Hi Chris, Open up finder preferences and in the toolbar, select the side bar button. Now, check your user name to be shown in the sidebar.
hth Ricardo Walker [email protected] Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Apr 23, 2013, at 1:56 AM, Chris Gilland <[email protected]> wrote: > I am having a very strange problem with the Finder which I hope you all can > help me resolve: > > As some of you know, I had to format my Mountain Lion partition last night > due to system instability. This process required me to erase the entire > partition before reinstalling the OS. Subsequently, upon opening my home > directory with command+shift+h in the Finder, it takes me to the /Macintosh > HD/Users directory instead of my own home directory which is called > Christopher. This is while using column view. I do not experience this > behavior when using icon or list view. For this reason, I have to press > right arrow on my user name's folder to get into my home directory. This > problem doesn't occur on my Mac Mini, nor on my Snow Leopard volume located > on my Macbook. It only happens in OSX 10.8.3 on the volume I reinstalled > last night from scratch. > > The process that I took to reinstall 10.8.3 is as follows: > > • Boot into the correctly working Snow Leopard partition on the Macbook. > • Use Disk Utility to erase the volume which is also located as a > separet partition on the same internal disk as Snlow Leopard which had the > corrupted copy of Mountain Lion. > • Access the Mac App Store and download Mountain Lion from my purchase > history > • Quit the installer once it opened by pressing command+Q. > • Copy the install Mountain Lion app file to another volume which I > share over my local network for archiving purpose > • Reopen the installer while still in Snowleopard. > • During the installation process, click show all disks, and selected > the other partition seperet from the one used for Snow Leopard which I > earlier erased. > • Reboot into Mountain Lion. > • On my Mac mini, export all Voiceover preferences to a USB flash drive > from the file menu in Voiceover Utility > • Open Voiceover Utility on the Macbook from within the newly installed > Mountain Lion system, and reimport the preferences from the file menu which I > saved to the USB plash drive. (Note: this is totally different from setting > up portable preferences.) > • This is when I noticed that my pronunciation entries which come > preinstalled got wiped. > • Configured all my system preferences to my liking > • Set the dock to auto-hide > • Set the desktop to show internal disks, CD/DVD's/IPods, and internal > servers. > • Set Finder to show all File extensions > • Set the login process to automatically log me in with no login screen. > • Made sure that ITunes helper was the only thing in my login items. > • Finally, ran migration assistant, and told it only to restore my > applications and settings. I did not have it migrate my user directory or > account. Neither did I have it migrate any other files on the system. > Mainly this was done to save very much needed disk space. > > After doing all the above, the problem with the Finder started occuring > within my home directory. MOre specifically, now when I open my so called > home directory with command+shift+h, I see Christopher, guest, and Shared. > As said earlier, I have to first highlight Christopher, then right arrow > within column view to actually move down inside my home directory. On my > mini, as well as on my Snow Leopard partition, this isn't necessary. As soon > as I press command+shift+H, I am immediately taken not only to my home > directory, but am placed inside the folder. This has been the same with > every other Mac computer I ever have used dating all the way back to Tiger > 10.4. Upon further observation, it appears that this problem only occurs if > you install Mountain Lion from a clean/fresh installation, but do not upgrade > a current volume from an already existing OS. I'm incredibly intrigued by > this issue, and wonder firstly if anyone else has experienced this after a > clean fresh install, or there before. I further wonder if anyone knows how > on earth to fix this. Deleting ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist > then rebooting did absolutely no good. Yes, the plist file got correctly > rebuilt, don't worry, I know what I'm doing, and plus, that was actually > suggested to me to try by a senior advisor, so it's not like I tried that on > my own. I'm not that stupid. > > I can't think of anything more to try doing to fix this problem. Even > reinstalling the OS from scratch isn't helping. The only thing that I know > left to maybe try is install Snow Leopard fresh to that volume, then from > there, do an upgrade from the app store on that particular volume. This way, > the 10.8.3 installation isn't done totally from scratch. Still though, that > seems a bit extreme, especially considerring that neither icon nor list view > have this problem. Why don't I use list view then you ask? Cause I don't > like it, so there. LOL! > > Any thoughts? > > Chris. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
