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The other day Safari 6's "Show/Reveal in Finder" command in the downloads window suddenly stopped working. Whether right-clicking or clicking the magnifying glass/loupe button, I can't get the Finder to jump immediately to the file in question. Double-clicking to open the file works, but I don't want to do that immediately with all my downloads.
What can be done about this?
Remove the Finder plist. You can find it at ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist.
Then restart. This should reset any strange preferences keeping the Finder from showing the path and status bars.
One minor workaround is to have the Downloads folder in your Dock, set to Stack. That way, at the very least, you can see the status of the most recent download without needing to open/manage a separate window by just glancing at the Dock. It's not the same obviously, but it's something.
Best Answer
It's caused by the Apple Events bug in 10.8. It also affects other applications and makes Archive Utility stop responding when extracting archives.
As a workaround, you can terminate the appleeventsd process from Activity Monitor or by running
sudo killall -kill appleeventsd(without -kill the process is sent a TERM signal, which makes other processes stop responding).