-10810 Application "Finder.app" cannot start

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-10810 Application "Finder.app" cannot start

Every now and then, the finder stalls and can't be started again. Mostly while creating files from Adobe Illustrator to a VMWare machine. Sometimes, unplugging the external volume which I use for Time Machine, helps, sometimes not. This is absolutely maddening!

MacPro, Macbook, Mac OS X (10.6.4), ...all sorts of electronic and biologic junk

Posted on Sep 7, 2010 9:31 AM

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Kate Derie

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Sep 7, 2010 11:21 AM in response to Mathias Dubois

I have the same problem -- not doing anything in particular. Restart machine, works ok, then Finder crashes again and won't restart. Same error code. Nothing in Apple Support. Installed new iTunes a couple days ago -- could that be it?

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Fortuny

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Sep 8, 2010 6:12 AM in response to Mathias Dubois

Hi all,

have a look here http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10365239-263.html for possible solutions.

Hope it helps

Stefan

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Answer 3

Sep 8, 2010 5:18 PM in response to Kate Derie

Yes, right, I forgot to mention that I often have iTunes running in the background while working. Until I installed iTunes 10, the problem was solved if I unmounted the external drive I use for Time Machine backups. Now, possibly since I installed iTunes 10, unplugging the external drive doesn't help anymore. Only restarting the machine does.

Extremely annoying!

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Sep 9, 2010 7:24 AM in response to Fortuny

Thanks. I will work my way through these solutions.

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Answer 5

Sep 11, 2010 1:47 PM in response to Mathias Dubois

Thanks to the MacFixit link I found another thread on this question. It is extremely long but hopefully this will get you to the last page:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2135129&start=495&tstart=0

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