Folder will not open

Please help. Whenever I try to open a personal folder on my desktop, the whole screen blinks and nothing happens. Similarly, when I try to use Finder, and click on the folder, Finder quits and the whole screen blinks. Any thoughts appreciated.

Sounds like your Finder preferences file is corrupt. Move the com.apple.finder.plist file out of /Users/username/Library/Preferences to the Desktop, OPTION-click the Dock's Finder icon, selecting Relaunch, and see if that fixes things. Note that you'll have to reset Finder's preferences if this fixes the problem.

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