Disclaimer: I have a mac pro with multiple hard drives.
As of very recently, I noticed that the finder would basically freeze under certain circumstances. When I force it to relaunch, it starts with the desktop folder highlighted, and that works fine. Applications folder also is accessible, as is dropbox.
But when I click on my "home/profile" folder or google drive, it stops responding. Sometimes I can get it to highlight other folders but it will still display nothing. Other times it will just freeze. The X button in the corner of the window is immediately unresponsive as soon as this starts happening.
I just cloned my hard drive with my home folder/profile on it (different from boot drive) but that didnt seem to fix the problem. It's a bit odd because my desktop is on that hard drive, so I cant see why it would be perfectly responsive, but my documents folder, etc, wouldnt be, especially when you consider that I can access any file (as far as I'm aware) on the hard drive as long as it's through another program.
Any experience with this?
Edit: oh for the love of god. One final relaunch for additional testing and everything is working perfectly all of a sudden.
As of very recently, I noticed that the finder would basically freeze under certain circumstances. When I force it to relaunch, it starts with the desktop folder highlighted, and that works fine. Applications folder also is accessible, as is dropbox.
But when I click on my "home/profile" folder or google drive, it stops responding. Sometimes I can get it to highlight other folders but it will still display nothing. Other times it will just freeze. The X button in the corner of the window is immediately unresponsive as soon as this starts happening.
I just cloned my hard drive with my home folder/profile on it (different from boot drive) but that didnt seem to fix the problem. It's a bit odd because my desktop is on that hard drive, so I cant see why it would be perfectly responsive, but my documents folder, etc, wouldnt be, especially when you consider that I can access any file (as far as I'm aware) on the hard drive as long as it's through another program.
Any experience with this?
Edit: oh for the love of god. One final relaunch for additional testing and everything is working perfectly all of a sudden.