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"<p>I recently upgraded to Yosemite, but I'm not sure if this is a Yosemite-related bug.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>My application folder (/Applications) does not open in finder (see screenshots)\r\nThe spinner keep spinning in the bottom right corner.\r\nAlso, when I \"Get Info\", it keeps calculating the size and never completes.\r\nAlso, when I drag the Applications folder to the dock, nothing happens.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>However, it works fine in Terminal:</p>\r\n\r\n<pre><code>$ cd /; ls -lh\r\ndrwxrwxr-x+ 129 root   admin   4.3K Oct 17 03:14 Applications\r\n</code></pre>\r\n\r\n<p>When I go inside the Applications folder (in terminal), I can list all the files in it.Oddly enough, most of them are greyed out, and it only says \"total 8\" when I have way more than 8 apps.</p>\r\n\r\n<pre><code>$ cd /Applications; ls -lh\r\ntotal 8\r\ndrwxr-xr-x   4 root   wheel   136B Apr 23  2013 3Hub.app\r\ndrwxr-xr-x@  4 myusername  staff   136B May 20 13:02 Adium.app\r\ndrwxrwxr-x   5 root   admin   170B Feb  7  2013 Adobe\r\ndrwxrwxr-x@  7 root   admin   238B Feb 14  2013 Adobe Acrobat XI Pro\r\nlrwxr-xr-x   1 root   admin    92B Feb 14  2013 Adobe Application Manager -> /Applications/Utilities/Adobe Application Manager/CCM/Utilities/AdobeCreativeCloudClient.app\r\ndrwxrwxr-x@  8 root   admin   272B Feb  7  2013 Adobe Bridge CS6\r\ndrwxr-xr-x@  3 myusername  staff   102B Jul 20  2012 Adobe Cleaner.app\r\ndrwxr-xr-x@  3 myusername  staff   102B Dec 12  2012 Adobe Download Assistant.app\r\ndrwxrwxr-x@  6 root   admin   204B Feb  7  2013 Adobe Extension Manager CS6\r\ndrwxrwxr-x@ 13 root   admin   442B Feb  7  2013 Adobe Illustrator CS6\r\ndrwxrwxr-x@ 13 root   admin   442B Feb  7  2013 Adobe Photoshop CS6\r\ndrwxr-xr-x   3 root   wheel   102B Feb  7  2013 Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.app\r\ndrwxr-xr-x@  3 myusername  admin   102B Oct 15  2012 Air Video Server.app\r\ndrwxr-x---@  5 myusername  staff   170B Dec 12  2013 Android Development Kit\r\ndrwxr-xr-x+  3 root   wheel   102B Jul 11 15:49 App Store.app\r\n</code></pre>\r\n\r\n<p>I can even open my apps in Terminal:</p>\r\n\r\n<pre><code>$ cd /Applications; open Notes.app\r\n</code></pre>\r\n\r\n<p>Mission Control works fine as well.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Does anyone know how I can see my Applications in Finder?\r\nI've tried the usual Disk Utility (verify/repair permissions) and even reinstalled a fresh copy of Mac OSX Yosemite (using recovery).</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Note: I did mess around with ~/Library/Preferences immediately after installing Yosemite because of the background flashing bug (I deleted some plists files to fix that bug).</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Any help would be appreciated, thanks!</p>\r\n\r\n<p>MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10), upgrade from latest mavericks</p>"