towers1209

Q: Help! What's wrong - finder process terminates every minute

I would really appreciate it if anybody (specially, apple support) can help me in understanding and fixing this problem.

 

I just noticed today that my finder process is dying periodically, just a little over 60 seconds or so  -- consistently.  That is, even if I kill the finder process at 59th second, and the last process termination happened at around the 7th second mark, the current Finder process terminates at around the 7th second mark.  

 

Prior to my noticing this problem, I was attempting to copy a file from my local Google Drive to a USB drive.  As I was renaming the file that I would like to copy, I noticed that Finder window just blinked out on me. I opened two Finder windows (one for source finder, and the other as the destination finder), attempted to rename the file again, and before I was done both Finder windows blinked out on me again.

 

That's when I started to notice about the Finder processes getting terminated at an almost regular interval. I use the Activity Monitor utility to watch what's happening to the finder process.

 

I am not sure if this is important, however, here are the open files and ports whe the Finder process is running:

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/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder

/System/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/sRGB Profile.icc

/System/Library/Caches/com.apple.IntlDataCache.le.kbdx

/System/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/Generic RGB Profile.icc

/System/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/Generic Gray Profile.icc

/usr/share/icu/icudt51l.dat

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SyncedDefaults.framework/Versions/A/SyncedDefa ults

/private/var/folders/0b/f6hl79rd4_d3r5fmyr_4p8x80000gn/C/mds/mdsDirectory.db

/private/var/folders/0b/f6hl79rd4_d3r5fmyr_4p8x80000gn/C/com.apple.LaunchService s-044501.csstore

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreUI.framework/Versions/A/Resources/SArtFile .bin

/System/Library/Keyboard Layouts/AppleKeyboardLayouts.bundle/Contents/Resources/AppleKeyboardLayouts-L.d at

/System/Library/Fonts/Helvetica.dfont

/System/Library/Fonts/LucidaGrande.ttc

/System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/HIToolbox.fram ework/Versions/A/Resources/Extras2.rsrc

/System/Library/Frameworks/Security.framework/PlugIns/csparser.bundle/Contents/M acOS/csparser

/private/var/folders/0b/f6hl79rd4_d3r5fmyr_4p8x80000gn/C/com.apple.IconServices/ ISCacheTOC

/private/var/folders/0b/f6hl79rd4_d3r5fmyr_4p8x80000gn/C/com.apple.IconServices/ F8AA022C89522601261101AD16EE624F.iscachebmp

/private/var/folders/0b/f6hl79rd4_d3r5fmyr_4p8x80000gn/T/com.apple.IconServices/ 610F0F3FBA90542E417E9B7507825CEF.iscachebmp

/private/var/folders/0b/f6hl79rd4_d3r5fmyr_4p8x80000gn/C/com.apple.IconServices/ 6B68A1C93D8F7A03B3F15AB9D4019886.iscachebmp

/usr/lib/dyld

/private/var/db/dyld/dyld_shared_cache_x86_64

/dev/null

/dev/null

/dev/null

/System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/HIToolbox.fram ework/Versions/A/Resources/Extras2.rsrc

count=2, state=0x2

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Thank you in advance for your help in figuring out what's going on...

 

Message was edited by: towers1209

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013), OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Nov 4, 2013 9:45 PM

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