Crashing Finder From Search

It may be helpful you post the Etrecheck report.

I am away from my mac for a few hours; I will test by searching for cube, but I am willing to bet that it will NOT crash.

It is common for macs of the same person or organization to exhibit similar symptoms, which may lead people to think it’s a bug. When the issue cannot be replicated by most, it points to some commonality between the software installed on those machines. Often people just migrate everything from the old mac and that brings along whatever was causing the problem in the first place.

Did you try the same search on a new user account on the same mac? Please test. Does it also crash? This will help determine if the problem is only with the user or overall.

I tend to agree with my colleague @ Luis Sequeira1 assessment

Owl-53 wrote:

I tend to agree with my colleague @ Luis Sequeira1 assessment

Tried typing .cube in a Finder window

But guess what... I have to somehow disagree with myself!

I tried a search for cube and Finder immediately crashes, just as it does for the OP!

Searching for .cube also makes Finder crash.

But other searches are ok, for example, searching for a.cube does not crash.

Luis Sequeira1 wrote:

I tend to agree with my colleague @ Luis Sequeira1 assessment

Owl-53 wrote:

I tend to agree with my colleague @ Luis Sequeira1 assessment

Tried typing .cube in a Finder window

But guess what... I have to somehow disagree with myself!

I tried a search for cube and Finder immediately crashes, just as it does for the OP!

Searching for .cube also makes Finder crash.

But other searches are ok, for example, searching for a.cube does not crash.

Interesting 👍

Just tried in a Finder window cube without the leading . ( dot )

And so the mystery begins

SWMIL wrote:

This is an issue that I've spent 83 minutes on 2 calls over the last 2 days with Apple Support. I have a Mac Mini M2 Pro with 32 gb of ram & running 26.1.

I recently got some LUTs & I wanted to see where they go. The extension for LUTs is .cube so I typed that in the search bar on a finder window. When I typed the last letter "e" my finder windows disappeared for a moment.

Tried it again without the . and the same thing happened. I didn't get any popup saying the finder crashed. I contacted Apple Support &

— We restarted in Safe Mode & the Finder crashed when cube was typed in search.

—We reinstalled the OS & reindexed overnight. Today, the same thing happened.

I used EtreCheckPro2 & sure enough it said the Finder had crashed. I took a screenshot sent it to Apple Support & after a long phone call it was escalated. Hopefully they'll figure it out. They've been awesome.

Now for the kicker: I typed in cube in the finder window of my 2018 MacBook Air with 14.8.2 & the Finder crashed, too. So, type cube in your search & let me know if it happens to you.

do you say what app you are using...Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro, and DaVinci Resolve....

Apply LUTs in Final Cut Pro for Mac - Apple Support

FWIW, I have Final Cut Pro as well, on both macs where I tested (no Color Finale, though). I will test on my wife’s and my daughter’s macs when I get the chance, to see if it also happens there. I don’t see how FCP would cause this, I think it must be something else.

I tend to agree with my colleague @ Luis Sequeira1 assessment

Tried typing .cube in a Finder window

Also tried .cube in Spotlight ( 2nd image )

Tested using a M4 Desktop with Tahoe 26.1

2nd image

I take it back... I can also reproduce the problem.

As a workaround, we can search for file extension, like this:

Luis Sequeira1 wrote:

I tried a search for cube and Finder immediately crashes, just as it does for the OP!

Hmmm… weird. Tried cube and .cube.