finder – After replace to MacOS Large Sur 11.7.7 desktop aliases fail to open the unique folders

Doable Repair:
Add the guardian folder to your Finder Sidebar.

Extra Information:
I had a really related drawback you described. After upgrading my 2019 iMac to Sonoma lately (skipped a number of OS variations), I had a number of aliases on my desktop to numerous folders. Double-clicking these aliases opened the proper folder for some, however opened my consumer folder for others. After plenty of looking out and testing, I narrowed down the issue I used to be experiencing and located it to be fairly particular, making it arduous for outdoor assist to recreate the problem. Primarily based on one other submit I discovered over on the Apple neighborhood boards, I noticed this bug solely appeared when utilizing the Columns Finder view. If switching to Record, Icons or Gallery view, closing the Finder window after which re-opening the alias, it labored accurately. However I’m a die-hard Columns view consumer, so this wasn’t an incredible answer for me. And should you change views typically, this may give the impression of “It fastened itself!” after which the following day it’s damaged once more. I noticed this in a few different posts concerning the subject.

I in contrast the aliases I needed to different folders that did work even in Columns view and after much more testing, I discovered that this solely affected aliases pointing to any folder inside my ~/Paperwork folder. It’s attainable that this bug might have an effect on different particular folders like this, in case your problematic aliases weren’t pointing to Paperwork subfolders. Ultimately I discovered the issue is probably going tied to your Finder Sidebar. I’ve custom-made and trimmed my down through the years to just a few folders, like Dropbox, my consumer folder and a few improvement folders I entry typically. But when I added the ~/Paperwork folder again into my sidebar, all of my Desktop aliases to Paperwork subfolders labored, even in Columns view.

Once more, the seemingly unrelated setup of a custom-made sidebar might make this bug appear unimaginable for Help workers to recreate the problem. And curiously sufficient, should you don’t have your consumer folder within the sidebar, it can trigger that default window to go all the best way again to your arduous drive folder. This makes me suppose that it might have an effect on different “particular case” folders.

As a facet observe, I did strive creating the aliases by dragging and dropping, by way of the context menu (after which shifting the alias to the desktop) and even with symlinks created by way of Terminal. All of them had the identical habits and the identical repair labored for all of them.

I hope this helps you or anybody else that could be experiencing this bug. If anybody finds out another specifics about it, please replace with particulars that you just discover.