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The "Show In Finder" action isn't working on Mac OS X Mountain Lion. The problem has just started to occur all the time, before it was a bit sporadic, but now it happens all the time.

Things that don't work:

  • In the chrome Downloads page clicking any of the "Show in Finder" links.
  • Right clicking a file in XCode and choosing "Show in Finder"

Things that work:

  • open . in terminal
  • command-n after command tabbing to Finder.

Things I've tried to fix the issue:

  • Opt - Right Click finder in the dock and relauching
  • Restarting my computer

Anybody ever experienced this issue?

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Experienced it... but no idea how I solved it other than possibly through OS updates. Command-clicking a Dock icon will probably not work as well? – Daniel Beck♦ Sep 25 '12 at 18:36
@DanielBeck Command-clicking a dock icon does work – Gavin Miller Sep 25 '12 at 18:43
Just wondering. Do you use TotalFinder? This might be related. – Darwin Sep 29 '12 at 6:51
@Darwin nope. I don't use total finder. – Gavin Miller Sep 29 '12 at 20:37
I've seen it happen as well. Could it be that you're using Dropbox? – slhck♦ Oct 27 '12 at 22:07
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It is a bug introduced by Apple in 10.8.2.

Workaround: when it happens, in Terminal run the following:

sudo killall -KILL appleeventsd

Alternatively, use Activity Monitor to kill appleeventsd. More information on the issue.

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This didn't work for me on 10.8.2. – Joseph Mornin Nov 9 '12 at 18:32
Didn't work for me either. – Jean-Philippe Pellet Nov 15 '12 at 20:50
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Worked on 10.8.2. Would have accepted sooner, but stopped happening after I posted the question -- one day I will find Murphy and slap him with a piece of peanut butter toast. Peanut butter side up! – Gavin Miller Nov 19 '12 at 16:12
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Terminating appleeventsd works for me as well. It also fixes an issue where Archive Utility stops responding whenever you extract an archive. – Lauri Ranta Jan 12 at 9:51
didn;t work for me but @CraftyThumber worked – Muhammad Junaid Sidhu Jan 23 at 8:02
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I had to delete the lockfile also:

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

and then restarting the finder (or you can reboot):

killall Finder
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Didn't work for me. – Jean-Philippe Pellet Nov 15 '12 at 20:52
Running sudo killall -KILL appleeventsd didn't work for me. Simply deleting my Finder preferences did, though. – Ashley Coolman Jan 11 at 13:54
this work for me, thanks – Muhammad Junaid Sidhu Jan 23 at 8:01

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