# Component browser window behaving badly

**URL:** <https://forums.sketchup.com/t/component-browser-window-behaving-badly/54019>\
**Category:** SketchUp\
**Created:** [October 27, 2017, 8:41pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/component-browser-window-behaving-badly/54019 "2017-10-27T20:41:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![john\_mcclenahan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/john_mcclenahan/32/135377_2.png) [@john\_mcclenahan](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/john_mcclenahan)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2017, 8:41pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/component-browser-window-behaving-badly/54019/1 "2017-10-27T20:41:57Z")

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I’ve just reopened SU 2017 not long after a computer restart.

When first opened, the Component Browser shows a huge blank space at the top, which survives closing and reopening the window from the menu. If I minimise the window, then re-display it a couple of times, it reverts to almost normal, but the top now has parts collapsed over each other - the component image and Name and Description fields overlay what should be below them, the drop downs for choosing what to view in the component browser:  
 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/original/3X/8/5/85b8c561764bfe580528c873987bbed79f082813.png)

Using Mac OS X Sierra 10.12.6, iMac 27" 5K screen, SU 2017 latest v17.3.116.

A restart of SU fixes it, for the moment, but what triggers it in the first place? It’s happened several times recently, and other windows like Outliner also sometimes open with a large blank space at the top, and need one or two cycles of closing and opening, or minimising and maximising, to get straightened out.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/original/3X/f/2/f2a121500b085ed60806607a82720b092d800bb3.png) [@system](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2018, 4:42am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/component-browser-window-behaving-badly/54019/2 "2018-04-29T04:42:06Z")

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Closed on April 29, 2018, 4:42am UTC

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