Finder window stuck

After using spotlight in a search, the show all command leads to a finder window that is stuck open and empty. What is wrong?

Please enable guest logins and log in as Guest. Test Spotlight a few times. Same problem?
After testing, log out of the guest account and disable it if you wish.
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Alias on Finder Window STUCK

You know when you open a Finder window? Up near the back button an alias for a .dv file appeared today. I'm not sure how I got it there, but there it is.
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Files with .dv extensions are Digital Video so I would assume that it is from a digital video camera. If you double click on it what happens?
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Problem with the Finder window in Chrome

Hello,
I have a problem with my finder window in Chrome.
Since the window isn't a separate window anymore, but stuck to the top of the webpage, my finder window is too big. I can't read the "Cancel" or "Send" (I have no idea what's supposed to be there in English but I assume it's something like "send" and "cancel") buttons. I have provided some images of the problem, even if I make the Chrome window as small as possible, the finder window still is too big for my screen. I can resize the finder window from lest to right, but not up or down, which is extremely irritating for me.
If anyone can help me how I can solve this problem.
Thanks!

I found the solution on another thread...Here it is.
"I was having the same problem. I found a way to make it smaller. First, I opened chrome and clicked the green button on the window to make chrome go into full screen. Then I tried to save a file to make the finder window open in chrome. When it opened in full screen I could see the bottom of the window so I resized it to make it a little smaller. Once I did this it remembered the size so now I can access the bottom buttons when I take it out of full screen mode. Hope this helps."
Worked like a charm!

Finder Windows Will Not Close

I have strange behaviour appearing since I have been using Snow Leopard, and it manifests itself on at least three different Macs. I cannot find any references to it, but I intermittently have Finder windows that stay open (I cannot close them, either with the button, the Close Window command or the command-W key combination). If I log out and in again, I am able to close them, and I am also able to do it by force-quitting Finder (though once that managed to fail to restart the Finder at all, so I don't like doing that - I then started to just leave the "extra" windows open - I don't think I have ever ended up with more than two "stuck" windows). It doesn't happen to all windows, only some of them, and I have not yet been able to work out why they get "stuck". I run my Finder with the sidebar turned off, but sometimes turn it on temporarily using the keyboard to go to another computer (on our "network" of connected Macs at home). I tend to have several Finder windows open at once, using command double click to open additional ones. I am not sure, but I think the windows may get stuck when I command click the sidebar to open Finder windows showing details of other computers. No matter where I navigate to in the window once it is open, using the sidebar or not, I still cannot close it. When I try to close it, I can see the close button flash in the top left-hand corner of the window, but it doesn't close. The Close command on the menus is visible (not greyed-out) but also just makes the corner flash before failing to close the window.
Does anyone know how to shut the windows down without force-quitting the Finder? Has anyone else got similar behaviour? It is the way I use the Finder? Has anyone reported this? I could not find any similar mentions of this on the discussion forums or in any of the Support section of the Apple site.

OK, I have tried deleting the plists suggested, which actually doesn't fix it. I have also managed to find a process that seems to "break" it on Snow Leopard. The process is as follows:
• Have your Finder windows set up so that the sidebar is not shown.
• With one Finder window active, press commandaltS to open the side bar.
• Command-click on a different computer on the list (in my trial, this was a different Mac also running Snow Leopard with sharing active and me accessing it as a logged-in user with the login details already present in my Keychain) and it opens a new window with that Finder selection with the sidebar active.
• In that new window, press commandaltS to close the sidebar.
• Click on the "original" window to make it active.
• Press commandaltS to close the sidebar.
• Click back on the "new" Finder window and double click on the user folder that you are logged in as.
• Double-click on a folder within this.
Sometimes when I do this, the Finder will appear to crash out and restart (at least all the windows disappear and re-appear), and other times, this "new" window will now not close at all without restarting the Finder.
It seems a bit of a long way around, but since I don't like the sidebar cluttering up the real estate on my desktop, and I want separate windows open to copy things between different Macs in my house, I tend to do this sequence a lot, and hadn't realised this was causing the Finder windows to "stick".
Can anyone else replicate this with Snow Leopard? In other words, is it something specific about the set-up in my house, or is it more generic? I have done this with three Macs in my house, but I am not sure if it is something about my home network or something else about how I have them set up that is causing it.

Finder window preferences won't work

hi,
i don't seem to get working where the new finder window opens. in Finder Preferences, under General i have selected Documents for the new finder window to open but it still opens in Machintosh HD. i've tried Home and Computer but it doesn't work either, it seems to be stuck to open in Machintosh HD. i've restarted the computer but it still doesn't work. can anyone help? thanks.

A_,
Glad to help again.
Use the checklist in The Repair functions of Disk Utility: what's it all about? by Dr. Smoke.
Download and reinstall both the Mac OS X 10.4.6 for PPC, and the Security Update 2006-003 Mac OS X 10.4.6 Client (PPC).
If that is unsuccessful follow the troubleshooting checklist in Resolving Disk, Permission, and Cache Corruption, by Dr. Smoke.
;~)

Finder window on Mac won't scroll horizontally in Muse

I noticed that anytime I open a finder window through Muse (i.e. replace image), the finder window's scroll bar only scrolls so far. I have to resize the window to view other columns. This appears to be a new bug, as it was working normally in the release prior. Anyone else seeing this?

