reveal document or show original shows home folder?

I have an alias on my desktop

the alias points to a file deep inside my user's documents folder

i can double click the alias and the original opens as expected.

but when i right click it and pick "show original", the finder opens my home folder, with nothing selected, not the document's containing folder with the document selected.

same thing happens if i open the document then command-click the icon in the titlebar of the window, (which reveals a popup menu with the path to the document), and pull down to the document's containing folder: the finder reveals only my home folder.

what? why?

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  • this is happening on all my computers running Monterey

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solution here: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/422307/the-open-folder-command-in-terminal-and-the-reveal-file-in-finder-option-a

tl;dr: enter this in Terminal

rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
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solution here: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/422307/the-open-folder-command-in-terminal-and-the-reveal-file-in-finder-option-a

tl;dr: enter this in Terminal

rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
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