Q: OS X Mavericks: Finder closes and restarts

Anita, are you clicking on the menu bar icon, upper right part of your screen? It's the left one in my example picture.

You wouldn't reach the Preferences when you click on a Google Drive icon in a finder window.

Yes, it's GD.

According to http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/drive/report-a-problem/kq dqmoMWtk8 that Google forum, Apple has admitted to SOMEONE that they know about the problem and that it's related to an iBooks update.

I closed GD as suggested and the annoying problem instantly stopped.

However when I tried to start GD again in order to uncheck "Show file sync status icons and right click menu" I got this error message:

Just to add to the ongoing discussion.

Disabling "show sync file status" option in the Google Drive Preferences panel solved the problem for me. GD is running now and Finder is back to normal.

Cheers!

Awesome, I noticed the GD errors in Console but it looked like more of an error, not a crash - but with the app now closed, all is fine!  Dropbox working fine here for me, and I use that 1000x more than GD anyway... whew!! 

GREAT tip...GD Share File Lync Status and unchecking this box solved the issue and I am no longer experiencing two finger switch command every 30 secs.

THANK YOU!

This Google Drive fix is all well and good for those of you who use it......HOWEVER, I don't use it and do not have it. I upgraded to Mavericks on an IMAC I use for my business. It never was able to restart and get into the finder to be able to change any settings! It just went into a restart/Stop cycle of death and I had to use a backup of the system I had on time machine just before I upgraded. I will not even try to go back to this upgrade because I cannot afford to dick aroud with my business info. Thanks Apple!

Haha, thats what people get for not allowing operating systems to slowly become stable and rush out to get the new and shiny thing, google drive isnt supported in mavericks (officially) (see: https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2375082?hl=en&ref_topic=2463299)

I first experienced it when i uninstalled my XtraFinder.

Now I'm back with XtraFider and everything works fine!

http://www.trankynam.com/xtrafinder

@yavnehtechsupport: again, this emphasizes that people who blame Apple here, are wrong. Not to defend Apple, but just to have a correct view on the situation

Google should have had plenty of time to have their Google Drive app ready for Mavericks, but they didn't. So we should all point at Google, not Apple nor Mavericks. Meanwhile, use the workaround and Google Drive seems to be working fine, for the time being. 

And how do you explain that it WAS working on Mavericks and suddenly isn't now?  It was working FINE for 2 weeks, until last night.  Unless Google updated the app without assigning a new version number, NOTHING changed on the Drive side.

For those bashing Google, it was posted in a topic on their discussion forum for Drive that the team is aware of the issue and is assessing resolutions.  Less than 24 hours after it's reported they're working on a fix.

Thanks alot man! seems to work fine now!

@halluxML: Funny enough, I had no software updates whatsoever overnight. But my Google Drive was crashing Finder all over sudden since this morning. Google has a name in changing specs, APIs etc without notice so it wouldn't surprise me if Google changed something overnight relating to Google Drive, causing dependent apps to show unexpected behaviour.

In the past, I had more similar issues with Google, like Tasks no longer syncing with OS X and iOS, calendar invites no longer possible in iCal and iOS. These came by surprise and were also fixed later, as unexpected as the errors appeared.

Google has posted a fix.  Close and restart your Google Drive app and it should resolve.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/drive/kqdqmoMWtk8/0iuozNmuSb8J