The application Finder.app can't be opened.

In My case was the same, I couldn't open finder by any means but I solved it this way, I made a copy of Sistema/librería/LaunchAgents/com.apple.Finder.plist (My system is in spanish) and copied in HD/librería/Launch Agents/ from the user that had the problem (in my case 2 users) and that magically corrected everything and now everything is normal again...weird. Remember just to copy the archive, don´t move anythig. It worked for me and I expect I can help others...

sorry if this is a repost but don't wanna go back 20+ pages to check. just had this finder error happen to me, and google found this forum. =/

got finder to start up again by turning off the external hard drives connected to my mac. kinda brutal method and probably not a good idea if they are spinning, but you can quit your other programs that could potentially be writing/reading to minimize damage...

plugged my externals back in, and all is good again. =)

Several months ago I suffered this problem. After trying all the tips in these threads I thought I'd fixed it the hard way by reformatting my hard drive (it's a 6 month old Macbook), but it appears to be back again. Finder windows vanishing, unable to open hard drive window etc. All the same problems as before, but... there is no error message. A lot of people seem to relate the error to external drives, but I've never plugged any type of drive in to it.
I would give anything to be able to go back to Leopard and have a Mac that just works. There isn't anything in Snow Leopard I'd miss. I can't see there being a fix for this - it seems to be totally ignored despite all the different threads relating to it. I feel ill when I read the Mac media bleating about SN's stability and mocking Windows. I don't care about Apple building fancy I-pads - I just wish they'd fix "10810" so I could do something simple on my Mac like keep Finder running. Maybe I can get it replaced? It's still under warranty.

ipad - hehe - a big ipod that can't play flash or play my favorite movies in AVI. Laughable.

I share your pain about watching the commercials and hearing "macs just work". Again, laughable. I would go back to the free world of Ubuntu (linux), had I not paid a fortune for my Mac. Apple is right in one way - I never get a Blue Screen of Death (which I rarely had on WinXP), instead a get a Beach Ball of Death.

I think they're too busy with their marketing of the ipad to give a care about this forum or to take an active role in fixing problems - it's passive and just easier to sit back and wait for customers who are still under warranty to call in.

Hello Jon,
I sincerely recommend that you start some kind corrective process with Apple. If as you say, your MacBook is still under warranty - then you can bring up your question with Apple.

My apologies in advance for a long and opinionated post. I like practical, timely solutions.

Running snow leopard on a mac pro w/12 gb. Finder seems to hang often if I try to 'open with' from the file menu. I can restart from the command line. Going back to the console when Finder is hung, I see:
2010-02-12 19:56:57.382 Finder[1762:903] NSOpenGLAutoscaleBounds=NO
2010-02-12 20:15:01.572 Finder[1762:be43] Error loading /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin/Contents/MacOS/DVCPROHDAudio: dlopen(/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin/Contents/MacOS/DVCPROHD Audio, 262): no suitable image found. Did find:
/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin/Contents/MacOS/DVCPROHDAudio: no matching architecture in universal wrapper
2010-02-12 20:15:01.572 Finder[1762:be43] Cannot find function pointer NewPlugIn for factory C5A4CE5B-0BB8-11D8-9D75-0003939615B6 in CFBundle/CFPlugIn 0x117d173c0 </Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin> (bundle, not loaded)
2010-02-12 20:15:19.499 Finder[1762:903] --ImageKit Error: updateGLTextureWithBitmapData: glPixelStorei returned an error : 502 (subSize=[256.000000,144.000000] offset [0.000000,432.000000] glID:6, context:0x11ab20500)


Which seems to indicate Finder is getting really complex! 🙂 its looking for every conceivable application for the file type I'm trying to open. Which is, by the way, a Canon 5D M2 video H.264 file.

I can work around this by dropping the file onto the application I wish to start, but the menu is handy.

@Interstellar love + iPad. I have to say, I'm very impressed. Of course, I am since, I can use one. Many others can't. So, understandably they are still looking for Windows 7, to rock their Flash world. Me? Flash is requested for downloads so often because its the source of the world most annoying advertising anywhere. Flash makes up 95% advertisements and 5% useful video.

