Re: Finder acting strangely.

2013-03-30 Thread Jessica Moss
Ok, I finally got it working after I started having 1 issue after another with it, then it for some reason kept repeatedly saying "authentication," over and over, and wouldn't stop talking, but wouldn't let me type anything, and I couldn't access anything else. So then I had to call Apple, get

Re: Finder acting strangely.

2013-03-29 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Not sure why it's acting this way but as Daniel mentioned, when on the Desktop, you can press cmd-comma to bring up Finder Prefs, then check the items such as Hard Disks and External Disks that you wish shown on your Desktop. This was the default behaviour long ago prior to the Sidebar bei

Re: Finder acting strangely.

2013-03-28 Thread Jessica Moss
but booting into safe mode by itself fixes many > system glyches. Or, you could try fixing disk permissions from the recovery > partition. > > - Original Message - From: "Jessica Moss" > To: > Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 10:15 PM > Subject: Re: Finder a

Re: Finder acting strangely.

2013-03-28 Thread Phil Halton
quot; To: Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 10:15 PM Subject: Re: Finder acting strangely. And what's strange, is that when I close out of a new window in finder then try to launch the computer icon again, it relaunches whatever finder window I had open before I closed it to go back to the

Re: Finder acting strangely.

2013-03-27 Thread Jessica Moss
And what's strange, is that when I close out of a new window in finder then try to launch the computer icon again, it relaunches whatever finder window I had open before I closed it to go back to the desktop, which it's never done before On Mar 27, 2013, at 10:12 PM, Phil Halton wrote: > when al

Re: Finder acting strangely.

2013-03-27 Thread Jessica Moss
I've done that too; I shut it down last night, thinking it would fix itself this morning, then after turning it back on this morning, I went back to it this evening, and it's still doing the same thing. On Mar 27, 2013, at 10:12 PM, Phil Halton wrote: > when all else fails, reboot! > > - Or

Re: Finder acting strangely.

2013-03-27 Thread Phil Halton
when all else fails, reboot! - Original Message - From: "Jessica Moss" To: Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 8:37 PM Subject: Finder acting strangely. I've just noticed last night, that for some reason when I do the "command+shift+c," command to bring up the computer ikon, it doesn't

Re: Finder acting strangely.

2013-03-27 Thread Jessica Moss
I'm on the desktop when I've repeatedly tried that command, and for some reason, it continuously does this, so have no idea what to make of this. On Mar 27, 2013, at 8:43 PM, Daniel C wrote: > Make sure you're on your finder desktop, then try that command. Also, if you > go into preferences for

Re: Finder acting strangely.

2013-03-27 Thread Daniel C
Make sure you're on your finder desktop, then try that command. Also, if you go into preferences for Finder, you should be able to check off the boxes related to showing drives on your desktop. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group.