Q: Finder freezes maverick must restart over and over
Since the upgrade to maverick my finder and every thing else will freeze and the whirligig wont stop turning .
I am at my wits end having to force restart every five minutes. I use this for work and I can't afford to waste so much time rebooting that takes 5 minutes.
The force quit window also freezes so nothing gets quit and have to restart.
I don't know if all the restarts is damaging but today I must have 100 times.
Does anyone know what to do to fix this? It should not happen. I had to post this using my phone .....
Mac mini, OS X Mavericks (10.9)
Posted on Nov 4, 2013 6:33 PM
I have found a solution !! And proof that there is some bug in this system which affects many people not just with google drive and other apps but with every aspect of how the mac should work but does not on Mavericks .
I had to fly back home from my business trip to restore my mac mini to how it was before. $400 extra dollars I would have saved had I not upgraded...
Moral to this story is, if your mac does not stop freezing, you must restore it to your previous system. That will fix it.
I restored mine and it has been running for 8 hours without one single freeze. My mail works again.
Try to save as much new work you may have collected since you backed up . Try to upload it to some cloud to save it.
Turn off your machine. Press Command and R at the same time and press the on button until you see the light come on, keep pressing command R until you see the grey apple then release and wait for the screen for the Disk utility.
Connect your device like a Time machine to your computer and select restore from Time machine.
It will take about 3 hours, but it is less time than what I spent trying to fix it with Mavericks.
Posted on Nov 18, 2013 8:14 PM
