I dusted off my Mac Mini (2018) and updated it to Monterey 12.6, but Finder keeps crashing in many circumstances like when trying to download a file, open a file located on an external hard drive, and if I choose to Relaunch it, it just shuts off and doesn't reopen; just blinks briefly as if it was active and then just shuts down.
I saw the plist suggestion, but it isn't in the Preferences folder.
Mac mini, macOS 10.14
Hello! Thanks for your answer!
...turns out the problem might have been Spotlight trying to index both my external hard drives which led to crashes. I put both on the Privacy list and that seems to have solved my Finder crashes for the time being.
Hello! Thanks for your answer!
...turns out the problem might have been Spotlight trying to index both my external hard drives which led to crashes. I put both on the Privacy list and that seems to have solved my Finder crashes for the time being.
Boot into the Recovery volume (boot with the Command + R keys held down - Intel Macs) or (How to Boot an M1 Mac into Recovery Mode), select Disk Utility and repair all available values. Then try to reboot normally.
If that fails reboot again in to the Recovery volume and reinstall the system. It won't affect the user data.
Finder keeps crashing and won't relaunch - Monterey
