11.3 Finder Issues

[blicked]

Is anyone else having ridiculous Finder problems since updating to 11.3? I've tried rebooting, I've tried doing the whole "sudo periodic daily weekly monthly" thing, and Disk Utility First Aid didn't indicate any problems.

I'm on a maxed out 16" MacBook Pro with the 8TB HD, and I'm currently looking at a Dock with no dot underneath the Finder icon, and it's been sitting like that for awhile now, and trying to start it up just results in ye olde rainbow spinny.

 

[wrldwzrd89]

Yes. I am having a weird Finder problem different from yours - 2018 refurb Mac mini. Finder sometimes mysteriously sends ALL windows to the Computer view, named the same as your Mac is - after logging in via an Apple Watch when the screen was locked. This has been present since 11.2, and all the updates since then haven't fixed it.

 

[MEJHarrison]

I woke my computer up today to work and it was unresponsive. I finally got it restarted and that didn't help. I have no Finder running on boot up.

Next I tried a complete shut down. No luck. I started in Safe Mode and still no finder. Unless something went haywire over night, I should have enough disc space. But no matter what I do, when it starts up, I have no finder (no menu bar across the top).

I don't recall installing anything new in the past few days. I've been playing with Unity lately, but have pretty much moved that work to the laptop over the weekend since it's a lot quicker. That's the only new thing I can think of that I've changed recently.

When it starts, everything appears normal except for the lack of a menu at the top. If I start something up, I can get to the menu bar. But if I shut that app down again, no menu bar.

I'm on a 2017 27" iMac. I'd appreciate any advice people might have.

 

[KoolAid-Drink]

I woke my computer up today to work and it was unresponsive. I finally got it restarted and that didn't help. I have no Finder running on boot up.

Next I tried a complete shut down. No luck. I started in Safe Mode and still no finder. Unless something went haywire over night, I should have enough disc space. But no matter what I do, when it starts up, I have no finder (no menu bar across the top).

I don't recall installing anything new in the past few days. I've been playing with Unity lately, but have pretty much moved that work to the laptop over the weekend since it's a lot quicker. That's the only new thing I can think of that I've changed recently.

When it starts, everything appears normal except for the lack of a menu at the top. If I start something up, I can get to the menu bar. But if I shut that app down again, no menu bar.

I'm on a 2017 27" iMac. I'd appreciate any advice people might have.

I’d do an in-place install by booting to the Recovery partition and then initiating the installer to reinstall macOS Big Sur. No data or applications will be lost.

 

[MEJHarrison]

I’d do an in-place install by booting to the Recovery partition and then initiating the installer to reinstall macOS Big Sur. No data or applications will be lost.

I was working and didn't have time to fool with it much. I did notice after 10-20 minutes, Finder seemed to start working again. I also found references to people talking about disabling iCloud fixing the issue. Since I was able to get work done, I just let it be. Eventually, I think it re-downloaded everything from scratch. Don't know what to say, but the problem sorted itself out a day later.

I guess my machine just lost it's iCloud mind. But it's much better now.

 

[Schroinx]

I'm running 11.3.1 on an air 2017. My finder also freezes. I can open files fine through the applications including on the network.

 

[ewu]

I roll back system from Big Sur to Catalina/Mojave,
I suddenly feel that my 2017 iMac becomes powerful. and everything backs to normal.

Big Sur now only runs on external ssd, updated to 11.3.1
it is experimental OS for me.