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Running Windows 10 Home edition Since updating the NOW TV Player app to version 6.7.0.0 the application crashes before loading. The player loads a black screen for 5 seconds, followed by a blue screen for 2 seconds. The app then closes. I have attempted. The app didn't yet show up when searching for (parts of) the title, however, we could find it by searching for one of our existing Mac Apps and clicking through to our 'Developer Page'. When 'buying' the app (it's actually free), the icon pops up in LaunchPad and the progress bar for downloading & installing shows.

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Mac App Store: The Mac will only. Click the Open Anyway button to open that new app. Sierra will then note the developer and add it to its internal list of identified developers.
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Today, one of our customer brought in a Macbook Pro A1278 model. The customer told us that she did not really use this macbook that much, but one day, it started to turn off itself during booting. We powered it up, and we saw the apple logo with a loading bar (indicator), then it turned it off itself without any beep sound or any warning messages.

I've seen files disappearing in the Finder, too, but only very occasionally, and from inside a folder which was itself on my Desktop, not from the Desktop directly.

For me, the problem seemed to occur when the folder was currently open in the Finder, and a background app wrote or moved files there; the Finder wouldn't spot the extra file, not even after closing and reopening the folder.

I don't remember exactly how I fixed it, but it wasn't anything as drastic as deleting the folder! I think I tried removing the .DS_Store file, and then quitting and restarting the Finder. (You'll need to have enabled the Finder's Quit option, with something like TinkerTool.) Basically, you have to persuade the Finder to rescan the folder somehow.

Of course, certain files are hidden from the Finder deliberately: those starting with a dot, those with the Invisible HFS attribute, those listed in a .hidden file in that folder, and probably where permissions on the folder don't allow listing files &c. So you won't get it to display those whatever you do!

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You can quit the Finder by option-control clicking on the Finder icon in the Dock and choosing 'Relaunch.'

I'm the poster. I created an account because I just wanted to say that in my case I had also tried deleting the .ds_store. Of course, I had hoped that would work. Unfortunately in my case I had to delete his whole folder.

I'll have to go along with Gidds. Often, when I'm having the Finder behaving in a funky manner, I find that deleting the invisible .DS_Store file and relaunching the Finder solves the problem.
From a GroupLogic page:
'...comments are kept in a directory meta-information file called .DS_Store. When OS X moves or copies files around, the .DS_Store files in the appropriate folders are modified so that the comments move along with the file, even though they aren't stored in the meta-information of the file itself. ...Finally, the .DS_Store file was not designed for multi-user use. If multiple users modify the file simultaneously data loss can occur. Although this happens with comments it is more often seen with the default view and the positioning of icons for a folder [emphasis mine]. The problem is that the last person who writes to the .DS_Store will have their changes overwrite some or all of the changes other people have made. This is even further complicated by the fact that the .DS_Store files are written lazily. - that is, until the volume is unmounted the Finder will not try to put add its changes to the .DS_Store.'

Perhaps related, my Macintosh HD desktop icon's free space info is rarely accurate. (I have 'Show item info' checked, so that I can see total space and free space.) Finder says one thing, the icon says another. Sometimes it's been off by 10GB! I don't think it's related to Trash, because I usually leave it empty.

This is because the info in the icon is updated only the next time Finder is restarted. If you do a 'get info' on the hard disk though, then the free space shown is correct. So you need to quit Finder and when it restarts then the free space info will be correct - Just press Command-option-escape and relaunch finder, the info will be correct. As an alternative type df -h in the terminal - this always shows the correct disk space info for all mounted disks

copying any file into the base directory will cause the size or free space to be re-calculated
I've noticed this in 2 cases,
1) On the Desktop when you have Show Item Info (in View options)
the 'xxx MB free' does not update until something at the base level of that hard drive changes (copy or move a text clipping or something small to that drive, and it should update very quickly)
2) In List view when Calculate All Sizes is turned on, a folders size does not update if a sub folder is actually getting changes, you have to make a change to the number of files (one in, or one out) in the folder you want to see the size of.
These cases do not affect the Get Info window, only what is displayed directly in finder windows. I Hope this is somewhat clear, I'm a little tired.