Here's the workaround I use. First, turn off VO and then press command q to
close that finder window. Then press command 2 to get into list mode. For
me this problem seems to mostly happen in column view. Now that you're in
list mode, try again. Let me know if this works. Apple has shown very
little interest in solving this problem.
You can also go to the drive on the main finder window. First, find a file,
any file, and copy it to the clipboard. At the main finder window use the
right click menu to call up the paste command. If you can get any file onto
that drive it will then work fine and you canego from there.
Let me know if either of these works.
Bill
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From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Steve Holmes
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 6:25 PM
To: macvisionaries
Subject: Finder Busy Finder Busy with Empty USB Drives!
I think this is similar to Bill's empty DVD problems but I'm actually
wondering what the solution is when I get into these situations. If I plug
in a USB drive which happens to have no files yet, the finder goes into that
damn busy stuff and I can't get out of it any way, any how. I always end up
turning off the computer and power back up. Is there any other way to get
out of those busy loops? Unplugging the drive did not help the situation. As
soon as I copy a file on to that empty partition, then all is fine. What I
do is go into the terminal and use the cp command to do this. I read Bill's
message about deleting finder settings and then it straitens out for a bit
but obviously, that doesn't sound like a good solution as his problem kept
coming back. If I use Command O to open the drive, I also get the dreaded
"finder busy" crap so How does one get out of this loop when you get caught
in it? I could see this happening every time you stick in a blank USB stick
or SD card or something.
I sure hope Apple gets this serious bug fixed soon.
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