Opening windows animations don't come back after uninstalling TotalFinder

ArtusBecker · October 30, 2014, 7:46pm

Hello,

I use TotalFinder 1.6.13 with MacOS 10.10. After uninstalling TotalFinder, I’ve noticed that the opening windows animations were broken. I tried these command lines to fix this bit it didn’t work :

defaults write com.apple.finder FXDisableFancyWindowTransition -bool false

defaults write com.apple.finder AnimateWindowZoom -bool true

defaults write com.apple.finder DisableAllAnimations -bool false

Do you have any solution ? Thank you.

darwin · October 30, 2014, 7:52pm

TotalFinder uninstaller should set those. Have you restarted Finder.app via CMD+OPT+ESC after tweaking those plist keys?

Here are tweaks done during installation:

github.com

binaryage/totalfinder-installer/blob/master/script_app_post#L14-L17


TMP=`sw_vers -productVersion|grep '10\.\(8\|9\|10\)'`
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
# the goal here is to relaunch Finder.app under the right user aka "Mach bootstrap namespace"
# note: we can have multiple users logged in concruently (for fast user switching), each has its own loginwindow process

Here are tweaks executed during uninstallation:

github.com

binaryage/totalfinder-i18n/blob/master/uninstaller/uninstall.applescript#L91-L93


		do shell script "defaults write com.apple.finder DisableAllAnimations -bool false" with administrator privileges
		do shell script "defaults write com.apple.finder AnimateWindowZoom -bool true" with administrator privileges
		do shell script "defaults write com.apple.finder FXDisableFancyWindowTransition -bool false" with administrator privileges

rway7 · January 28, 2020, 3:52am

I have the same issue after uninstalled. The animation doesn’t come back after reboot. These tweaks doesn’t work. I’m running 10.15.2 (19C57).

darwin · January 28, 2020, 2:29pm

This is strange. Then please try to reset Finder into factory defaults:

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/darwin/804d06733194f201a595c0dbbf8130ea

_readme.md

To reset TotalFinder and Finder into factory defaults. 

1. in `Terminal.app` run
```bash
curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/darwin/804d06733194f201a595c0dbbf8130ea/raw/reset.sh | bash
``` 
2. and then launch `/Applications/TotalFinder.app` again

Alternatively in step 1 you might want to copy&paste the commands below by hand (skip empty lines and comments)

reset.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -e -o pipefail -x

# politely ask Finder to quit
osascript -e "tell application \"Finder\" to quit"

# (optional) backup settings as plists
mkdir ~/totalfinder-settings-backup
defaults export com.binaryage.totalfinder ~/totalfinder-settings-backup/com.binaryage.totalfinder.plist

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I would like to hear back if this helped.

rway7 · January 28, 2020, 2:57pm

Thank you! This one works. The animation is back!