Little semi-transparent Finder window icons, tabs

When I move a Finder window, I sometimes accidentally grab the tab (because there's very little visual distinction between the two, poor UI IMHO). When I release the mouse, it leaves a semi-transparent icon version of the Finder window. You can literally have your desktop littered with these and I'm wondering why Apple has let this bug go for so long?
How do you get rid of them?

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Ever since I've upgraded to Mountain Lion, my icons in any finder window have disappeared.
Any ideas?

Solution for me found here:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/19048722?ac_cid=tw123456#19048722

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In the main part of my finder window when I am in column view, the icons for each individual file are not showing. The file name is there as is the extension (if I go into preferences and enable it). I am concerned as-although in itself it is merely an aesthetic thing-I fear it could be the symptom of something more serious. Thus far I have repaired disk permissions but that is about the extent of repair jobs that I can do.
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This could possibly be related to changing the "view options" - mine seem to have corrected itself when I right clicked > show view options and then changed some minor settings - think I changed it to last view and then clicked "Use as defaults" - seemed to work. But this wasn't due to changing it to list view as the icons were also missing as soon as I changed to the different view - just seemed to work when I clicked "Use as defaults" and then they appeared when I open and closed the finder. Hope it works anyway.

Desktop and finder window icons missing

Some of the icons on the top of my desktop suddenly went blank. they are there since I can click where they were and still use them. The same has happened to the top of the finder window as well. Here are some screen shots. Any one have an idea how to fix this? I ran MainMenu Pro disk permissions repair, cleaned the cache, did all maintenance and restarted with the no result.

Do a backup.
Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library. Then go to Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist and com.apple.finder.plist. Move the .plists to your desktop.
Re-launch Finder by restarting and test. If it works okay, delete the plists from the desktop.
If the same, return the .plists to where you got it from, overwriting the newer one.
Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.

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Is there anyway to increase the icon & font sizes that are located in the left column? I could not find any settings that will allow me to do so. I have already increased the icon & font sizes in the main Finder window which had no effect on the sizes in the left column.
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Resolution - 1280x800

If you're referring to the sidebar then the answer is, "No."

Finder window dragging tab to desktop

I am curious if anyone else is having this problem.
Maybe my brand new Mac Pro has a graphics issue.
When I drag a tab to create a separate window it creates a miniature version of the window and when I release the window upsizes.
However, it leaves a small version of itself behind.
See the image below for what I am talking about. The two small versions of tabs I dragged persist and will not be deleted until I "killall Finder" or restart the finder. I have tried deleting the workspace and they just move to a different workspace.
My setup:
Anyone have any ideas?
Is this a hardware or software issue?
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Ok I am still having this issue even after the Geniuses reset my computer including the firmware. (that was for repeated gpurestarts which have stopped for now).
All software is up to date. Killing the finder will remove the offending ghost image. Restarting the computer removes it but I can always create another one just by moving a tab to the desktop.
Third party software disabled and still I see this until I kill the Finder.
When I move the tab to the desktop it expands fine but leaves the ghost and I get this message in the Console:
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Finder Window Icon View Spacing Problem

I just restarted my system. Now every window has my icons horizontally spaced much further appart than before. The vertical distance has remained normal. I used "keep arranged by name" and the spacing was always the width of 3 characters. Now the width is at least 40 characters. Deselecting the "keep arranged by" allows me to move the icons closer but that is not a good solution. Is there a setting for the spacing? Making the icon size smaller doesn't change the spacing. Making the Text smaller reduces the spacing a bit but not even close to the "original" distance.

I think the only way now would be to uncheck the "Keep arranged by" option and then to drag them as close as you want. However, if you know how to use the Terminal, you can probably change the automatic spacing that way.

How do I change colour of Mountain Lion Finder window icons?

The icons are all grey and actually make it harder to locate things. I know there is Side Effects to change this but it's Beta and I don't know if this trustworthy. Anyone know of a safe way to do this?

Hello Bronson,
As the icons are part of the system, any application or plug-in that alters system files is considered invasive. While i do not have a solution or recommendation on how to get this done i do suggest backing up your data before attempting any UI changes. Better safe than sorry

Can I save the configuration of a tabbed finder window?

