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The "Show In Finder" action isn't working on Mac OS X Mountain Lion. The problem has just started to occur all the time, before it was a bit sporadic, but now it happens all the time.
Things that don't work:
In the chrome Downloads page clicking any of the "Show in Finder" links.
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Occasionally, like right at this moment, I cannot access my windows share from my mac.
Normally, it works, but every now and then, the computer name won't be displayed under SHARED in Finder. Rebooting the windows computer usually fixes this, but it's inconvenient. The Windows computer can see…
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OS X has build in support for going to certain Folders (Home, Utilities, Desktop, etc.) via a Shortcut.
I wanted to emulate this behavior for the the Downloads Folder. The only thing that is missing the script below is that it won’t succeed when no window is opened in the Finder (see Error message)…
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In a thread on this forum there is an interesting solution on how to open a duplicate of an already open Finder window with the help of an AppleScript:
How do you duplicate current open Finder view?
With the new tabbed Finder in OS X 10.9 Mavericks, I am wondering if there is a way to implement an…
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Here's one for ya. Upon a forced quit of the Finder with unsuccessful relaunch, "killall Finder" in terminal returns:
"No matching processes belonging to you were found"
Oddly enough, the PID for finder does actually show up after a "ps -A" to reveal all processes. But the time is perpetually listed…
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