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  1. nico-nico

    Finder and other programs crashes

    I have a somewhat strange problem. I have two network external drives, one Dlink and one WD. When trying to access any of these or even any other machine on my home network that are listed under "Shared" on my iMac, Finder crashes. If I click on network and then try to access anything on the...
  2. bladerunner2000

    Cut/Paste Files and Folders in Finder

    It's 2016 and Apple still hasn't added this basic functionality into the finder... at least not properly. The UNIVERSALLY accepted method to cut/paste has always and forever should be cmd+x and then cmd+v. This is true for all applications I've ever come across except for the Finder. For the...
  3. S

    Folders added to Finder sidebar point to wrong drive

    Hi! On my iMac with OSX 10.10.5 I've 1 Raid 5 drive (ThunderBay, using SoftRAID) via Thunderbolt and 2 USB drives. I do use CCC to clone my Raid 5 to both USB's. When I drag a folder from my ThunderBay to Finders sidebar and I click it, it points correctly to the folder on the ThunderBay...
  4. H

    Issue with Spotlight + Finder

    Hey everyone, I'm running the latest OS X 10.11.2 (15C50) on a mid-2012 15" MBP (screenshot: http://cl.ly/2g00023m0E2f). I've been facing a rather annoying issue (even after resetting my Spotlight cache numerous times) – everytime I look for a file/folder using Spotlight and if Spotlight finds...
  5. C

    Finder copy stops if file open. Better tool?

    I have 2 TB of files on a external WD my book duo. I'm trying to copy the files to another external drive using finder on my iMac. It gets part way through and stops, complaining that the file is open. I don't see any files open, and logged off the other profiles. I even rebooted the iMac...
  6. w11buc

    Folder Disappearing in Finder

    Hi, I bought a new 5TB external hard drive to use as a back up for my existing 5TB drive. There are approx 1.2TB (80K) photos in various folders to be backed up and I used Intego Back Up Manager to copy the files across. I formatted the new drive correctly before starting the back up and...