I don't use Muse. It works for me in Illustrator Creative Cloud.
I am attaching my before and after screenshots so you can see how the preview changed.
Not sure what you mean by "which scaling is used".
Before: You can see that the file preview is stuck. I can't scroll horizontally to see any more of the preview.
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A colleague's find window is 'stuck' off the top of the screen! The lower part is visible.
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Googling suggests it's not a common problem! Any ideas?
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Can't Close Finder Window Over Document

I was in a document, using the Help menu, thought I selected a Help topic (may have slipped and hit a different key?), and suddenly a Finder window sheet came out of the document as if I needed to Save As or select something on my hard drive. Problem is, the Cancel button and its partner (whatever it is ... Save?) dropped below my screen, so I can't close the Finder window to get back to my document. Nor can I Quit Pages (without Force Quitting and losing data) or close the document. I am stuck. Is there a way out?

Sorry, I thought from the expressions you used, you were less experienced.
Yes it is really not very Maclike to use the Escape key, we always used (cmd .) but OSX is much closer to the darkside now in an attempt to be more familiar to switchers. I have to consciously use it now as it is needed to get out of the many circumstances now where there is no visible navigation left on the screen.
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Why does long list of files and subfolders scroll to top of finder window when a folder midway or down the list is opened?

I am not sure how long ago this first occured, but when I upgraded to OS 10.8, I was hoping this would correct itself. Now I am not sure if it is a bug or just the way Finder works. When I have a Finder window with many files and folders, and I open a folder > midway through the list while previous files and/or folders have already scroll off the top of the window, the window scrolls up to the beginning of the list and I need to scoll back down to wee what is in the folder.
I thought the finder window stayed steady and the folder openned revealing its contents without the finder window scrolling. The only work around I have found for this is to always double-click a folder open, so it is the new Finder window.
Problem or not?
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Finder window freezing when attempting to find...

I have a fresh install of 10.5.8 client on a PPC-based G5 tower. Having an odd issue where, if I open a new Finder window and do a find (command-f), the window gets "stuck" (doesn't change to the "find"-based window, gets stuck at whatever it was when I hit command-f). The rest of the desktop and computer responds as normal, it's just that single window that gets stuck — it's almost like it the desktop/GUI won't update the drawing of just that window. I can open new Finder windows and do everything else — but the only way to get rid of the stuck window is to kill Finder and let is restart.
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Hi Kristin, not seen this single Finder window problem before.
You've already covered most things with what you've done.
One way to test is to Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, Test for problem in Safe Mode...
Reboot, test again.

Folders Won't Stay On The Sidebar In Finder Windows

Before I went out of town 2 weeks ago, I had about 20 folders I dragged over to the finder window sidebar and they always stuck.
I get home and they are gone. So I drag them all back over and go out of town this week and shut down the mac. On boot up, I see all the folders that I dragged over to the finder window sidebar are gone yet again? What the heck is going on? Why is it doing that? The only ones there are the basic ones that automatically show up. Can anyone help? Mountain Lion 10.8.5
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Finder window preferences are completely broken.

Snow Leopard has been out for quite a while now, however some absolutely glaring bugs with the Finder window preferences still exist.
No matter what you do to set preferences for, no matter what you do with the window controls, no matter what mode you view them in... they are never remembered.
This worked fine in 10.5 and previous... where you could select options like "this folder only" or "copy to existing folders" or "make default view". NONE of this works and saves what you do.
This is very uncharacteristic of Apple and their quality control. It's easy to see as a long-time Mac user that they are slipping in these areas quite a bit.
Apple, is there a fix coming for this?

Oh I do wish you were correct. It almost "just works" but not entirely!
The OSX Finder has never really had the base customisability of the OS9 finder. Ii miss being able to open folders in list view and see the following columns nicely sized to fit, in sequence and resortable to my my preference of the moment. My preferred sequence is label, size, name (flowed to 2 or 3 lines, date modified, comments (likewise flowed to at least 2 lines). Of these being able to move the label and sort to the first columns and have them stuck there and at sized to fit minimum column space would expedite most finder tasks.
The other feature that wasn't in OS9 that I wish for is the ability to instantly assign finder labels inside Finder Save-as dialogues-boxes, I often wonder, "What sort of lazy gimps at Apple left this out?" It is unreal that the forgoing omissions remained omitted for more than a decade of development of OSX. The finder lable alone would save me thousands of mouse clicks per month. I've heard it suggested that Spotlight negates these needs, but frankly it is fairly hopeless as a tool, as once you have used it to find the 3800 files that meet the spotlight searchable criteria, it is well nigh impossible to drill down further , or resort the discovered files, -- and more often than not Spotlight seems to miss the file your looking for even if you enter the correct filename in full, e.g., "Applejuice.jpg" located at the root level of the user/Pictures/ folder. In theory it should turn up all of in the following: basic finder search function; sidebar smart folders and spotlight but… !!*#!. And yes I do know all about the Spotlight preferences (both explicit and hidden). I usually end up relying instead on having a folder structure that is logical and doing a manual "eyeball" search for the required file and duplicates. which is frankly a hassle over the many drives I have in use. The failure of the Finder search functions is worrying as it throws doubts upon the reliability of Time Machine.

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I've seen this a few times when Finder was assigned to "all desktops". If this is the case, right click (cntl click) the dock icon > options > assign to none.
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I can not get my finder windows to refresh their contents. My picture folder is the one that really bothers me. When I am trying to upload pictures to the internet, the picture folder is never accurate. I have tried the refresh finder apple script, restarting the computer, opening and closing the window, nothing seems to work.
The content is there, when I search for a specific picture file it is there, but it is not located in the right subfolder. I download and manage my pictures on kodak easyshare.

Hi there,
The content is there, when I search for a specific picture file it is there, but it is not located in the right subfolder.
Hmmm, are you saying something is moving them? Or the Finder isn't opening them to the right folder?
Have you tried this one...
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/10958253
Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), & use Disk Utility from there to Repair Permissions, reboot once more.
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