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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

Dec 4, 2009 5:04 PM in response to Proggie

Should Journaling be enabled on external drives as well?

Because I just checked, and Journaling _IS NOT_ enabled on my external (WD Passport) Drive.

And, under DISK UTILITY, I am NOT able to "Enable Journaling"

Any help here?

Dec 4, 2009 5:05 PM in response to Alfred Abraham

JUST WANTED TO NOTE: this topic has been viewed over 31,000 times !

So... probably only a "small" problem "not experienced" by many users.

(sarcasm implied)

Proggie

Level 4

1,328 points

Dec 4, 2009 5:18 PM in response to Alfred Abraham

nope it isn't required for external drives. It's just an option of the HPFS+ file system. External drives can be formatted with any supported file system including ones that aren't journaled.

Dec 4, 2009 5:25 PM in response to Proggie

Proggie... thx for the quick reply.

So the fact that the external drive is not journaled then, *+would not+,* in your opinion, be a contributing factor for the Finder to "Freak Out" ?

Proggie

Level 4

1,328 points

Dec 4, 2009 5:40 PM in response to Alfred Abraham

in my opinion it shouldn't be a factor. But I suppose there could be some strange bug that it becomes a factor. But I doubt it since the problem I had was with a USB thumbdrive and a network drive, neither of which was HFS+ (so couldn't have journaling turned on). So it must be some other issue.

Dec 4, 2009 5:47 PM in response to Proggie

thx.

Dec 8, 2009 7:04 PM in response to Kel Solaar

My first post, from my first Mac (iMac bought in late October).
I'm having this problem too. Hard shut-downs almost daily.
Tried de-indexing external hard drive, but no luck.
Computer freezes (or becomes unresponsive) at random times, usually either when waking from sleep or when an app is launched (just a minute ago it was the Opera browser).

I called tech support here in Japan. They were helpful and suggested disk recovery (hold down shift and press power button) and resetting PRAM (power on, then immediately press command-option-p-r). We'll see if that helps.

Proggie

Level 4

1,328 points

Dec 8, 2009 7:18 PM in response to koobitokyo

Welcome to the world of mac. It's unclear from your post if you are experiencing exactly the same issue or a different freezing issue. Random freezes or crashes can often be attributed to bad RAM or booting drive. In your case I would dry testing your RAM. You can download a util like memtest and try it out. This once found faulty memory on one of my laptops.
If you ARE experiencing this finder error and not random freezing then ignore my reply 🙂

Dec 9, 2009 4:42 AM in response to Alfred Abraham

I've had this issue sporadically since installing SL.

I have a pair of drives shared over SMB. Sometimes these will hang for no apparent reason - trying to eject them fails (no it's not the drives/server, I have a Windows media PC that continues to access the drives fine when this happens). If I try to restart Finder to try to remedy the situation, I get the dreaded -10810 error and Finder fails to restart.

On a personal note - having recently switched to a Mac,this issue is a real downer. Most annoying is the lack of any official information on this issue - this thread seems to be the most comprehensive source of information I can find.

Dec 9, 2009 4:53 AM in response to RadioSnow

I know it is very frustrating for all of us and does sound like "OSTRICH - HEAD -SAND" at Cupertino. However I do know this issue is being worked on. Sadly it would appear, with zero success to date. I think that this issue does need to come a bit higher up Apple's priority list. When the level 2 techs say "oh yes we are getting 10810 too" and then suggest that you set up a number of non-removeable partitions on your hard drive to try various solutions, it does not give you a lot of faith. I see that there is yet another Airport update out today. Sure I have had one or two problems but nothing that cannot be worked round by turning Airport off and on again. I could live with it. The finder crashing I cannot live with.

Wilson

macgetme

Level 1

0 points

Dec 9, 2009 5:36 AM in response to Kel Solaar

I have the same problem on a MacBook(mid 2007) and on a iMac(late2007). It often happens when I work with files on the external network hard-drive lacie. The message appeared last time after i copied a folder with 11 pics to my lacie. Only a restart helped to use the finder again. Also the whole menubar cannot be seen. Over spotlight I can start all my other applications.

Hope we get a solution on this problem soon.
Bye

bender75

Level 1

0 points

Dec 9, 2009 2:07 PM in response to macgetme

I had the same Problem here on my Mac Pro running Snow Leopard 10.6.2. I use an Ubtunu-PC with both samba and apple talk enabled as fileserver. Had to completely power down. This realy feels like the early windows years.:/

I hope they fix it soon....

Message was edited by: bender75

Dec 10, 2009 4:57 PM in response to bender75

I guess the only recourse is to phone it into Apple Care to try to raise the priority of this issue. 😟
I'll be doing that next time it happens.

bender75 wrote:
This realy feels like the early windows years.:/

Ouch.

Dec 11, 2009 8:45 PM in response to RadioSnow

I'm having this problem was well.

It seems like for a lot of you it happens when you are doing something like copying or deleting files.
It just happened to me for the first time (SL has given me other problems though) and I was doing nothing of the sort...

is this true for anyone else? I believe I was just typing on the internet, got an IM tried to type in there, and that's when it happened.

macnoel

Level 4

2,624 points

Dec 12, 2009 2:24 AM in response to Kel Solaar

Three months plus without a solution?!

For what it's worth, I searched error 10810 and found this blog post from 2006.
The terminal command seems like it would work for this Finder launch refusal bug. Rather, it would cause interruption of the loop which seems to prevent Finder from launching. Whether the "behavior" would permanently cease is unknown.

<http://www.macgeekery.com/tips/troubleshooting/when you_cant_start_programs_because_of_a_10810error>

The application Finder.app can't be opened.