The application Finder.app can't be opened.

Oh and I don't have time machine on.

I am having the same problem. I am trying to copy large files from external hard drive. It seems like when I get over about 150 MB is when I have the problem. Like everyone else, this is frustrating because I have to restart so much. In addition, while I surmise the issue is with files over a certain size, I do not really know.

Thanks.

Dw

I just didn't plug an old lacie drive in again and did a reinstall. So far so good...No more problems. It must be a device issue. I have a passport drive plugged in and no problem with that. Also not using time machine yet..waiting to see what the solution will be first.

Hi, for your information: the erase&install I performed 3 weeks ago has definitely solved the problem. Not had a single blocked finder since. Before that I tried a reinstall several times without success.

Ok, well, I'm just reporting back on my own issue.

Reinstalling Snow Leopard over the existing SL, and then re-downloading the updates, worked for me. Everything is back to normal and I've been pushing the system a bit with no hangs or crashes...

david.

*I WOULD LIKE TO ADD SOMETHING :*

1st, I am having this issue
2nd, happens most often after I am _waking from sleep_
3rd, Finder will hang when doing some process : copying a file, transferring a file, itunes accessing my files - *all on my external drive* (WD Passport 500gb)
4th, I "Force Quit" and relaunch the finder.... it does nothing... it just hangs there, desktop disappears etc
5th, I try clicking on the Finder icon to Relaunch, and get the +"finder can't be opened -10810"+ message
6th, after some time... I just decided to UNPLUG MY USB DRIVE ... and instantly, the Finder desktop reappeared

I only read the first 3 pages and pages 11 and 12 ... it seems like there is a common trend of having this issue in association +with some external drive+... +can others confirm this?+

can anyone offer suggestions as how to approach this? thanks

_MY SYSTEM :_
Macbook Air 2.13, SSD (rev c)
Connected to LED Apple Cinema Display
External WD Passport 500gb attached
CLEAN Snow Leopard Install (with only Adobe Photoshop CS4 and MSoft Office 2008 installed)
Connection via Ethernet cable direct to Time Capsule (No Airport WiFi)
Time Macine NOT being used

+*--> Just to Clarify+ :*

*TRY UNPLUGGING YOUR EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE and see if the FINDER DESKTOP REAPPEARS*

this worked for me.
(this may be common knowledge for others... but it was not for me, hopefully my ignorance will help others. This does NOT solve the problem... it just breaks the "pain cycle" of Finder Freeze ! 😉

Alfred Abraham wrote:

*TRY UNPLUGGING YOUR EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE and see if the FINDER DESKTOP REAPPEARS*

Thank you for this advice.

Mine is a Western Digital, alleged 750 GB (GUID Partition Table, WD My Book Media, FireWire 800)

Under Leopard, I used to observe time machine hanging indefinitely a couple times a week, until I unplugged the drive. Never saw Finder problems.

Anyone know of anything useful at the Western Digital site? +(I admit that I read only a subset of this thread, apologies if that's already answered.)+

It started again..a couple of finder pop up windows. This started as soon as I ejected the mounted apple server. (I have 2 external hard drives that have not been unplugged and I continue not to use Time Machine.) Hopefully the apple crew is working on this issue and have .2 soon!

I would like to add again that this issue is not limited to external hard drive and/or devices - these same things continue to happen to me when reading cd's/dvd's - if the reading fails, Finder packs up for the night and goes home.

The underlying issue here is that Finder cannot be consistently Relaunched or Restarted in 10.6.1.

john henning wrote:

Alfred Abraham wrote:

*TRY UNPLUGGING YOUR EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE and see if the FINDER DESKTOP REAPPEARS*

Thank you for this advice.
+

Glad that worked for you, I am just realizing that this problem is a little more widespread, I am surprised I had not encountered it on Leopard. I do believe this is a fundamental finder *disk management issue* and affects BOTH External _as wells as_ Internal Hard Drives etc

I found another review of the problems on Cnet :

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10365239-263.html

what was particularly helpful was the comments by wraggi :

http://reviews.cnet.com/8618-13727_7-10365239.html?communityId=2123&targetCommun ityId=2123&blogId=263&messageId=8461367&tag=mncol;tback

+where he wrote :+

The Fix - In many cases one of the following:

go to into your user library and delete:

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.plist
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.QuarantineEvents

Then delete these files from the root level of your boot drive ...

/Library/Caches/com.apple.LaunchServices* (the * means anything)

Then reboot.

I have not tested this long enough to comment, hopefully this will be of some help to someone

*+PS: I DID NOT INSTALL the "Performance Update" because it caused havoc with my finder operations and freezing etc...so I did a CLEAN INSTALL OF SNOW LEOPARD..... can anyone comment whether or not they installed the "Performance Update" ?+*

Alf

I have also done a clean install of SL (erase/install) and have the "performance update" installed; so far no problems.

Another user with the same problem, but only experiencing it on 1 of 4 users on the computer.

Once Finder quits, I must power down the Mac manually by pressing and holding power. Not a good solution. I hope Apple is looking into a solution for this

I had the same error "10810" when clicking Finder BUT:

1. I didn't have attached any external drive, cd's, dvd's, pendrives or anything else. The only close thing would be the BOOTCAMP partition, but i wasn't even using this when it crashed.

2. It happened a few minutes after back from sleep

3. I had to force restart the computer and when started again, i look into the console and I found coreservicesd crashed. It seem that was the origin of the problem in my case. A full log of the crash and another person that apparently had the exact same problem is on this other topic: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10180126

The solution of "detaching the device" doesn't apply in this case because, as i said, i didn't have any device attached, besides the bootcamp partition...

raul.mt,
Were you connected to any network drives or did you have a VPN connection when you went to sleep? When I experienced the problem it was because I was connected through a VPN to a network share.
-joefitz