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Kel Solaar Author

Level 1

5 points

The application Finder.app can't be opened.

I upgraded to Snow Leopard yesterday, and I'm having a lot of troubles, Finde, Time Machine and Disk Utility being the most annoying of them. I don't really know which one of them is making the others unstable / crash but well that's starting to be very irritating, now when I try to start the Finder I get this :

*The application Finder.app can't be opened.*
-10810

Restarting the Computer ( Mac Book Pro Uni ) usually fix that, but it's the second time that it's crashing a 220 go files package copy. I ended up doing it with rsync, the copy is still going on ( it will take a long time ) but I'm left with a Zombie Computer where I can't open a finder, and every Application that use it to open some file is crashing itself.

Is there a way to manually relaunch it ( I don't want to reboot, my computer is stuck backing up a lot of files ) ? I tried Sudo Launch the Finder from /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS with no luck, any help would be appreciated.

KS

Message was edited by: Kel Solaar

Mac OS X (10.6)

Posted on Aug 30, 2009 12:35 PM

696 replies

Nov 10, 2009 12:10 AM in response to WilsonLaidlaw

Spoke too soon. About 30 minutes after wake up, iMac locked up and access light was out on Datatank. Unplugged FW cable and all sprang to life again. I suppose more hours on the phone with the genii at Applecare is calling - ho humm. Not too clever of Apple not to have fixed this issue in fact, totally dumb!

Wilson

lsal

Level 1

19 points

Nov 10, 2009 12:30 AM in response to Kel Solaar

I'm having this same problem. The system becomes selectively unresponsive after about 30 seconds, and the Console fills with "coreservicesd process died." I just updated to 10.6.2 earlier today, so I am suspicious that that may be the cause of my problems.

The computer has so far only crashed when plugged into my external USB hard drive. Will test out some more things before reinstalling and hoping that works (it doesn't sound like reinstalling has fixed the problem for others, though).

Nov 10, 2009 1:30 AM in response to lsal

I purchased a new 27 inch iMac recently and was not experiencing this problem when using files in the Public folder and screen sharing with my old PowerBook G4.

I have today upgraded to 10.6.2 and now experience this problem constantly.

Any ideas anyone?

Nov 10, 2009 3:22 AM in response to Martin Pilbeam

wow, doesn't look like i'll be installing 10.6.2 anytime soon.. yikes!

Nov 10, 2009 3:36 AM in response to Kel Solaar

I am not installing the update until i know this issue is fixed and it doesn't sound like it. After the factory install, I have had to reinstall twice (in one week). Projects are taking twice as long to accomplish. This is frustrating.

Nov 10, 2009 4:49 AM in response to Kel Solaar

I'm amazed that after all the failed workarounds & frustration expressed in this thread that they didn't fix this stupid bug in 10.6.2. But they fixed the screenshot camera click! (!?!)

Apple, do you even read what your customers are saying?

Nov 10, 2009 5:51 AM in response to Kel Solaar

Help I have tons of work to do today and I am screwed with this problem.

This is the only screen I have open and the only app that works and i have a permanent -10810 error on the screen.

Nov 10, 2009 6:02 AM in response to obarkovic

I spoke to a very helpful level 2 tech today. Apple is aware of the issue and is working hard on it. There was nothing relating to it in the way of a cure in the 10.6.2 update. On Monday, when I get back from Italy, Apple are going to install data logging on my iMac, where I can reproduce the bad behaviour at will. There is no known cure at the moment. Not good news I am afraid.

Wilson

Nov 10, 2009 7:57 AM in response to WilsonLaidlaw

Good to know not to get my hopes up with 10.6.2 - also good to know at least someone somewhere knows about this Finder crashing issue and is maybe possbily slightly working on it. Thanks for the information.

Nov 10, 2009 8:11 AM in response to Kel Solaar

33 min and I am back to 10.6 works nice.

awado

Level 2

220 points

Nov 10, 2009 10:01 AM in response to Kel Solaar

Please, can anyone confirm that problems appear after using a disk image?

Nov 10, 2009 10:22 AM in response to awado

I never had any issues when mounting disk images, and I have at least two of them open every day.

But then again - there seem to be many different flavors of the problem. E.g. my MacPro does not crash every single time I use fileshares or external drives, but rather when I use them both within one uptime. It crashes for sure if I copy a some big files from a fileshare to an external drive.

Nov 10, 2009 5:37 PM in response to Kel Solaar

Hey all, well, I had reported earlier that re-installing SL seemed to have solved the problem. No such luck. It's back. And I saw it happen at my friend's house today when he plugged in an external drive. So, obviously the externals are the common thread here. Mine are eSATA on a Sonnet card. His was a Lacie firewire drive.

So frustrating.

APPLE!! Get it together!!

Dryvlyne

Level 1

10 points

Nov 10, 2009 6:42 PM in response to David Fernandes

No, external drives are not the only factor that causes this. I have had this happen when trying to empty a large number of files from Trash. It just sits there like it is getting ready to delete files, but then it never starts. I end up having to try and force quit/relaunch Finder. Of course it doesn't relaunch and instead I get the message that Finder.app can't be opened when I manually try to launch it.

Dryvlyne

Level 1

10 points

Nov 10, 2009 6:48 PM in response to Wendy Brooks

One possible alternative for people having this problem showing up when using external drives... you could try using Parallels or Fusion and another OS like Ubuntu or, err Windows, to access the drive and hopefully not crash Snow Leopard. Just a thought, but may be worth trying if you access an external drive for files on a regular basis.

The application Finder.app can't be opened.