[X4U] Finder locks up-help-

[Eugene]

On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 03:06:51PM CDT, Robert A. (Bob) Hall <rahall at ptd.net> wrote:
:  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.
: >
: > 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.
:
:  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.

Maybe it was a corrupted hidden file, e.g. ".DS_Store" or ".localized".


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Eugene
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