Finder has a stuck folder on it, won't respond to left click

[solinari6]

I recently installed an OSx app called FastCast, that lets me mirror my iphone to my mac. It seems to have caused some kind of issue with the Finder though, which persists even after uninstalling FastCast.

There's a "fastCast" folder stuck in finder here:

That "fastCast" at the top of the menu doesn't do anything. If I try to select that folder, nothing happens. And this seems to have messed up the finder icon. If I just left click on the finder icon, normally it should open a new finder window. Now, nothing happens.

I think left click is trying to open that "fastCast" folder, but is failing, so nothing happens. So now the only thing I can do with the finder icon is right click on it and select "new finder window" to open a window. It's really frustrating.

Anyone know how to fix that? Reboot didn't help.

 

[Gregg2]

Option-Go Menu > Library > Preferences

Find and delete the file com.apple.finder.plist

Reboot

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