I like Adobe fine, but so 2002. Photoshop is ultra bloated, Flash is more like PS, then PS like Macromedia's Flash, and on and on. I don't want to be locked into an Adobe migration plan that takes 5 years to go anywhere. If someone is out there still programming Flash, they are living in the past. Remember waiting for PS to be Intel processor native? took years. jazuz. Photoshop is still dragging along code base from Usenet FREEware circa 1989. Come on, its 1999 already.. ahm I mean 2009 already. Flash on hosted sites doesn't take but a few moments to replace with standards.

I understand the amount of blood spent by folks learning Flash. ouch. It was soo cool 14 years ago.

but I digress.

$500, it makes one **** of a keyboard, GPS/internet WiFi browser, preview host, music player, with a giant screen, game machine, microphone. .yea, I'll buy one or maybe two. Smokin deal. truely. I just hope everyone keeps ******** and not buying for 90 more days so I can actually buy and get one... 🙂 I think my tongue is stuck to my shirt.

Yea, they are bad bad bad. Hold off buying one till I get one or two. thanks.

Alex,

I think you may be able to help your particular issue by resetting launch services. The easiest way to do this is with the free and excellent utility onyx from titanium free.

I am getting really ticked off with this issue. To date, this has only affected my iMac but yesterday, it attacked my MacBook Pro. Even "sudo killall finder dock" or "/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder &" in Terminal would not release the error and in the end I had to unplug the external HD, which I hate doing.

If 10.6.3 does not fix this issue, I shall go ballistic.

Wilson

WIlson et al,

I of course am still having the problem. I lost ocnfidence in Apple support to properly address this issue.

Is there any value, in your opinion, in re-opening the service claim - and making the techs jump through hoops ?

Alf

ps: I know we are "only" 25 pages long.... so this is "probably" not a "real" problem (sarcasm in quotes)

Alf,

The rumour mill says that 10.6.3 may be released next Wednesday, so I shall wait to see if this is a "cure all". I am not too optimistic as there seems to be like about any update to the Cocoa or Carbon APi's in Finder, which is where many of us feel the problem lies (32/64 bit clash). They do mention a "file sync" fix which may the problem. It is a huge update running currently at over 600MB so there is obviously a lot in there. If 10810 is still an issue, I will raise yet another ticket (my 4th).

Wilson

Wilson,

thanks for the feedback. I will follow suit and open another ticket as well if 10.6.3 doesnt address the issue.

I highly recommend others viewing this thread to "subscribe" to it so they can receive emails whenever someone posts here.

Thanks.

Alf

feedback here. turning off the spotlight doesn't work for me, still beach ball and then crash.

[quote] jitterysquid, Posted: Jan 31, 2010 9:07 AM:
For those that are still having problems, I have achieved a level of stability by simply turning off spotlight indexing entirely: sudo mdutil -i off -a
You will lose spotlight abilities until the actual problem gets fixed....[/quote]

I get the error "The application Finder.app can't be opened. -10810

Finder will not open. I can not do anything other than reboot to fix it.

There is a 'work around' on this thread....somewhere, that at least allow you to launch Finder again...it is a terminal command that you run and it re launches Finder.

I put it in a Automator action but you can just paste this into a Terminal window

/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder &

I believe this error occurs after you put your system to sleep (either by closing a laptop, or by exceeding an amount of idle time specified in the 'Energy Saver Control Panel'). I have found that changing my settings to 'Never Sleep' in the Energy Saver Control Panel, and never closing the laptop lid without shutting down first, prevents this issue from re-occurring. Granted this is just a workaround, but it seems to alleviate the problem.

this terminal solution works partially as when I type in the command, finder window shows up, however, I have to keep that terminal alive i.e. if I close that terminal instance, the finder is gone again which means finder is running under that terminal instance. But this is a nice workaround if you can't reboot the machine in the middle of some running tasks.