OS 10.8.5 finder doesn't open showing Mac HD

When I open a finder window it opens a couple of columns over from the one showing Mac HD. I can't get it to open to that column automatically. Thanks for your help

What do you have in Finder Preferences, General, "New Finder windows show" ?

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I cannot open PDF files on my mac. As per other forums, I have tired deleteing and un-installing all adobe reader, then tried re-downlading it. I still can't get the PDF's to open. I have read through the 'terms' and agree, but it still doesn't open PDFs. When i click to a link I just get a blank page. I'm rather frustrated, I called mac support, they did there best to help me but they couldn't. I can't not find a contact number for adobe, as i have tried following all of the advice given on the forums to no avail. What do i do now? I really would like to be able to open PDF files with Adobe Reader.
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You know... you really DON'T need Adobe Reader on a Mac. Preview (part of the OS) is a much better viewer for PDFs. You say you uninstalled. I can only assume by that, you simply dragged the Reader folder to the trash and emptied it. Unfortunately that doesn't remove Preferences or .plist files from your system folder. In order to COMPLETELY remove an app you need to use a "cleaner" like AppZapper that will also remove ALL associated (and hidden) files for the app. Otherwise you install the new app with the same old broken preferences.
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So i was sorting through my gazillion of photos last night and decided to also delete some photo editing programs i do not use at the moment to have some more space on my 3 year old macbook for the time being, and using CleanMyMac app, i removed aperture 3 and lightroom2 and lightroom 3Beta. I dont know what happened but my preview app doesnt want to work anymore and quickview doesnt show previews as it did, ie only thumbnails of JPGs. I restarted the system only to find out that now even the folders images dont show, only the names underneath. And i cannot open them either. I tried opening iPhoto, but it said that it aborted as the image could not be found. Using Bridge i amanged to get into the folders and everything is still there safe and sound. Only my Apps are not there, image wise, but kinda are. And funny enough it affected skype - no text is showing in the msg window.
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Hi,
Thank you for the informative process to help. I just tried all of the above. My HD doesnt give error messages anymore and has been fixed, however the issue still persists.
When running permission repair i got a lot of messages. sorry for the long message but here is what it said. I am sharing because it means close to nothing to me.
Repairing permissions for “Macintosh HD”
Reading permissions database.
Reading the permissions database can take several minutes.
Permissions differ on "Library/Application Support/ProApps/Internal Plug-Ins/BrowserKit/iLife.bkplugin/Contents/CodeResources", should be -rw-rw-r-- , they are lrw-rw-r-- .
Permissions differ on "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/BrowserKit.framework/Versions/A/CodeResources ", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrw-r--r-- .
Permissions differ on "System/Library/CoreServices/Front Row.app/Contents/CodeResources", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrw-r--r-- .
Permissions differ on "System/Library/CoreServices/Front Row.app/Contents/PlugIns/DVD.frappliance/Contents/CodeResources", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrw-r--r-- .
Permissions differ on "System/Library/CoreServices/Front Row.app/Contents/PlugIns/FRSettings.frappliance/Contents/CodeResources", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrw-r--r-- .
Permissions differ on "System/Library/CoreServices/Front Row.app/Contents/PlugIns/FRSources.frappliance/Contents/CodeResources", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrw-r--r-- .
Permissions differ on "System/Library/CoreServices/Front Row.app/Contents/PlugIns/Movies.frappliance/Contents/CodeResources", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrw-r--r-- .
Permissions differ on "System/Library/CoreServices/Front Row.app/Contents/PlugIns/Music.frappliance/Contents/CodeResources", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrw-r--r-- .
Permissions differ on "System/Library/CoreServices/Front Row.app/Contents/PlugIns/Photos.frappliance/Contents/CodeResources", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrw-r--r-- .
Permissions differ on "System/Library/CoreServices/Front Row.app/Contents/PlugIns/Podcasts.frappliance/Contents/CodeResources", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrw-r--r-- .
Permissions differ on "System/Library/CoreServices/Front Row.app/Contents/PlugIns/TV.frappliance/Contents/CodeResources", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrw-r--r-- .
Permissions differ on "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/BackRow.framework/Versions/A/CodeResources", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrw-r--r-- .
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ACL found but not expected on "usr/share/man/man3/MoveToplev.3tcl.gz".
ACL found but not expected on "usr/share/man/man3/Tk_ChangeWindowAttributes.3tcl.gz".
ACL found but not expected on "usr/share/man/man3/Tk_ConfigureWindow.3tcl.gz".
ACL found but not expected on "usr/share/man/man3/Tk_DefineCursor.3tcl.gz".
ACL found but not expected on "usr/share/man/man3/Tk_MoveResizeWindow.3tcl.gz".
ACL found but not expected on "usr/share/man/man3/Tk_MoveToplevelWindow.3tcl.gz".
ACL found but not expected on "usr/share/man/man3/Tk_MoveWindow.3tcl.gz".
ACL found but not expected on "usr/share/man/man3/Tk_ResizeWindow.3tcl.gz".
ACL found but not expected on "usr/share/man/man3/Tk_SetWindowBackground.3tcl.gz".
ACL found but not expected on "usr/share/man/man3/Tk_SetWindowBackgroundPixmap.3tcl.gz".
ACL found but not expected on "usr/share/man/man3/Tk_SetWindowBorder.3tcl.gz".
ACL found but not expected on "usr/share/man/man3/Tk_SetWindowBorderPixmap.3tcl.gz".
ACL found but not expected on "usr/share/man/man3/Tk_SetWindowBorderWidth.3tcl.gz".
ACL found but not expected on "usr/share/man/man3/Tk_SetWindowColormap.3tcl.gz".
ACL found but not expected on "usr/share/man/man3/Tk_UndefineCursor.3tcl.gz".
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Warning: SUID file "Applications/System Preferences.app/Contents/Resources/installAssistant" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access.app/Contents/Resources/kcproxy" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DiskManagement.framework/Versions/A/Resources /DiskManagementTool" has been modified and will not be repaired.
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Finder doesn't open!

