[X4U] Finder locks up-help

[Wayne Clodfelter]

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.