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apinaud Author

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Finder Crash on Lion

I have my Lion Finder crashing all the time.

I can't even restart, quit an app and it will get unresponsibe. A soon as you Force Quit, the Finder crash.

I can get to restart the machine, need to push the power button until it turns off.

Also everytime this happen, Spotlight begins the index again, from scratch.

Any ideas.

I have clean install Lion (Make an USB installer) and then move my files using time Machine.

I am afraid that the only solution is to begin from scratch... I hope not.

thanks!

Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Jul 21, 2011 1:17 PM

49 replies

sprale

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Oct 17, 2013 1:49 PM in response to apinaud

We have been having a similar issue with Snow Leopard 10.6.8 on a late model iMac. Initially, the Finder would crash and relaunch frequently, sometimes a few times a day. The user complained, but was able to work around it, as it did not affect other apps. We reinstalled the OS (wiped drive) at one point, but it persisted. Eventually, we replaced the Mac with an identical model. Unfortunately, the issue persisted. More recently, we upgraded Parallels to v8, which seemed to reduce the frequency to maybe once a week or so, but its still there.

vahoeng

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Nov 30, 2013 10:37 AM in response to apinaud

Today I was working with my Macmini with LION os..

Finder was crashing again and again..

I tried to restart and found it was carshing and color full while rotating conti...

I found that i attached external hard drive with my mac mini...

when i unplugged ... found it is working fine....

... it means some enternal hardware or storage was giving problem.....

Any problem '...mail me at vahoeng@gmail.com🙂

Apr 8, 2014 12:53 AM in response to apinaud

I just noticed the bug in my case. Google Drive integration was causing finder to crash.
Downloading new version didn't help.
Deactivated it for now and now finder is working like a charme.

petermac87

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Apr 8, 2014 3:09 AM in response to a new found flo

Yes, Google Drive is rubbish sadly.

Pete

Finder Crash on Lion