Accidents of Finder

Everything works OK for a while and clicking functions Finder OK but finally I get the ball spinning after clicking on the viewfinder screen and nothing works until I Force Quit Finder.

I've seen the suggestion to delete the Finder plist but my library shows 3 Finder plists, I deleted the first plist but should I delete the other 2 i.e. file:///Users/defaultuser/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist.LTITz50 and file:///Users/defaultuser/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist.x1Qw3TB

You can remove those and then relaunch the Finder and see if there is an improvement.

But these problems are usually symptoms of something else, other than the Finder preferences corrupt.

I suggest you run Etrecheck and post the report here. It can shed light on possible software conflicts that may be behind it.

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