Sometimes when I click on the desktop, Finder opens. How can I disable this in OS X 10.9?
For what it's worth, it was already happening in Mountain Lion.
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In Finder: cmd+J ➝ Sort by: none.
Its looks like this might be a Mountain Lion Bug and a bug report has been submitted to Apple for this issue. Additionally, after some testing its seems that hidden files and folders will not open when double-clicked from with in a Finder window that has an icons, lists, or Cover Flow view selected.
Note: For the Cover flow view double-click does not work in the list view, yet double clicking items in the cover flow section will cause the file or folder to open.
Note: If you double-click hidden files/folders on the desktop they open as expected, which seems odd, and kind of indicates that this not working in most Finder window views is just a bug.
Work Arounds until the bug (hopefully its a bug and not a new feature) is fixed by Apple:
Use the "column" or "Cover Flow" Finder views.
- With column view selected hidden folders just open when clicked on, and hidden files open as expected when double-clicked.
With the Cover Flow view selected the work around is two steps.
- Click on the hidden file or folder in the list on the bottom of the window.
- Then double-click on the file or folder to open it.
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Best Answer
The reason is because you didn't exit that finder window last time you exited logged out or shut down your mac.
If not that then you have some form of malware on your computer