

You will need to connect from the headphone out jact to the input for the speaker on the monitor. The Video cable does not carry audio.

Finder Crashing When Opening Folders Containing JPEG Images

Here's my odd problem.
Finder seems to work okay until I open folders with certain JPEG images in them. Specifically, it seems to crash whenever I open a folder that has images taken with my old Oregon Scientific camera. It gets a little bit annoying, because once I open the folder, Finder crashes... and then it re-launches, +with the problem window still open+... which causes it to crash immediately upon re-opening. And then it re-launches again, again with the same window open, which causes it to crash again, and on and on into the night.
Incidentally... these images also seem to crash Preview. I never had any problem with this before. They worked fine under 10.5, they worked fine under 10.4... they even work fine on OS9. I've tried turning off icon previews, I've tried list view and icon view and coverflow and all that, and it crashes every single time.
If I use GraphicConverter to re-save the images WITHOUT the EXIF data, then Finder seems to be okay. But considering I have nearly a thousand images that were taken with that (decidedly unsophisticated) camera, it's really an inconvenience to convert every single one. On top of it, I'd kind of like to keep my EXIF data where it is.
I'm really kind of starting to regret not waiting for 10.6.1 before installing, because I've encountered problem after problem... and my fiance's iMac is almost unusable, it's so buggy. Most of the issues I've encountered I can live with, at least long enough for Apple to release an update... but this Finder issue is killing me, because I can't even access my photos.
Anyone have this same issue, or some idea of how to fix it?

I've duplicated this behavior on both my MacBook and my fiance's iMac, which are both running 10.6. With my 10.4-enabled G4 and iMac G3, there's no problems.
I think I've at least figured out the actual cause. I just opened a folder of pictures taken with my Oregon Scientific DShot II camera, and it didn't crash the Finder, nor did it kill Preview. The EXIF data was intact. The difference was that with these images, I'd edited them and re-saved with GraphicConverter when I first took them.
After repeating the tests with some other pictures, I think that the problem isn't so much with the EXIF data as it is with the +preview image+. The DShot II camera saves some kind of a preview image (which isn't very good). When I edited these images with GraphicConverter, the application added it's own custom preview, overwriting the original.
For some reason, Finder (and Preview, though I don't know why) handle GraphicConverter's preview image, but can't seem to be able to deal with the preview image that the DS2 embedded into the image. Why this should change with 10.6, when all previous versions of the software worked perfectly fine, I have no idea.
AJH

Why start some daemon as their own users (e.g. mpd, transmission)

In the arch wiki it is shown how to set up this daemons so that they start as their own users,a user for each daemon. Why not just use you user, the same as with normal commands ? Is it because of security ?

It is because of security, indeed. Every process should run with the exact set of permissions it needs to fulfill its task. But in the cases of MPD and transmission, it is mostly because Linux is designed as a multi-user system. In an optimal setting, there should only be one MPD and one torrent client running on a single system, so running the daemons as on their own users makes a lot of sense, because those daemons have interfaces, that can be fine-tuned to allow or block certain users and sources.
As a rule of thumb, if a daemon does not require either root access (eg. is not a system process) or read/write access to user's folders in /home (like the dropbox "daemon" would), them it is wise to run it as its own user. It's both, more secure and easier to maintain.

How to make pictures not resize when opened in their own window.

I just upgraded to Safari v3 and despite all the good changes I've found one frustrating thing. In the old version when I opened a picture in its own window and it was bigger than what could fit in the window it wouldn't resize. It just came up as a full-resolution image. But with the new version, it does the thing that I hated with internet explorer and resizes it to fit the screen. It's not a big deal but it's enough to bug me.
I've searched the preferences menus and this discussion board, but I still can't find a way to change it back to the old way of not adjusting.
Is it even possible or will I have to get used to it?
Thanks!

