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Aug 3, 2024, 5:30:02 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.

I had to do a restore of some of my Dropbox folders from time Machine. Dropbox is no longer showing in the
Finder sidebar and its lo longer an option in sidebar preferences. I can view Dropbox in my user section, but it is greyed out and shows a green dot with a checkmark. I can open Dropbox by clicking the folder icon on the menu bar, it opens in finder and shows all my folders. How can I solve this?

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To do so, just drag the Dropbox folder itself into the sidebar. The Dropbox folder can be found in your "Home" folder, the folder named after your computer user name. When you drag it in, you should see a blue line with a dot at the beginning indicating where the shortcut will be placed.

I tried that and Dropbox shows up in the side bar, but when I click on it, nothing happens. One thing I find strange, one of the folders I restored from Time Machine shows up if I click on it when I open Dropbox and all the files are there, but when I look at activity, the folder is not there and not all the files are listed. Other folders I restored do show up.

What if I delete Dropbox and re-install it, will I be able to restore my files/folders (I can copy files to another drive). More importantly, will I lose all the bonus storage that Dropbox allocated me years ago.

When I installed Sierra GM from El Capitan a few minutes ago, in the onboarding process I accidentally hit "yes" for uploading Desktop and Documents. I do want to do this, but not now as my computer can't stay on a connection for the days straight it will take to do so. I disabled Documents and Desktop sync through iCloud preferences, but Finder will not update and stop trying to upload the files. It moved Desktop and Documents to the iCloud Drive Directory. How can I undo this and move my Desktop and Documents back to my home folder, while stopping Finder from trying to upload them?

Copy all of your documents and desktop on iCloud and move it back to the computer. If you go to finder you will find the iCloud Drive with your dekstop and documents folder. Just copy or drag the contents and move it to the desktop/documents folder on the sidebar of finder. Unchecking the sync should stop it from syncing. Restarting the computer should fix the issue of it syncing assuming it's still doing that.

Yes I have tried restarting, resetting pRAM, restarting com.apple.bird, etc. Desktop & Documents Folders sync is off in iCloud Settings, yet my Desktop and Documents folders are in iCloud Drive (locally), This process is still trying to upload (I can't get it to stop!)

Deleting the exfiltrated items from iCloud is also painful. For some reason it seems you must drill down into each folder at the root of the iCloud Drive and delete the contents, and only then after the cloud system settles, can you delete the folder itself... but not always. The most painful is that iCloud Drive actually prevents you from deleting "Desktop" and "Documents" in the iCloud Drive.

When you have walked each folder such as "Desktop", "Documents", "Numbers", "Pages", ad nausium, and you have repeativally deleted the items at the root of the iCloud Drive which it reports cannot be deleted because of some error (in the browser interaction), you can then delete the individual folders except for Desktop and Documents.

But more importantly, this is a serious security breach in the system. macOS surreptitiously exfiltrated what would normally be critical and very private data folders and files from a customer's home directory to the "iCloud Drive" without their knowledge, permission, or any indication it was doing so.

Thank you for your suggestion but neither of those options worked. From similar problems I found on this site I tried using a blank CD which then enabled me to remove the untitled CD entries in the finder window. Seems odd but it worked.

Inserting a blank CD works, but you need to rename the blank CD each time if you have a list which says "untitled CD; Untitled CD 2, Untitled CD 3 etc. So for example you need to rename the unburnt CD 'Untitled CD 2" if

I just wanted to throw this out there.. I think part of my problem was the CD drive opening in windows XP in parallels. After I finally purged the untitled CD from finder I inserted a blank CD and... nothing. It then occured to me that parallels was running windows XP (My wife needs to use windows for her work VPN and I don't use at all.) Sure enough the CD drive was listed in the windows XP OS. Once I shut down parallels and windows the Mac OS recognized the disc. (details: parallels 6, Mac Lion OS, windows XP)

Had 14 untitled CD folders stuck in the side bar. Untitled CD 2 - 15. Above suggestion worked great. At first I renamed the CD fifteen times and it provided access to each of the 14 CD folders. Unfortunately, when I highlighted and ejected all of them at once, it only ejected one. The solution, uggh, was to rename each blank CD I inserted and eject the newly renamed folder each time. Took a while and a bit frustrating.

I hope Apple is on this bug. It stinks and is pretty bizarre for an apple product. I've owned Macs for 27 years and I've never seen a bug in Finder as ridiculous as this. Thanks for all the tips from the community! I hope the next update fixes this!

I also just had this happen, used the above method to remove them. It worked, but wow, what a completely bizarre way to have to get rid of this. Also hoping Apple is on this. Never seen this bug in any mac I've owned.

The Finder is the default file manager and graphical user interface shell used on all Macintosh operating systems. Described in its "About" window as "The Macintosh Desktop Experience", it is responsible for the launching of other applications, and for the overall user management of files, disks, and network volumes. It was introduced with the first Macintosh computer, and also exists as part of GS/OS on the Apple IIGS. It was rewritten completely with the release of Mac OS X in 2001.

The Finder uses a view of the file system that is rendered using a desktop metaphor; that is, the files and folders are represented as appropriate icons. It uses a similar interface to Apple's Safari browser, where the user can click on a folder to move to it and move between locations using "back" and "forward" arrow buttons. Like Safari, the Finder uses tabs to allow the user to view multiple folders; these tabs can be pulled off the window to make them separate windows. There is a "favorites" sidebar of commonly used and important folders on the left of the Finder window.