Finder Going Crazy

[expos4ever]

Finder is acting strangely. In the panel where I normally see the files, I see a hodgepodge of strange things, for example my desktop photo and multiple images of the "dock" (all the icons at the bottom). Or to generalize, this panel acts like a literal window in the sense what you see in it is what is "behind" the panel. This is not 100% correct - there are distortions and other strange visual effects. In effect, the panel appears to be acting as a "camera" that captures and sometimes distorts what was on the display before Finder is invoked.

What is going on? I am not a techie.

And restarting does not fix the problem.

 

[grahamperrin]

Shift-Command-3 to take a screenshot then (if there's nothing sensitive or confidential in the shot) please add it to this topic.

 

[T'hain Esh Kelch]

You are running a MBP I assume? They are prone to graphical errors.

 

[Ichkamo]

Shift-Command-3 to take a screenshot then (if there's nothing sensitive or confidential in the shot) please add it to this topic.

Wasn't it the following?

SHIFT+COMMAND+4 chosen area shot
SHIFT+COMMAND+5 fullscreen shot

 

[expos4ever]

Shift-Command-3 to take a screenshot then (if there's nothing sensitive or confidential in the shot) please add it to this topic.

See attached. As you can see, part of the Finder panel displays a chunk of my Chrome window in which I was browsing this very forum.
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You are running a MBP I assume? They are prone to graphical errors.

Yes.

 

[Sully]

Mine is doing this too. Do the rest of your apps work if you open them outside finder?

 

[expos4ever]

Mine is doing this too. Do the rest of your apps work if you open them outside finder?

Yes, the ones I have been using appear to function normally.

 

[Weaselboy]

Wasn't it the following?

SHIFT+COMMAND+4 chosen area shot
SHIFT+COMMAND+5 fullscreen shot

Nope... shift-cmd-3 is a full screen.

 

[JTToft]

Something has become messed up in your installation. An update to the latest OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 should fix it.

 

[expos4ever]

Something has become messed up in your installation. An update to the latest OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 should fix it.

Thanks, I will try this.

 

[expos4ever]

Something has become messed up in your installation. An update to the latest OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 should fix it.

I updated and the problem appears to have been fixed. Thanks.

 

[JTToft]

I updated and the problem appears to have been fixed. Thanks.

- Good to know. Glad it helped.