Problem to open folders

I have a Mac OS X intel (10.6.8) and always ran on the desktop a folder with several subfolders. Suddenly this folder, although that appear on the desktop, I can not open it, what could have happened and what I can do to recover the files in those folders?. Thank you
Luis H.

I probably accidentally send the folder to the trash and been cleared. While some files are recovered with FileSalvage, non were all there. I think even that could be another problem and that the contents of the folder is still in my computer. On the desktop appears, but I can not open the folder which does not accept the mouse pointer.

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Problem with opening folders

Hi all,
The problem ocurred several days ago, I can't trace what might have caused it.
When using Spotlight or Dock folders, I cannot open any folder. Instead, Preview is being launched and a graphic file inside the folder is being opened. This happens every time, with no exceptions. In nested folders, clicking on the "Open in Finder" arrow (when opening folders via Dock) brings the same result.
I have made a short screencast showing the problem, it can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qirzp8WmnjM
Please help, it's very annoying
Regards,
Adam

It didn't help.
However, I have solved the problem using this little program: RCDefaultApp - it turned out that Finder file type "fold" somewhat become unmarked. After marking it the problem is gone

Nokia asha 200.problem in opening folders.

I am using nokia asha 200.It is very slow and it takes long time in opening folder.And my nokia music store is also not opening.
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If there is a lot of content in a folder, it is normal for the phone to take some time in opening that. Try making multiple sub-folders to properly allocate your data.
Do you have some phone memory free? When you run out of phone memory or its very less free memory left, the device starts running slow as because it uses come of the phone memory to as physical memory.
What error do you experience when opening Nokia Music? Does it suddenly close? If so, your phone needs a Firmware Re-Install. You can give Nokia Suite a chance to do that or better visit a Nokia Care Center.
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What backups do you have?

Can't Open Folders

Using Leopard 10.5.2
When I try to open a folder, any folder, including the hard drive, the ipod, folders on the desktop, etc. this happens:
1st -- a window opens. In some cases I see the contents of the folder in it, but usually it looks completely empty.
2nd -- after about 1 second the window disappears and everything on the desktop including the hard drive image also disappears.
3rd -- after about 1 second everything on the desktop reappears, complete with the hard drive and other folders. They are all closed.
Spotlight can find folders within folders, and files within folders. Applications can be opened from spotlight or the dock, but not from any folder, such as the applications folder. Some folders can be opened from Recent on the apple menu, but others can't.
I spent a couple hours on the phone to Apple yesterday and they first had me create an account for a phantom user. Logged off as myself, and logged on as the phantom user, and did not have this problem with that account. New problem being: can't access any of my files, because they're all associated with the original user account.
Next we did some complicated stuff to get access to my desktop folder from a new super-administrator account and moved my desktop into the "shared" folder. Went back to my account, and now everything that was on my desktop has disappeared and I still can't open any folders, so I can't get anything that was on the desktop for that account back.
Next we reinstalled the system software using the install and archive option.
This was also a giant step backwards, because it installed 10.5.1 and reset preferences etc back to the defaults but it did not affect the folder bug. So then I ran software update and installed 10.5.2 and now I'm up to about 10 hours of trying to make things work and have only succeeded in making things worse.

Hi I exactly have the same problem . I remarked it noon on my G5, Leopard 10.5.2.
I have 2 Internal Hard Drive.
On the primary one, i have the same symptoms : i could not open folders. Everything stops and restarts. Sometimes it even happens after several clicks in teh lateral bar of the Finder
On the Second internal Hard Drive everything is OK
I thought about rights.. i launched some maintenance & cleanup scripts using ONYX, then reboot... it 's the same.
It's so strange : i reinstalled Leopard from scratch two weeks ago >
I launched backups with Time Machine + Capsule
Recently i installed iLife.
It seems, that after install of Leopard everything was ok.
Recently, one of my update (iDVD) failed. And Safari.
This problems come from my RAM i think :
When i reinstalled Leopard, i should unplug all my upgraded non-Apple RAM.

Adobe CS5 programs have trouble opening folders on external hard drives under 10.10.2

Just upgraded 2 mac's to 10.10.2. One is a late 2013 Mac Pro, the other is a lot-of-the line, BTO iMac 5K. (Processors and Ram are not an issue)
Both InDesign and Illustrator (CS5) are having difficulty opening folders on external hard drives. Mac Pro is connected to a 5GB LaCie d2 via thunderbolt cable, while the 5K is connected to a 2TB WD my book studio for Mac via FW800 with an apple branded Thunderbolt adapter. Both are formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Using the File>open command then drilling down to the selected folder on the Hard Disk drive, the finder sits blank with the spinning beach ball going.
Other local folders open up quickly and populate file lists with no problems.
Some folders on the external drive can be accessed through the File>open finder dialogue however they are folders that contain fewer sub-folders and files.
Update while typing this...
Both Folders that were giving us problems contained a shortcut. Hiding that shortcut inside anouther local folder seems to have cleared up the trick. This is a short term work around and I am wondering if Apple is aware of this issue or if others have found the same problem as I have and if this work around fixes their issues?