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5846081

Both my iPhones have started playing music on their own

I have an iPhone 5c and my wife has a brand new iPhone 5s. Last week, her phone suddenly started playing the Pup Fiction soundtrack without any reason I was out of town at the time).
Yesterday and today, my iPhone started playing the Dexter theme tune, which I use as my ringtone (my wife doesn't use Pulp Fiction as her ring tone - she doens't even listen to it).
Both phones share an iTunes account, but we each have our own iCloud account for email, calendars, documents, etc.
In all three cases of this happening, neither phone was being used. They were just sitting on the desk.
What could be causing this?

jonfromhemel hempstead wrote:
I have done a reset before and the problem went away and came back again.
When the problem happens the IPad becomes unusable. Can touch anything on the screen or even the home or power button.
The only thing that works is a reset.
A brightness icon comes up big on the screen as well when this is happening
In that case you may want to consider resetting to factory settings (basically starting over from scratch). Or a trip to the Genious bar at your local Apple store, if you have one close by.

All windows/applications keep minimizing on their own Windows 8.1

Hi. I turned on my laptop today and suddenly found that all my applications (Chrome, Skype, Norton, etc.) keep minimizing on their own approximately every 1-2 minutes. The mouse is constantly doing this twitch thing (it flickers every second and the little
loading circle comes up). It doesn't seem to be affected by typing, it occurs with and without keyboard/mouse interaction. I've installed nothing new that I'm aware about since last night, when this problem did not exist. I've manually turned off and turned
my laptop back on, I've restarted it, I tried to run a scan but Norton is being a pain (am currently running a quick scan). Usually whenever my computer is acting up (unusually slow), I just restart it and it's fine. But I've tried to restart/turn off and
on three times now and I can't find a fix.
This is on Windows 8.1 (please no Windows 7 exclusive answers. They're all I can find). I have not recently updated to Windows 8.1. I updated a few weeks ago (it was a forced update).
And I don't think I have ioBit.
Update: This thing called whiteskyservices (http://services.whiteskyservices.com/addons/chrome/install.aspx?id=eeihfhnbnfemlajfadhbpdfiipncebl) popped up asking for a Constant Guard update (I never update Constant Guard, it's horrible). I x'ed out and the
mouse flashing I mentioned has stopped, but the random minimizing has not.
Update: I tried to disable Superfetch, that didn't work either.
Update: Sometimes, it minimizes and then returns back to the window.
Update: My mouse has erratically begun doing the flickering thing again.

Hi itzarah,
I can’t open and test the link you provide, please check. Share us a screenshot if you willing to.
Please explain a bit about the following questions to avoid misunderstanding:
1. Do you mean that the Windows 8 automatically upgrade to Windows 8.1 a few weeks ago?
2. Is this computer domain-based?
3. Does everything minimize on their own? Windows explorer, desktop apps and metro apps?
4. What is the result about the Norton scan?
Please take the following steps for troubleshooting:
1. As this is a laptop, please check if the mouse flickering caused by the touchpad. Please update the touchpad driver to the last version from the manufacturer website and check if this issue still exists.
2. Unplug the mouse and check if this issue still exists
3. Run the Anti-virus software to scan malware.
Best regards,
Fangzhou CHEN
Fangzhou CHEN
TechNet Community Support

Opening folders with & without new window....

I have just installed Tiger and updated it with 10.4.7.
For both 10.4.6 and 10.4.7 I have been unable to get folders to open in the same window instead of a new one. I have tried checking the box under the Preferences of Finder but it makes no difference. Every folder always opens in a new window.
What am I doing or not doing?
Thanks.

It still isn't doing what I want it to do.
Let me be certain that you understand my question. I can get this to open a folder in the same window as the parent folder. But in order to get this, I need to have the tool bar on. What I am wanting to do is not have the tool bar visible but still have folders open in the same window. This is the way that I remember the previous OS working.
Anyway, I was able to insert the parameter where you showed me, change it to Boolean, and set it to "No". It stays "No" even when I changed the window settings to hide the tool bar but still opens folders in new windows.
My suspicions are that I either have corrupted SW or that this is something that is not possible under 10.4.X.

Finder suddenly started opening folders in their own window

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for