Finder Crash on Lion

Hi I had exactly the same problems after upgrading to Lion. The best explanation and solution I have found can be viewed at

http://intermarketing.merkados.com/finder-problems-mac-os-x-lion-finder-keeps-re starting-solution

Although not foolproof as you have to keep repeating the process it is the first help I've had.

Please apple fix this problem, it is damaging your reputation.

Null-0

I do! I downloaded Dropbox and the Finder has crashed by blinking with the "restore windows"-window. The I created another administrator account and from here deleted Dropbox. Then restarted and logged in to my normal account. Now Finder wasn't blinking like before but there is nothing viewable on the Desktop and when I click on Finder in the Dock several times it comes up with a window for a splitsecond then closes the window again. Then I can press it several times again and it comes up for a splitsecond and the closes again. When hitting the command-aoption-esc, the icon blinks here. I've actually also tried the killall Finder in terminal, but even this doesn't work. WHATTODO???

noipac wrote:

WHATTODO???

Start your own thread so people can address your individual problem. This thread is over seven months old.

Pete

Im having the same issue with Finder crashing, however this only seems to happen after i install paragon NTFS version 9.5.3 however other user accounts work with no issues. Is there a way to find out what program could be causing this issue? I get no desktop icons and finder fails to do anything after 3 seconds of login.

TheHAAG wrote:

Im having the same issue with Finder crashing, however this only seems to happen after i install paragon NTFS version 9.5.3 however other user accounts work with no issues. Is there a way to find out what program could be causing this issue? I get no desktop icons and finder fails to do anything after 3 seconds of login.

You will get more attention to your problem by opening a fresh post and detailing your exact problems there.

Good Luck

Pete

Hit by the same problem after running software update on my mid 2010 iMac

Got this solved by following robby57 steps plus doing a sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash (http://www.statusq.org/archives/2011/08/16/3495/)

Hope this helps

FIXED! After restoring my 2010 MacBook Pro TWICE running Lion, I figured out the cause.

As mentioned previously in this post, the culprit is TIME MACHINE!

My office uses a Shared Server that has an external drive connected that people can point their Time Machine Backups too. After restoring, everything seemed fine, turned Time Machine on and shortly thereafter, FINDER CRAHSES!!!

So after reproducing this problem TWICE, turning off Time Machine seems to do the trick. Im three days running with no errors versus three force restarts per day.

🙂

Just to add another note here...

I updated to Lion awhile back, however, this issue just started for me. After studying the crashlog via the Console.app, I was able to determine the recently added Google Drive app was causing my Finder (not the machine) to crash and restart about every two minutes. It's been fine since I quite using the Google Drive app. Perhaps Google will update the app soon.

My PAINLESS fix:

1. Finder-> preferences->general tab->change to "always open folders in a new window"

2. Finder-> preferences->advanced->remove check for "show all filename extensions"

3. View-> as Icons

4. View->View options-> check "open in icon view" and "browse in icon view"

Making the above changes, I no longer had the finder crashing when opening folders etc. in Mac Lion OSX 10.7.4.

I noticed that in the desktop, when opening the icons and folders directly from the desktop, i was not crashing. I also noted the problem mentioned by other users with the leopard file extensions. However, instead of having to change file names, i mimicked the folder view i had in the desktop to the finder, thus avoiding the potential conflicts resulting in the check made viewing the problematic old extensions and a reiteration made when viewing in the same window. You may try to skip one or two of the above steps, but the above worked.

If you have any questions, please let me know or if i happened to skip a step. This was the least painful way to correct the problem and yet be able to view and access my files from the finder without any crashes.

i had the same problem, i found a post in another forum, on hov to remove .DS_store files with Terminal.

i Copy Pasted this line of text:

find . -name '*.DS_Store' -type f -delete

in Terminal and now i can use my mac again.

i have now clue about hwat i did, but it worked 🙂

i hope it will help.

Hello Brill Pappin ,

Thanks for the hints it it usefull for my existing thread : https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4247558?answerId=19406242022#19406242022&tstart=0#19406242?tstart=0

I was having a weird finder crash right at login. It would ask me to login twice and then become unusable, every time (about five times this morning). I booted into safemode, and then back in to standard, and all is good for now, fingers crossed.

Tha1der's solution sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash was spot on. Plus my machine had been working slowly for some time. Now it's back up to speed. OS X 10.8.2.

Thanks Alton! This fixed my problem too. Finder started crashing after I enabled File Vault. Now that I uninstsalled Google Drive, everything's ok again.

(Talked to Apple Support, they suggested reinstalling...)

Cheers!

PS: maybe it wasn't such a bad idea to get rid of Google Drive anyways, after all...

Similar problems with Google drive here on my desktop and laptop macs, although it's not caused any issues on my wife's macbook. Clearly there's a conflict with something.