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Maricel Fergason

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Aug 3, 2024, 4:29:04 PM8/3/24

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I'd like to reset an old ipod nano my brother used to use and I'm wondering if there was a way I could get finder on my Windows computer. I heard that they switched it so you need to reset it in Finders instead of iTunes, but I can't find a download for Finders. Is it a software you can only get if you buy a Mac w/ it built in or are you able to download it somewhere on the apple website?

On Macs running Catalina or later, iTunes is no longer used (Finder is used instead) but on Windows computers iTunes continues to be used for everything as it was before. There is no way to install Finder on Windows.

If resetting your iPod does not fix the issue, the next recommended step is a Restore, which is totally different (and as far as I recall from my own nano, still an option in iTunes). To Restore an iPod, connect it to iTunes and click on the device icon when it appears in iTunes:

That displays the Device/Summary pane and you will see the Restore button on this pane (the screenshot below shows my iPod Touch, but the iPod nano will show a similar screen, but without the iOS bit):

However, if all you actually want to do is remove your music so that your brother can add his own, simply Sync (synchronise) the iPod with the iTunes Library he is using, or if you are sharing one iTunes, his selection of songs. That does not require a Reset or a Restore (or Finder).

Alright, but how do I get to where I can reset my iPod? I've tried right clicking the iPod name in iTunes and it comes up w/ 3 options; Eject, Tranfer Purchases, and Reset Warnings. I've tried pressing reset warnings and it says something on the top where the music playing is shown but it goes away really quickly so I can't read it.

Finder Windows is a floating panel which gives you instant access to the list of open Finder windows at any time. It solves the daily struggle of trying to reach the desired folders among the ever changing mess of open windows.

I'm trying to combine this to my Quit All workflow (but tested it alone), since Finder windows stay open. I've been searching and trying things out for the past hour. I found this thread, but no matter what I do, it doesn't work. Is there a way to make it work? Or is there a working Applescript that can activate Finder and then do Option+Cmd+W?

Ah, it works. Sorry about that, I am having weird things with script running for some reason. Everything works fine in the Script Editor, but then it doesn't work, as a script file, a NASAppleScript or as a script.

As a rule of thumb, don't use NSAppleScript without a good reason. Use a normal Run Script Action with Language = /usr/bin/osascript (AS) instead.

The latter is run in the background like a normal script. NSAppleScript is run on Alfred's main thread, so it will block Alfred. Because you're calling from another application, rather than a GUI-less background command, it may also do weird things with focus etc.

AppleScript is a weird beast, and some things fail utterly in a Run Script Action, but work in a Run NSAppleScript one. But try to get it to work as a Run Script Action with /usr/bin/osascript (AS) first.

The latter is run in the background like a normal script. NSAppleScript is run on Alfred's main thread, so it will block Alfred. Because you're calling from another application, rather than a GUI-less background command, it may also do weird things with focus etc.

AppleScript is a weird beast, and some things fail utterly in a Run Script Action, but work in a Run NSAppleScript one. But try to get it to work as a Run Script Action with /usr/bin/osascript (AS) first.

I have an M1 Mini (OS 14.3) with two monitors, and since I'm always working on multiple projects, each with its own folder, I keep Finder windows open for each of them, some on different desktops, some with a dedicated desktop of their own.

Recently, when the Mac's been sitting idle for any length of time (typically overnight, but not always), I'll find that all of the windows that pointed to folders in Dropbox are now showing the root directory (see attached pic.) I have to re-map all of the windows back to the DB folder they were originally displaying. This is a huge PITA, and forces me to keep a list of the projects that I'm trying to pay attention to. Rebooting, deleting plists, Safe Mode, and all the usual Mac Finder hacks have no effect.

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The DB icon is present in the menu bar. If I terminate it in Activity Monitor, I can bring it back by re-launching the app. DB seems to be functioning normally; it's just the weird thing with folder windows reverting to root that's a problem.

The problem seems to have gone away on its own, at least for the time being. I made no deliberate changes to installed software or startup items, so all I can think of is an update that incidentally resolved the issue. OS is still Sonoma 14.4.1, build 23E224, which dates back to early March (which is when the problem appeared, fwiw) so that's not where the fix came from. I have no idea if DB got a tweak in recent weeks.

I did replace a cheapo Amazon ethernet cable with a quality cat 6 cable (vastly improving my internet speed) at about the time things cleared up . . . perhaps DB was getting borked by the lousy connection? (The cheap cable had been there for a long time, so \_(ツ)_/ )

@JPDemers Thanks for sharing your experience on this. I'm on a later Dropbox version than the one you reported, and I'm still seeing this issue, so I don't think Dropbox did anything to fix it. It might just be a rare bug. Did you find any way to backup the session windows for Finder? From what I can tell, Finder saves its state in the "Saved Application State" folder, but this folder is not backed up by Time Machine, so I can't use it to get back the lost window tabs.

Finder's "GO" menu has a "recent folders" option that might prove useful, but I don't know how it defines "recent"... i.e. whether a folder opened several days ago and simply left open will be "recent".

I currently use a few alfred workflows to open certain folders that I use for my work. A lot of the time I need to open more than one of these folders and I usually put them on right side of my screen, one above the other.

I've already set up a new workflow to open two finder windows but it just opens two windows on top of each other. This is fine really, but I'd like to make a workflow that would arrange the windows without me doing it.

The AppleScript below will open the folders specified in the theFolders property at the top of the script. By default, it opens each folder as requested, in a new Finder window on the right-hand side of the screen, each below the last.

I've put the script into Alfred but it's not working as it should. It's opening both windows but they're too tall. The bottom one does start in the right place (right under the top one) but it goes below the screen boundaries.

Evenly spaced from the centre of the screen vertically. So like in the diagram I sent, the windows are both the same vertical distance from the centre of the screen. I thought it was clear that they are not evenly space horizontally.

They aren't right-aligned with the right edge of the screen, which is where the current script puts them. The implication is that you don't want that behaviour. The boxes appear to be left-aligned with the centre of the screen.

Here is a really useful macro, first suggested to me by Adam Engst - basically, every time the Finder activates, it brings all the Finder windows to the front. Once you've used this macro, you'll find it hard to use a Mac that doesn't do this!

There are occasions where the Finder (or any application really) can come to the front (activate) and then immediately deactivate. The most obvious and pertinent example of this would be if the Select Menu Item action triggered a menu in the Finder - the net effect of that is to activate the Finder, select the menu, and then switch back to the last application.

Now the problem happens if the Finder activates, and then deactivates, and then the Select Menu Item action executes, and that activates the Finder, selects the menu, and then switches back. But that second activation triggers the macro a second time, so the process repeats. Indefinitely. Which is not good at all. The conditional defends against this case.

Actually, I have no idea why I used the menu instead of the action. One down side of the action would happen in exactly the above case - it would bring the windows of the second application to the front instead of the Finder.

The macOS for decades has allowed an application to become frontmost by clicking on a window visible in the background with the mouse, but sometime after OSX came along when windows from other applications obscure that app's windows other than the one clicked they remain obscured.