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User profile for user: Tehninjah
Tehninjah Author
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Finder keeps crashing randomly

For some reason, Finder has been crashing randomly for one week.


Every five minutes or so, Finder closes for 10 seconds, and reopens again. Every time, I get a lot of error reports in Console:


(this is all in the same second)


01/05/2012 19:13:02.164 Finder: ISGetIconFamilyFromStorage: seed mismatch for 22630019, actual seed is 62bbd95a

01/05/2012 19:13:02.165 Finder: ISGetIconFamilyFromStorage: seed mismatch for 2233001a, actual seed is 436c6125

01/05/2012 19:13:02.165 Finder: _GetISImageRefFromIconRefInternal: could not retain image ref 0x27b70021 (err=-2580)


Each of these appears about 20 times with random numbers. I've tried deleting com.apple.finder.plist and quitting Finder, but it keeps happening.


Any help?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), iMac 27"

Posted on May 1, 2012 11:15 AM

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User profile for user: Zacharias Beckman
Zacharias Beckman
User level: Level 1
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Nov 4, 2013 8:25 PM in response to Tehninjah

In my case, same problem... it was Google Drive causing the problem (for me, anyhow). Figures. Google... bah.


Followed the complete uninstall steps:

  1. Go to Google Drive menu bar icon, choose Preferences, and unlink Google Drive from my account.
  2. Quit Google Drive.
  3. Drag Google Drive from /Applications to trash.
  4. Remove Google Drive from Preferences > Users & Groups > Startup Items.


Wait a while and see what happens. This fixed the problem for me. (You can restart "just to be sure" but it didn't seem to be necessary in my case).

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Finder keeps crashing randomly

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