The application Finder.app can't be opened.

joefitz,

No that I remember. VPN is completely discarded. I have folders shared through samba from a Windows machine but I think before the Macbook sleep nothing was mounted besides the bootcamp partition (which is always mounted).

Raul.

I have the same problem - except that this time it is with my iPod Touch's GoodReader.

I think it is time to stop blaming third parties and look at the common factor - Mac OSX. This is an OS bug.

Glad someone else is realizing it's not necessarily linked to hardware - happens for me on a Macbook with nothing plugged into it, usb/bluetooth/wireless..

If the issue is related to hardware mounted does NOT mean that is a hardware issue anyway. It could still be software issue if that is the cause.

But, as I said, I think it isn't only because of mounted drives... i think I hadn't any when this happened to me.

Regards.

I cannot access Finder and have the 10810 advisory warning. I simply cleaned out the trash overnight. Nothing else switched on, my TC was connected but unpowered.
I was in the process of trying to get my Sony eReader to work via the Sony Library, which has been dead since loading Snow Leopard.
I'm going back to leopard until SL problems are resolved. This problem, and similar others, are the reason I binned Widows.

I just experienced this problem for the first time, searched for a solution on the Discussions, and found this: 13 pages already, and no solution!

In my case I selected all mp3 files on a CD, then tried to paste them into a folder on an external SAMBA-connected drive. Finder immediately began showing the spinning beachball of death, and never got to the point of displaying the Now Copying dialog. I quit every application, tried to restart Finder (got that error), and yet found no Finder process to kill, either. I then tried to shut down. My desktop disappeared, and all icons and the dock, but my iMac didn't shut down. After 5 minutes I had to use the power button to shut it off.

Been experiencing this issue too for awhile now. Finally got annoyed and decided to search for a solution and came upon this thread. It happens to me when I try to delete a large amount of files from Trash. It just sits there showing me how many files it is going to delete, but never does anything. I then have to try and force quit Finder, but of course it never relaunches and I get the error message described when I try to click on the Finder icon in the dock.

This is a highly annoying issue and if I were Apple I'd start thinking twice about mocking Windows for stability problems because they've not been much better IMO.

Well the good news is that Apple is apparently aware of the issue and is working to address it. I just found this information from a Cnet.com article posted on 11/2...

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At this point, it still looks like people are having this issue and no official fix has been released from Apple. That being said, Mac OS X 10.6.2 has seen several beta releases to developers and should be available for download soon. To further the hopes of users that have been faced with this issue, ASD user "alleksu" posted this response from Apple about a filed bug for this problem:

"This is a follow up to Bug ID# 7256664. After further investigation it has been determined that this is a known issue, which is currently being investigated by engineering. This issue has been filed in our bug database under the original Bug ID# 7152276. The original bug number being used to track this duplicate issue can be found in the State column, in this format: Duplicate/OrigBug#."
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Thanks for posting that article...

I was just about to post a link to Apple's feedback page ( http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html), and encourage everyone here to post their comments there. I believe Apple employees monitor these forums to some extent, but there is definitely no substitute for direct feedback via that link.

Let's hope we see 10.6.2 any day now, and that it fixes the problem!!

*FEEDBACK LETTER FEEDBACK LETTER FEEDBACK LETTER FEEDBACK LETTER*

+Hi, I sent the following *feedback letter* to Apple... I want to encourage you to WRITE YOUR OWN, COPY MINE, or EDIT MINE and SEND A REPORT _IMMEDIATELY !_+

There is no reason to delay !

-Alf
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Hello,

I am having what is becoming known as a Snow Leopard Freeze Up with error '-10810' and locking out the ability ro access my external hard drive or the Finder

I cant imagine this is a problem NOT known to you by now.... it has been discussed in various places over the net, including apple's own discussion forums : (LINK: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2135129&start=0&tstart=0 ) which has over 20,600 views ! and over 188 replies !.... this canNOT be an isolated problem, and indicates a VERY SERIOUS FUNDAMENTAL FLAW with Snow Leopard !



