Q: Mavericks Finder keeps crashing!

Looks like Google has fixed the problem as of Nov 5. You need to get Google Drive updated if isn't already or restart Google Drive: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/drive/report-a-problem/k qdqmoMWtk8

Thought it was totally fixed, but did get a bunch of crashes early this morning while showering, but the loop stopped before I noticed and seemed to be fine. So I went in and deleted all files in the Library/LaunchAgents, Library/LaunchDaemons and Library/StartupItems folders.

 

So far everything seems fine.

Is it safe to remove all those? And do you mean in User Library or System Library?

I am one of those that does not have Google Drive so most of these suggestions are not working for me.

Finder is unusable!!!!!!!!!!! it crashes every 5 seconds, is unbearable. OS X ML, where are you???????? How can we solve this problem?

Disable "show file sync status icons..." for google drive app solve this problem for me.

https://support.filetransporter.com/article/AA-00398

I find that subject.maybe same problem?

I just had this start happening to me on a Late 2013 15" Retina MBP, the finder wouldn't open new windows or tabs. The only way to open a finder window was from terminal using the "open ." command. I resolved it by going to the /User/Library/Preferences/ directory and removing the com.apple.finder.plist file entirely and then restarting the system. Prior to that I'd tried the disk repair utility, deleting the plist file and relaunching the finder from the force quit menu all to no avail. The delete of the plist file followed by an immediate restart solved the issue.

This solution just worked for me too! :-) Thank you!

jdhovland appears to have basically the right solution, at least for those who don't have Google drive installed.

I, too, had completed a hierarchy of alternative solutions without success, but when I removed the plist and rebooted, that seems to have eliminated the problem of hangs. However, he's moving the system plist. I think one only has to move the specific user's plist.

Option+Go to the Library and navigate to the preferences directory ("folder"); drag com.apple.finder.plist to the desktop (for safe keeping) and then restart.

Alternatively, if the Finder is so unstable you can't use it, use Terminal and type

==> mv /User/[USERSHORTNAME]/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist /User/[USERSHORTNAME]/Desktop/.

Then restart.

If everything is then O.K., one can discard the (apparently corrupted) plist.

The user will lose special settings associated with the Finder (e.g., customizations for the Finder toolbar). Those will have to be recreated.

I'm running 10.9 and just started getting this issue.  It really just came out of the blue, however, I followed the directions concerning Google Drive and that seems to have cleared it up.

I closed Google drive so it was the problem. I have a problem with Googel drive so I will just deinstall it.

Hello,

I had exactly the same problem where I could not use the Finder any more because of multiple crashes. When I look into the crash reports in /Users/YOURNAME/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/ where YOURNAME is your user name, I found multiple crash related to a Synology plugin. So I uninstall Synology Cloud Station and everything went back to normal. To do so, I use AppCleaner. It's weird to see that 2 softwares doing the same thing (sharing files in the cloud) managed to crash the Finder in the same way.

Here is part of Finder crash file:

Process:               Finder [1586]

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

Identifier:            com.apple.finder

Version:               10.10.1 (10.10.1)

Build Info:            Finder_FE-932001003000000~1

Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)

Parent Process:        ??? [1]

Responsible:           Finder [1586]

User ID:               501

PlugIn Path:             /Users/USER/*/SynoMacIconOverlay.bundle/Contents/MacOS/SynoMacIconOverlay

PlugIn Identifier:       synology.SynoMacIconOverlay

PlugIn Version:          1.0 (1)

OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.10.1 (14B25)

Exception Type:        EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)

Exception Codes:       KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x00007fff5e637ff8

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

0   synology.SynoMacIconOverlay   0x0000000106e45b24 -[NSObject(IconOverlay) SynoDrawRect:] + 65

1   synology.SynoMacIconOverlay   0x0000000106e45b27 -[NSObject(IconOverlay) SynoDrawRect:] + 68

Re-installed the OS yesterday, deleted a few files today, scratched my head, googled some more. Finally I read the part about Google Drive and so far it's been a few minutes and Finder hasn't crashed.

Why is it normally always just a tick in a bloody box that causes so many problems? Bit like parliamentary elections

Got the same here! Constant crashing of the Finder. After I quit Google Drive, it's all OK.

Usually if this happens, below are my steps.

Command + Option + Esc.

Then select Finder

Then Relaunch.

With older macs, it might be a memory problem. Run etrecheck, it'll tell you if that's so.