How long have you been running 10.9?
In my case the external drives go to sleep and have to wake up. Not much to do with Mavericks, just hardware sleeping to save energy. Note that 10.9 is much more energy aware and may put things to sleep more often. That may be a fair trade off
G

How to solve the problem when opening program illustrator cs6 ERROR: 16 It is WINDOWS 8.1 / 64 BIT help please

how to solve the problem when opening program illustrator cs6
ERROR: 16
It is WINDOWS 8.1 / 64 BIT
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02/14/14 07:20:26:474 | [INFO] | | OOBE | DE | | | | 8860 | DEVersion: 5.0.0.0
02/14/14 07:20:26:475 | [INFO] | | OOBE | DE | | | | 8860 | Loading library from C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\OOBE\PDApp\DECore\DE5\Setup.dll
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CHECK : Credentials
Load Deployment File
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Create Required Folders
Assuming uninstall mode
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[    8860] Fri Feb 14 07:20:26 2014 ERROR
DW040: The product "{893B3B44-0A1E-404B-8FE8-0A74509102A9}" is not installed. Cannot proceed with the uninstall
[    8860] Fri Feb 14 07:20:26 2014 INFO
:: END TIMER :: [Total Timer] took 6.90443 milliseconds (0.00690443 seconds) DTR = 579.338 KBPS (0.56576 MBPS)
-------------------------------------- Summary --------------------------------------
- 0 fatal error(s), 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)
ERROR: DW040: The product "{893B3B44-0A1E-404B-8FE8-0A74509102A9}" is not installed. Cannot proceed with the uninstall
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Exit Code: 33 - The product is not installed, cannot uninstall.
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IMac Won't Allow Me To Install Applications Or Even Open Folders

I have an iMac Intel Core Duo 2.33 GHz, with 2GB of Ram running 10.5.4.
When I booted my Mac last week I noticed a brown area on my screen. After the machine booted I could only open the applications that were in my dock or do a search for them through Spotlight and start the application from there, since it took many clicks to get to my Applications directory to open after clicking GO in the menu bar.
Even after the Applications directory opened (which took forever) I was unable to click on ANY of the applications and scrolling was extremely slow or not at all. I also had to Refresh the Finder just to get it to show up at the top of my screen or close the Application window.
I took the machine in for repair and they replaced the screen and told me that not being able to open folders, go to the Application folder or ANY folder was a software issue and not a hardware issue. They recommended I remove EVERYTHING in my Startup Login Options when I got home and that would fix the problem, it did not - I removed all 4 applications in the startup and nothing changed.
I rarely install applications, but I faithfully repair permissions at least daily and I have installed all of the latest updates Apple released in the last 2 weeks.
Thing I have done so far
1. Repaired Permissions
2. Verified The Disk
3. Reinstalled Leopard And All The Updates
4. Run Most of the options built into Onyx, Maintenance and Mac Pilot, since I have them already installed.
Nothing has made a difference, I am still unable to run anything in my applications directory, open ANY folder on my desktop or any other directory, drag an icon to my applications folder or drag a folder or icon on my desktop.
The only things I can do is run what few applications I have in my Dock and search for Applications using Spotlight and run them from there. They come up quickly and run just fine once they come up.
Any help or suggestions someone could provide would be greatly appreciated! Thank you very much for your time!
Randy

Repairing permission daily is a complete waste of time and will not help you. In fact, repairing the disk permissions needs to only be done about 2-3 times a year at best.
You say you verified the disk but did you repair it? Did you get a message that the "disk appears to be o.k."? What kind of install did you do? My guess is you did an archive and install.
Onyx is a troubleshooting tool and should not be used on a regular basis for anything. Caches do not need to be cleaned on a regular basis and everything else Onyx and similar utilities claim to do are handled by the system automatically. Do not use these utilities unless you are having a problem.
My guess is you have a serious problem with file corruption.
Have you tried creating a new account? Try that and see if the problem follows to the new account or not.

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:
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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.
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Stupid Mac OS bug - Won't delete open folders in list view

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Back up all data.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
Services ▹ Reveal
from the contextual menu.* A Finder window should open with a folder named "com.apple.mail" selected. If it does, move the selected folder — not just its contents — to the Desktop. Leave the Finder window open for now.
Log out and log back in. Launch Mail and test. If the problem is resolved, you may have to recreate some of your Mail settings. You can then delete the folder you moved and close the Finder window. If you still have the problem, quit Mail again and put the folder back where it was, overwriting the one that may have been created in its place. Repeat with this line:
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.MailServiceAgent
Caution: If you change any of the contents of the sandbox, but leave the folder itself in place, Mail may crash or not launch at all. Deleting the whole sandbox will cause it to be rebuilt automatically.
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Cannot open folders by double-clicking

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Thanks for the "silly" tip...I changed the "double click speed" from medium to fast and nothing opened without going to "open"....seeing your message i tried moving the double click speed back to middle and the problem was instantly repaired...I just hate that the solutions can be soooo simple...thanks and remember...in computing...no idea is "silly"...LLLL

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