So I've spent five minutes organising a finder window with tabs giving me access to all my most useful folders and am thinking that I really like this new tabbed finder business. I then close the finder window and when I then open a new finder window, it has reverted back to a single tab and I have lost my nice tabbed arrangement.
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Oke. Checked the user credentials again and now i got a configuration backup.
So no problem!
Cheers,
Erwin

Clicking in the "Finder" window will not work

Hello everyone! I'm hoping you guys will be able to help me so I won't have to make ANOTHER trip to the Genius Bar.
Recently I had my trackpad replaced at the Apple Store because I found that it was not registering when I was clicking (however, it would allow me to "tap" on it). I just got my computer back today and I'm happy to say that my trackpad is clicking perfectly...for the most part. It's registering when I click in all the programs, Firefox, Word, etc. HOWEVER, whenever I click on the "Finder" window icon on the bottom of my screen, my clicks aren't working. I can click outside of the box and to other "devices" or "places" in the window, but when I'm trying to click on "documents", "music", "pictures" etc within the "finder" window, it doesn't let me click (even when I change it to "tap" clicking, it won't even open the folders). Does anyone know why this is happening? I'm hoping it's an easy fix so I won't have to go all the way to the Apple Store, however, I'm a teacher and I often use "MY DOCUMENTS" frequently, so me not being able to click on it is quite aggrivating.
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Finder icon mysteriously becomes semi-transparent...

Hello...
This is my very first post in Apple official community
Today when I boot up my MBP, the Finder icon on the dock changes to a very strange look. The icon becomes semi-transparent with degraded quality. Below is link to my screenshot.
http://forums.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=268250&stc=1&d=129562169 4
I didn't do anything special last time I ran the machine. And I've tried to fix it by running all the normal disk permission repair routines and system maintenance scripts, but to no avail.
It is very clear that such icon is an indication that something has gone wrong, but unfortunately the system doesn't tell you what it is (maybe only a handful of OS X developers know what this icon means).
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Removing Shortcut Icons from Finder Window

In the left side of the Finder Window, there are little shortcut icons like "Music" and "Applications" and the like. I dragged a folder into this window for easy access. I no longer have the folder on my Mac, but the shortcut icon is still there.
How do I make it go away? Every time I right- or left-click on it, I simply get a message saying the folder is no longer available.

Select the item and drag it out of the sidebar. It will "poof" away.

I can't find the Firefox tab that takes me to edit and print et al. unless I have a little bitty screen.

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You should still be able to see the top bar of the window with the orange Firefox button. If you can't see any of it, one of your Firefox settings files might be corrupted.
(2) Full screen (F11 key or orange Firefox button > Full Screen)
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Blurry/pixelated icons at random in Finder windows 02 (Not Solving Yet)

Since the problem in the old topic (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2132399&start=0&tstart=0), I have started new one.
the Problem is:
"I'm seeing a lot of blurry icons in the Finder, though, seemingly at random. I'll open a window and about half the icons will be essentially large versions of the 16x16 icon, rather than sharp icons at the appropriate size. Changing the icon size via the new slider just enlarges the blurry icon, it doesn't increase the resolution." (Eric Westby)
This is really the most disappointing non response issue I have ever seen by Apple. I hope from Apple to address this issue.
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Problem. I am experiencing problems with suddenly blurred custom Finder icons as well.
Trigger. So far as I can tell, this happened when Software Update ran on my computer this afternoon. If I recall correctly, it updated to the latest XCode and iTunes versions pushed out this week. When it was finished, it gave me the message, "Blah blah blah your installation has finished" with an Okay button. The Finder window with my film library was open and in full view with nice, not-blurry icons. I clicked Okay to dismiss Software Update and the instant I did that it quit the Finder, must have been to rebuild something that was edited during the installation. All the open windows went away, the Finder restarted and its windows reopened. Wouldn't you know it, every single icon I had edited in the last day or three, +but none of the others+, was a pixellated blob.
Details. This is a single folder with rips of my DVD collection made using Handbrake, one folder per film, for a total of about 400 folders.
For each folder, I locate an image of the theater poster using Google's image search and create an icon using that image. The process I use is to open the image in Preview, ensure it is 800 px tall or less, then Select All > Copy to the Clipboard. Then I go to the Finder and do a Get Info > Tab > Paste for the folder.
Screenshot
My screenshot shows the sort of blurry pixellation I am getting, as seen on the icon for "Grand Central Murder (1942)" and "Graduate, The (1967) Nichols". All the rest look sharp and nice, they way they usually all do.
Guesses. The only thing I can think of is that as you paste custom icons, the Finder is just dropping that information in a cache somewhere. It will write it out properly if it gets the time, but if the system is always telling it "not now, I'm busy" it will put it off as a low priority task. If something else then tells the Finder to restart, all those changes are lost because the cache gets hosed down when the Finder reboots. It's only a guess, but it's the best I've got.

Quick Look icon doesn't appear in Finder window?

I've just installed Leopard, and have just read in the manual about Quick Look. Quick Look shows up in the drop-down File menu if I highlight a file or document, but it doesn't show up where it's supposed to in the Finder window, as an eyeball icon. I'm sure there's some obvious fix: can anyone explain what I have to do to get the icon to show up in Finder?
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the easiest way to quicklook a file is select the file and hit the space bar. but if you want to call it from the toolbar the icon should be tere too. if it isn't, go to view menu->customize toolbar and drag the "eye" icon to the toolbar.

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