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Unable to delete app that has broken the Finder

I messed up today and installed an old version of Safari (10.x) onto my MacBook Pro running Mohave. The Finder crashes immediately and won't launch.

With no Finder, I tried using Terminal to delete Safari files (as root) but all of those files still return an "Operation not permitted" error.

Here's the error in the Problem report:

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread: Unknown

Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)

Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000

Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Termination Reason: DYLD, [0x4] Symbol missing

Dyld Error Message:

symbol '_OBJC_CLASS_$__SFSharablePasswordReceiver' not found, expected in '/System/Library/Frameworks/SafariServices.framework/Versions/A/SafariServices', needed by '/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder'

Any thoughts on what else I can try?

MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.14

Posted on Jul 19, 2019 7:58 PM

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LD150

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Posted on Jul 20, 2019 10:05 AM

You are shifting essential and interdependent components

You will need to reinstall Mojave.

either

Restore entire disk from your latest time machine backup.

Backup to at least two disks one of which should be TM then restore mojave from the web

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904

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