Finder doesn't become the active app when you activate it

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Premiere is open, I click the icon in the Dock or CMD-TAB to it, and it doesn't become active. Premiere stays in front while the menu bar reflects that Finder is active.

This doesn't happen when I use third party file viewers like Pathfinder.

MacOS 13.6.9

jtanimator

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Experiencing the exact same issue and it’s extremely frustrating. grateful to JesperBjorke for explaining the bug pattern since that behavior lines up exactly with what’s happening to me on my M1 Pro MacBook Pro

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JesperBjorke

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I'm struggling with the same problem. I've gotten somewhat used to Premiere just being difficult sometimes. Because the problem isn't 100% consistant for me. It randomly decides to do be difficult for a couple of hours, a whole day or just work fine for multiple days. I finally discovered a decently reliable way to reproduce it on my machine, but no explanation for why it happens.

I have Premiere’s main window (the one with "Import" "Edit" & "Export" at the top) on Monitor 1 and a second window on Monitor 2. When the last window I interacted with is the main window and my finder window is located behind Premiere on Monitor 2, finder does not open properly.

Monitor 1 = Main Window
Monitor 2 = Secondary Window

Active Monitor 1 + Finder located on Monitor 1 ✓

Active Monitor 1 + Finder located on Monitor 2 X

Active Monitor 2 + Finder located on Monitor 1 ✓

Active Monitor 2 + Finder located on Monitor 2 ✓

Mac Mini M2 Pro (2023)
MacOS Sequoia 15.4
Premiere 24.6.8 (Build 3)

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Bruce Bullis

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We can't reproduce that behavior, here; clicking on the PPro dock icon brings PPro to the front, and Cmd-tabbing to PPro then hitting key strokes, sends those key strokes to PPro.

Do you have some interesting utility(ies) running, that might interfere with app switching behavior?

PathFinder was cool, haven't used it in years...

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