Hello!
The problem I'm experiencing began immediately after I successfully (?) installed the Mac OS X Leopard DVD. After the necessary restart I noticed that the menu bar was blinking and when I'd try to open the finder the white dot would appear under the finder's icon only to disappear instantaneously. I tried rebooting but the problem persisted. When I launch another application the menu bar appears normal (that is, it's not blinking) and the app works flawlessly.
I thought I could circumvent the issue by updating to 10.5.4 through software update but when I pressed the 'install ... items' button all I got was the rotating beach ball.
I get the impression that the installation wasn't complete because when I opened system preferences to change the wallpaper, I couldn't find any reference to 'spaces' whatsoever. Moreover, the general appearance of system preferences is somewhat incomplete.
As you may have deduced, I'm not exactly a computer wizard! So, I'd greatly appreciate it if you could use layman terms in your comments.
Thanx in advance!

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I'm not sure what I've done, but for some reason I cannot access my hard drive or my finder (among other things). Spotlight will locate items but I can't open those items from spotlight. I recently installed CleanApp and deleted a number of files that seemed appropriate. I ran Disk Utility to repair disk permissions and mostly it said that there were various permissions that were wrong and it would not repair them. I am running Leopard 10.5.1. Also, I cannot access my external hard drive on my desktop though I can see that it is attached when I search a location through an application>open program. HELP!

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Finder doesn't open folder set in preferences

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But as of maybe 6 or so weeks ago, on both my iMac 24 and MacBook Pro 15 (both running 10.5.8) Finder always opens only at Macintosh HD root - no matter what I set in Preferences.
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Works here. Create a new admin user account, log into it, and see if the problem persists. Since the issue's across two machines, I suspect some 3rd-party conflict or corruption.

Finder doesn't like showing one of my external hard disks

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I recently bought an iomega 500gb MiniMax drive for use with my MacBook, it was working fine and showing in finder for a day or so and then stopped automatically showing up in finder unless I tweak about with it through the following method (HD is called FatBoy):
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tell application "Finder" to quit
delay 1
tell application "Finder" to launch
Even then it won't stay there permanently... I am also wondering if the @ symbol below is important as it doesn't show up for other correctly behaving external hard disks...?
ls -l /Volumes/
total 12
drwxr-xr-x@ 13 ndrew staff 510 3 Jan 15:46 FatBoy
Also if this doesn't work I have to remount the disk inside Disk Utility - but this only works after the above steps.
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Identifier:      com.adobe.ElementsOrganizer12
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Report Version: 6
Interval Since Last Report:          5907116 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           9
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   6
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Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
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Crashed Thread: 0
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