Don't get me wrong, I had loads of respect for you before, and I do mean
loads! so, don't even for one minute think I didn't, but you just won a
badge in smartness! Holy cow! You are a genious! I'll be! d***ed! That
worked like a charm! I wonder why in the first place on fresh installs,
that is unchecked, yet is! apparently checked on brand new ML systems that
comes preloaded with ml, or with those when you upgrade. I just wish I'd
known about this before earlier tonight when I reformatted again to SL, then
updated to ML. I really feel stupid at this point! LOL!
Go check our company's blog here in about 10 minutes of me writing this
e-mail which is 7:19AM Eastern time.
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Then click the link for our blog. We're going to be putting this tip on our
blog, and giving credit to you and plugging your web site/podcast. thanks
for your post/contribution!
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ricardo Walker" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 5:24 AM
Subject: Re: Strange problem with the Finder
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.
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