Finder Freezes

Hello jump:

Try trashing the preference file (com.apple.finder.plist) and restarting.

Barry

I have the same problem. Your solution works only briefly for me. A new finder preference file always takes the place of the old one.

My problem started last week when I installed Leopard, found it didn't play well with my iMac G5 and then reinstalled Tiger. Any thoughts?

This is the same nightmare I went through after upgrading to Leopard and then reverting to Tiger. Just found the solution here:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6300001&#6300001

Thanks. My problem seems to have fixed itself for now, but who knows if it will last past the next restart? One question - where do I find Leopard Cache Cleaner? Is this something I need to download?

Never mind, I found it. Thanks.

I am still having this very frustrating problem. I tried trashing the pref file, but it keeps coming back. I tried Leopard Cache Cleaner and that worked for a little while. For no apparent reason the problem started again and LCC can't seem to fix it.

Any suggestions?

Same problem here.

The only consistency for the finder freezing (not responding) seems to be random times I select a drive (or folder) from the side panel of a window. It has hung for a while in FCP several times, but catches up after a minute or two, but the full unresponsive freezing of Finder is inconsistent and the only way out is a shut down and restart. Sometimes on the restart it sticks on the grey screen with apple and no spinning dots of progress below it. I hear the hard drive click trying to get going but then nada. usually the third restart always works.

side note: I never tried to install Leopard (due to professional ap issues), so that doesn't quite fall under some of the above resemblances.

I have the same problem. I get the spinning ball when I try and open files in column view. Sometimes the file will open after a few minutes of the spinning ball. I have never installed Leopard so I'm perplexed. Also, my address book gets a spinning ball when I search for contact. I've tried trashing my finder pref file and restarting but that doesn't help. Do I need to reinstall Tiger? If anyone has any advice, please post.
Thanks in advance.