[X4U] Finder locks up-help-

[Robert A. (Bob) Hall]

Thank you Wayne, your suggestion worked in that least it led to  the 
solution. Simply duplicating the Document folder failed. I then 
created a new "temp" folder in my home folder and opened it in one 
finder window. In a second finder window I opened the user my home 
folder. I clicked the triangle on the defective Document folder to 
drop down the files. I selected all the files and dragged and dropped 
all the files into the empty "Temp" folder in the first finder window 
and confirmed the it could be opened in the finder and trashed the 
defective Documents folder. I renamed the "Temp" folder to Documents 
and drug it into the home folder. All then worked perfectly.

A lot of words and actions to get there. It was worth it. I am sure 
there may a shorter route but I was determined to cover all the 
bases. so I would not have to do it several time.

Thanks again,
Bob Hall

PS: Also, thanks to all those that responded.


At 8:59 AM -0400 5/19/07, Wayne Clodfelter wrote:
>Robert A. (Bob) Hall wrote:
>>I have strange condition that I have not seen before. I now cannot 
>>open my Documents folder by clicking on the Document Icon (folder 
>>title "Documents"), while I can get to the files in the folder by 
>>clicking the arrow in front of "Documents" in my home folder. When 
>>I click on the folder title "Documents" I get a spinning wheel and 
>>the finder locks up. Force Quitting restarts the Finder restoring 
>>all operations except opening the Documents folder.
>>
>>All other folders open as expected. No other action I have tried 
>>locks the finder.
>>
>>I have rebuilt using  DiskWarrior, reset parameters, restored disk 
>>permissions, repaired the disk using Disk Utility (after restarting 
>>to my backup hard disk) -- to no avail. As an an experiment I moved 
>>the moved the Documents folder to a backup hard disk and it work 
>>perfectly. Moved the now operational folder back into my main disk 
>>and it still locks the finder.
>>
>>This all started when I tried to drop a file from the my "download" 
>>folder into "Documents" in the side bar. It opened a blank window 
>>and the cursor changed to a spinning wheel.
>>
>>Any comment will be appreciated.
>
>Have you tried duplicating the Documents folder and trying to open 
>that one? If that works, then delete the old one after verifying it 
>holds everything in the original (no. files, size, etc). Be sure you 
>rename the copy to the original name after verifying it is complete 
>and opens properly.
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