Can’t use finder after Time Machine restore iMac 2014
iMac 2014 running latest possible OS. Bought a new M4 Mac Studio-not yet opened. Was getting rid of old photos and file in prep to migrate. On a start of old iMac it stuck at apple pic only halfway on status bar. Went into recovery mode on iMac and did restore from a TM back up on a 6TB Lacie HD. Was able to get logged in after restart in usual mode, but could not use finder at all. Went into recovery mode and ran terminal with rm~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist. Tried usual mode and able to log in but still cannot use finder. Some files on old iMac not backed up other than on TM-some old photos and user files (word, pages, numbers and excel files). Would like to copy those files to something other than TM to have 2 back ups prior migrating to new computer. How do I get finder to work after restore from TM?
iMac 27″, macOS 12.7