I installed Monterey a few weeks ago.
Something I have never experienced since I use Mac: if I try to open a file (Word, Excel, pdf, ...) by double clicking on it, it simply does not work, the file doesn't open ! When you click, it looks like something is going to happen but nothing opens...
Does Monterey have Finder bugs?
Thank's for help
Daniel
This is likely the same as I cannot open files(especially PDF files)… - Apple Community
Both Ventura 13.3 and 12.6.4 have a security fix which breaks file opening when a file's path contains certain Unicode sequences.
Thank's for your help. The symptoms seem the same but apparently the causes are different.
Something I don't like is that without doing anything special, the problem goes away. This is what happened after rebooting!
Now it works just like before: whether I use Preview or skim, my pdf files open when I click on them, same for Word or Excel files which didn't open when I clicked on them! How long will this continue to work? I cross my fingers.
It is strange that Apple's engineers don't show more reactivity to what seems to be a bug in Finder with multiple causes...
Some precisions. It seems that my problem has 2 origins:
1) the use of SKIM whose latest version seems to be buggy on Monterey at least. Now I open all pdf files with Preview and itt works...
2) the file name must not contain any special characters like @, otherwise the file will not open when clicked... I read somewhere that even blank characters in the name cause problems.
Hi riccifromsunnyvale, It has nothing to see with what you say.
I have a short pdf file, no special characters in the title and it dosen't open.
I restarted in safe mode, it solved the issue for a few days, now, it's back again.
As safe mode cleans caches, this is where I should look at, I think...
Finder Won't Open Files in Monterey 12.6.4
