help I'm missing the progress bar

[DustyShaw]

Transferring files today and the progress bar is nowhere to be found

I tried Finder>Window>Show Progress Window but Show Progress Window is greyed out.

I know it will be greyed out when no file is transferring, but I am transferring a large file and it's still greyed out.

Any ideas how I can get it back?

Mac Mini M2
Ventura 13.4.1

 

[Bigwaff]

Transferring files today and the progress bar is nowhere to be found

I tried Finder>Window>Show Progress Window but Show Progress Window is greyed out.

“Transferring” meaning… copying files to the same disk? Different disk? Cloud storage? Etc. More details needed.

 

[DustyShaw]

Transferring from Photos app to Finder, same disc.

I also tried transferring from Mac HD to an external disc and experienced the same lack of a progress window.

This is a recent development, I never noticed the progress window missing before on this machine or OS

 

[chrfr]

Transferring from Photos app to Finder, same disc.

I also tried transferring from Mac HD to an external disc and experienced the same lack of a progress window.

This is a recent development, I never noticed the progress window missing before on this machine or OS

The Photos app won't show a progress bar in Finder, so there's nothing unusual there. The "Show progress bar" item in the menu is normally grey if there isn't an operation going on within Finder.
Photos app progress is pretty opaque and it just doesn't show any sort of progress for lots of operations.

 

[bogdanw]

You can try to reset the position of the progress window. From Terminal

defaults delete com.apple.finder CopyProgressWindowLocation; killall Finder

The first part deletes the stored value for CopyProgressWindowLocation, the second part restarts Finder. The progress window should be now in the centre of the screen.

 

[DustyShaw]

The Photos app won't show a progress bar in Finder, so there's nothing unusual there. The "Show progress bar" item in the menu is normally grey if there isn't an operation going on within Finder.
Photos app progress is pretty opaque and it just doesn't show any sort of progress for lots of operations.

Huh! I've been dragging large videos from Photos to my desktop which I don't do often so I never noticed the lack of progress bar. I had no idea Photos didn't show progress with transfers, and now that I'm thinking about it more I wonder where it's transferring from anyway, if it's already been imported? For example when I drag a large video from Photos to desktop it takes several minutes. Why is it not on my Mac hard drive after I import it from Photos?

 

[DustyShaw]

You can try to reset the position of the progress window. From Terminal

defaults delete com.apple.finder CopyProgressWindowLocation; killall Finder

The first part deletes the stored value for CopyProgressWindowLocation, the second part restarts Finder. The progress window should be now in the centre of the screen.

Very good, thanks for the instructions. I won't use them just yet because I tried it again after another restart and now I am seeing the progress bar when copying from an external disc.

 

[DustyShaw]

I just noticed there actually is a progress indicator in Photos. On the top bar of the Photos window to the right of the size slider [pic]

 

[chrfr]

I just noticed there actually is a progress indicator in Photos. On the top bar of the Photos window to the right of the size slider [pic]

Yes, for some actions you do get that, but that isn't affected by the Finder progress window setting.