Upgraded Mac Mini to Big Sur and after installation Finder is not working, tried to reinstall in safe mode but problem persists any ideas how to resolve this problem?
Finder not responding with Big Sur
Exact same issue. Been having trouble ever since I installed Big Sur. This is one of the worst OS upgrades I’ve ever dealt with from Apple. It’s ridiculous that it’s been an issue for this long. The words apple, and quality, are no longer synonymous.
Solved it by using CleanMyMac Utility, Maintenance Tab. I have been using it for 10 mins, and so I can't share with you much experience.
I was about to start running CleanmyMac when I noticed that the iPod Classic I had plugged in was listed twice in my finder list. I could not eject the iPod so just pulled the cable and that brought things back to normal... Logging out of iCloud did nothing. Very spooky and flakey...
Gave up and transferred my files to a new user account. Working just fine now.
I have the same problem. My solution is to put a few blank folders on my desktop. When I open one of those I effectively have Finder open. It is nevertheless a pain. A fix is needed SOON.
I put a new blank folder on the desktop and open that instead of Finder in Dock. Opening the new folder gives me a finder window.
Hey!
tried everything in this thread and the only thing that worked was disabling iCloud.
turned it off and finder and desktop items appeared within seconds!
tried everything in this thread and the only thing that worked was disabling iCloud.
turned it off and finder and desktop items appeared within seconds!
I had the exact same problem today, and I ended up restoring my home directory using Carbon Copy Cloner's snapshot function. All was well, until I realized that almost every app was taking forever to launch (with most timing out).
The culprit? Apple's "Find My" servers were down and the Mac was busy thrashing to try to establish this connection. I turned off "Find My Mac" and everything sprung to life.
The culprit? Apple's "Find My" servers were down and the Mac was busy thrashing to try to establish this connection. I turned off "Find My Mac" and everything sprung to life.
I am also having this issue, still unable to find a viable solution that's not so nuclear. Apple support told me to erase the mac or bring it in for repair. Going to keep looking for alternative solutions
Hey everyone. I recently started having this problem before updating to Big Sur and when I updated to Big Sur, I still had this same problem. However, I think I've discovered a solution that worked for me. For the record, I have a 2019 Macbook Pro 16" i9. Hopefully it can work for you too:
If you have any external USB hubs that have a large number of ports or you have a large portion of devices running through your computer, try disconnecting or turning off a few ports. I have a hub that runs 10 USB ports (I'm a music producer and use a lot of midi devices lol). I just purchased the hub from amazon last week and that's exactly when I started having this issue with Finder. It also had a quick charging feature and I was running devices through that. Once I unplugged a cable, everything went back to normal (I.e.: my finder was able to open properly, my desktop icons came back, and I'm able to access my files).
This may have been an issue very specific to me, but if everyone here is having the same problem that I had, maybe this can work for you. This is actually my very first time writing on a forum so I hope this helps!
Same issue. I have a 2017 iMac, upgraded to BigSur and finder won't load folders on the desktop. Like a commenter suggested I logged out of icloud and ta-da! files showed up. I'd like to be able to access icloud though and hope a fix is upcoming besides getting a new machine.
I ran in to this problem too. But mainly when entering my Downloads-folder. Cleaning that folder up seems to be the solution where I'd been looking for the past hours.. Also used DaisyDisk to clean up hundreds of GB used by Adobe-cache-files..
Yup. Extremely frustrating but worked for me like magic as soon as I disabled iCloud Drive and turned it back on.
What fixed it for me was restarting the iCloud services. Run this in Terminal:
sudo killall -kill bird cloudd
All I needed to do was below: (it helped at least for me)
- Open system preference
- Click on network
- Turn off your wifi
- Shut down your computer (if you're not able to do so press and hold power button for force shut down)
- Start your computer (your computer should already start behaving normal)
- Turn on your wifi back again
- Restart your computer with your wifi still turned on, it should be working now
Issue for me was:
- My top menu disappeared
- I keyboard character keys were disabled other than while inputting the admin password
- No actions could be performed while clicking on anything in finder window
- When tried to force quit app, or simple relaunch the finder (Opt+Cmd+Esc) it would let me click anything from available apps
- Rebooting the device wasn't making the problem go away
- Couldn't even launch terminal because search feature wouldn't allow me to input command