haha, My pleasure.
Ricardo Walker [email protected] Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Apr 23, 2013, at 7:21 AM, Chris Gilland <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > http://www.clgproductions.com > > 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. >> >> -- >> 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. > > > -- > 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. 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