It has been one of the oldest problems on Macs, when a document shows with the wrong icon. Why, and how to fix it?
Finder
You try to open a document – in this case, one of Firefox’s bookmarks – and nothing happens. What could be wrong? It turns out it’s a bug, of course. But where?
Why do the Open File and Save File dialogs normally behave differently with respect to tagged folders? It’s a question of semantics.
Three bugs may have been fixed in 10.14.3: About This Mac’s Storage bar (at last), App Store glitches showing apps need to be redownloaded, and some black on grey text.
Together with the Quick Actions bar, they force you to scroll to view an item’s metadata, even on large displays.
It’s worth refreshing all your Finder Aliases before copying or cloning a volume to update their link info. Here’s a free tool to do that and more: Alifix.
When is macOS like a city? Or an Impressionist sketch? Could it ever become free of noticeable bugs?
Do you use Finder Column views and make Aliases to folders? If one of those gets broken, then the Finder may hang on you.
There are still many outstanding from 10.14, and one going back many years.
A new version of Mojave brings some fixes, and introduces some new bugs. Here a few for starters. I’ll add more as we discover them.
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