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Opening "Preferences" folder will crash the Finder every time!

On my 24" iMac with OSX 10.6.5, opening User's "Preferences" folder will crash the Snow Leopard Finder every time! This will happen even if I try to open a saved "Preferences" folder on an external drive.

On the brand-new 27" iMac also with OSX 10.6.5, the same thing will happen, but less frequently.

Is there way around this annoying problem???

Thanks for the help!

27" and 24" iMac (Snow Leopard/XP) and 20" Cinema Display, Mac OS X (10.6.5), Since 84 Mac 128K and IBM PC

Posted on Dec 27, 2010 2:56 PM

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Dec 27, 2010 5:59 PM in response to Király

Problem solved thanks to a tip on the internet:

Fetch 4.0.3 preference files were causing the Snow Leopard Finder to crash constantly. Removing the files from both iMacs and the problem went away immediately.

Since I couldn't open the Snow Leopard folder containing the Fetch prefs files long enough to remove them, I used a MacBook, running Leopard to remove the files through the network.

Opening "Preferences" folder will crash the Finder every time!

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