Seems to be happening several times a day now.
The Finder crashes and relaunches itself. The Finder icon is moved to the end of the Cmd-Tab thing. All the windows come back except for the Searches.
EtreCheck report is attached. TIA!
iMac 24″, macOS 12.6
Wait a minute. I'm doing a safe boot to re-index Spotlight? And a safe boot initiates a re-indexing of Spotlight?
No, a Safe Boot doesn't initiates a re-indexing of Spotlight, the purpose of a Safe Boot is to clear uppossibles causes of the Spotlight DB being corrupted.
Reinstalling should not touch your user Data at all.
I knew I should have bypassed this question especially since the reply was Directed to another more Senior Contributor
Good Luck any ways
I shoulda waited for you to reply!
Sorry for the goof. Thanks for the good wishes. I don't quite understand the "directed to another, more senior, contributor" bit. Hey, anyone who has a solution should please chime in!
This ship has sailed from OP question My “ Senior Contributor “
lol
OK, just asking, do you ever boot that Mac into a different OS?
2024-05-03 14:18:45 Finder Crash (8 times)
First occurrence: 2024-05-02 19:32:30
Most likely suspect...
Software Installs (past 60 days):
2024-05-02 Arctic (24.1.1)
Same here, I like to install new OS versions to an external drive & boot from that for testing first.
Still forgot to do the Spotlight re-index at bedtime. I'm usually to groggy to remember, I guess!
PerfPowerServices Crash...
Did we ever run Drive DX to possibly get a better view of Drive health…
Yes. Well, there are several external drives. DriveDx only works on some of them.
All indicators were green. All looked fine. That includes the internal "startup" drive.
I just checked them again. DriveDx only works on my internal drive and one of my external drives. All indicators are green.
Does any of the crashing happen if no external drives are connected?
Monterey Finder keeps crashing. All windows come back except search windows.
