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
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
These last days I was going crazy with the Finder freezing randomly, but also other apps, forcing me to hard reboot each time. Running Big Sur on a Mini M1.
I called Apple for help, and I had a long conversation with a nice lady. She said I should upgrade to Ventura, that the engineers would require it anyway before looking at my problem.
So I updated all my back-ups, and went on installing Monterey 12.6.3 on an external drive. As it looked OK, I decided to try it on my main disk. Upgrading from Big Sur 11.7.4 to Monterey 12.6.3 took about an hour.
Well, so far so good. All seems to be working smoothly and no problems at all after a day. Also, my favorite apps and personal settings, shortcuts etc.. are working fine.
I'll come back here if the bad issues return.