[captiva]

Running 10.2.6 with no major problems.

This morning I clicked on a Finder window while in IE 5.2 and noticed that the Finder appeared to quit, then restart on its own. That is, everything cleared off the desktop, then redrew.

I quit out of IE and clicked around the Finder windows and everything looked fine. Folders opened etc. But then I noticed that the toolbar icon for "home" was just a blank sheet of paper instead of the home icon. It still functioned though.

I logged out and logged back in, it was fixed.

But just to take care of things, I repaired permissions....found a bunch, mostly having to do with IE... but it said it repaired them all. Checked the Finder, everything still okay.

On a whim decided to add another icon to my Finder toolbar, so went to Customize Toolbar and found that I couldn't drag anything there, nor could I drag anything off (it's already a little customized). I can select icons, but when I drag, nothing happens.

So I logged off, logged back on as my test user, still couldn't customize the toolbar....same symptoms.

Okay, now what... I'm thinking I need to delete prefs for the Finder? Where would those be, and what would be side effects (I assume I'd lose all the tweaking to views, background picture, dock location?)

Also, if I force quit the Finder, how do I start it up again?

thanks
cap

[pat++]

You can try to delete (or move on your Desktop, if you're afraid of loosing settings) ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist ( "~" stands for you home directory)

btw, if you force quit the Finder, it will restart automatically.

[captiva]

thanks pat!

I will try that. also thanks for the info about the Finder. I always wondered about that.

cap