Finder error 10810 and Disk Utility Corruption

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hunt2013 Author

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Finder error 10810 and Disk Utility Corruption

I keep getting finder error 10810 whenever I try to open it. I googled and it said to restart so I did. Didn't help. I found another site that says to verify and repair disk in disk utility. Well I tried that and it said The volume Macintosh HD was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.

Then it says in a drop down box. Disk Utility stopped verifying “Macintosh HD. This disk needs to be repaired. Start up your computer with another disk (such as your Mac OS X installation disc), and then use Disk Utility to repair this disk.

Do I do what it says or try something else?

iPhone 4, iOS 4, iMac 27" i5 MBP 15" i7 -2011- iPad1 16GB wifi

Posted on May 14, 2011 1:43 PM

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Answer 1

Kappy

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May 14, 2011 1:48 PM in response to hunt2013

See this article: Finder Error -10810 in Snow Leopard causing problems. The error usually has something to do with using USB drives. A restart usually fixes it for a while.

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hunt2013 Author

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May 14, 2011 1:57 PM in response to Kappy

I don't have any USB drives in the computer so I wouldn't think this would be the case. I had this same thing happen on my iMac when I first got it but it stopped somehow. Should I do the disk restore thing?

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Kappy

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May 14, 2011 2:03 PM in response to hunt2013

Try this first:

Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions

Boot from your Snow Leopard Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer.

If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.

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hunt2013 Author

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May 14, 2011 2:49 PM in response to Kappy

Okay smart status is verified. And it repaired and I verified again and said everything was ok. I then did the permissions and it ran a whole list of things then I hit repair and it said it repaired but each time I verified it said the same things were wrong and I keep repairing but the same thing.

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hunt2013 Author

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May 14, 2011 2:54 PM in response to Kappy

Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent" has been modified and will not be repaired.

Thats one thing it says.

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Kappy

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May 14, 2011 5:08 PM in response to hunt2013

The recurring warnings are innocuous and may be ignored. What's important is if repairing (not verifying) the HDD and permissions helped along with the Restart.

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hunt2013 Author

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May 14, 2011 7:53 PM in response to Kappy

Everything appears to be okay for now but I'll post back if anything else happens.

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