What the finder?!

[kjg1025]

I have a 2019 MacBook Pro, running Ventura 13.0.

Once or twice a day, every application will freeze except for most of the functionality of the finder. When this happens, no matter what you click on in the dock, etc., a new finder window opens. I can force quit every application, and that doesn't fix the problem; the only solution is to reboot.

I've recently kept a little diary to figure out what applications are running when I do this, and it varies. Apps that are consistently in use when this occurs are Outlook, iMessage, and Safari.

It is beyond annoying and, thus far, have not found anyone else on the interwebs with this issue. Any ideas?

 

[Starfia]

Sounds bizarre.

I had a similar issue shortly after upgrading to Ventura where any operation that depended on the file system would cause a lot of stodgy behaviour that required a restart. In my case, it turned out that, for some reason, the local Time Machine snapshot created automatically before the upgrade was somehow occupying all my remaining disk space when it should have been automatically purged. I didn't know about any of that and eventually had to learn a Terminal command to remove that snapshot, which finally fixed things.

Again, the issue doesn't sound identical, but it's one more thing to think about if you're nearing last resorts…?

 

[Slartibart]

you can check the console logs to see what’s going on.

 

[bogdanw]

When this happens, no matter what you click on in the dock, etc., a new finder window opens. I can force quit every application, and that doesn't fix the problem; the only solution is to reboot.

Try to restart the Dock, from Terminal:

killall Dock