MY SYSTEM :
Apple Macbook Air 2.13 with SSD Mid 2009 model. With a CLEAN (Erase and Install) Install of Snow Leopard 10.6.2

I usually have my apple LED cinema display attached to the MBA, with ONLY the following attached to the built in ACD USB Hub: 1)Ethernet cable (going to Time Capsule),
2)MBA Superdrive, and
3)Western Digital Passport external HD (500gb).

Time Capsule is my main base station, Time Machine is NOT active.

The problem occurs regardless of whether WiFi is turned on or off (from my experience)

The problem is inconsistent, but seems to occur MOST FREQUENTLY upon awaking from sleep. But still occurs during regular computer use The hard drive seems inaccessible (when copying, deleting, viewing folders on the external drive), Finder freezes, and the only solution is to either :
a) Hard Reset / Manual Power down
b) Disconnect the USB Hard Drive (which magically springs everything back to life)


PLEASE NOTE:
1. "Force Quitting" the finder results in error "-10810" upon trying to open the application by clicking on the finder icon in the dock
2. The Processors do not overheat or speed up... CPU usage stays at a normal below 30% level (as I recall)
3. Disk Utility does 'not respond' during this Finder freeze - necessitating a force quit.
4. Attempting to take a snap shot (via Preview) and then trying to save it (on the internal hard drive) - results in a freeze / not responding issue BEFORE even getting the "Save As..." Dialog !


The issue is simply unbearable. Please tell me you are working on a fix.

Please address this problem ASAP and acknowledge that it is being addressed !

Thank You,


*FEEDBACK LETTER FEEDBACK LETTER FEEDBACK LETTER FEEDBACK LETTER*

As others have already noticed, mounting drives and disk images has irritated my Mac Pro, too. Yesterday I tried to narrow it down by ssh'ing on the Mac Pro with my MacBook. After the spinning color wheel appeared I tried to reboot via Apple menu resulting in a endless hang. Killing the loginwindow process got me one step closer to the shutdown: Finder disappeared and the blue screen with the black progress wheel came up. The results of the top command were the following:

1507 top
1407 sh
1406 su
1402 bash
1401 sshd
1398 sshd
1395 umount
1394 umount
154 cvmsServ
94 coreservices
64 dynamic_page
62 fseventsd
31 securityd
14 diskarbitrat
13 syslogd
11 DirectorySer
1 launchd
0 kernel_task

None of them had a high cpu load. But one of them must have blocked the system from going down. The only chance to do a reboot was to send a "reboot -q".

Apple released 10.6.2 today. Downloading now. I don't see any specific mention of Finder issues being resolved unless it is covered under the following...

Network file systems fixes provided for:

* compatibility with third-party AFP servers
* file synchronization for portable home directories

Upgraded to 10.6.2. It doesn't fix the Finder issue for us. When we boot our new (late 2009) iMac (that came with 10.6.1 preinstalled) via an external drive running 10.5.8, all works well. We're seriously considering erasing the main drive and downgrading our new iMac to 10.5.8 permanently (or at least until there is a 10.6.x upgrade that is guaranteed to solve this issue).

Nope. Just installed 10.6.2 and the problem is still there and maybe even a bit worse.

So far so good for me with 10.6.2. Installed it last night with only a strange message about a missing or unlocatable .kext file on my iMac. MBP no issues at all. Attached my Freecom Datatank RAID external hard drive to my iMac. Both went to sleep properly and woke up fine this morning. Both SL machines seem to be running quicker with only brief appearances of SBOD (spinning beachball of death), which had been my constant companion. So far it looks as if for me at least, 10.6.2 is making SL live up to the marketing hype that accompanied its release. It says to me that as I posted previously, SL was released prematurely, probably to rub Microsoft's face in the dirt. Not a clever move from Apple - it makes them look greedy and incompetent.

Wilson