How to recover Finder window configuration. All Finder windows have reset themselves to be open to the same folder
I want to know is how to restore the Finder configuration. There must be a file somewhere that I can restore from Time Machine that will restore the window configuration from an earlier backup.
Finder has once again changed the content of all its windows. Every Finder window is supposed to show the contents of a folder or location. Each Finder window can show the content of different folders. I had 55 Finder windows open across 10 desktops. They were each showing different folders. Today when I woke up they are all showing one of two locations: either my home directory or the location representing my computer. What happened? How can I get back to the folder structure I had yesterday?
The placement of the folders is unchanged, just their target directory.
Finder is flakey like this. Here's a post from the past with a similar issue: Restarting MacOS sometimes causes desktop… - Apple Community
I'd say this happens every couple of months. It's always a surprise to me, I never see it coming and can't associate it with any cause, it's never a result of a crash or kernal panic.
Mac OS Monterey 12.6, iMac 27"
iMac 27″, macOS 12.6