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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
