mac os x mountain lion finder freeze

Hi there,

I was experiencing finder freezes (most noticeably when viewing external drives) so booted into "safe" mode ( hold "shift" key & reboot) . Finder was totally responsive in "safe" mode with no freezes so rebooted & the problem was gone - finder is much more responsive with no freezez or beachballs. Hope this helps

I'm having the same problem here. 2011 iMac, freezes not only the Finder but every open programs, such as Illustrator, Fireworks and iTunes...

We need support!!! I want to perform a downgrade now... cause with Snow Leopard it didnt happen at all!

Dear all,

I encountered the same problem on my MB mid 2009. The console line command returned me this:

ndex Refs Address Size Wired Name (Version) <Linked Against>

79 0 0xffffff7f81984000 0x4000 0x4000 com.ShapeServices.driver.HSAudioDevice (1.0.4) <78 5 4 3 1>

114 0 0xffffff7f82479000 0x15000 0x15000 com.tuxera.filesystems.tufsfs.fusefs_txantfs (2010.10.7) <7 5 4 3 1>

Can someone help me please?

Thanks!

I have freezing with finder, path finder and forklift file managers.

Seems that ALL file managers can freeze, using an alternative file manager is no solution.

CPU goes to 100% and have to power off.

I had that finder freezes too, but in my case, I have a solution!

It had something to do with the USB drivers. Everytime I connected an external drive or a memory stick, the finder freezes. After some Google-searching i found a hint, that maybe the printer drivers from HP are responsible for USB-problems.

And voila, that's it!

I removed the HP drivers from /Library/Printers and deleted all the HP printers from system preferences. Reinstalled them with the default driver (Airprint driver).

Since then (over 3 week ago) I had NO freezes anymore!

Me too! This is so frustrating that there's no solution to this problem. It's not just Mountain Lion, I had the same problem with Lion and that's how I ended up with Mountain Lion.

Same problem with my brand new Retina Macbook!

It worked about 1 Month, now i even did a full clean reinstall and 1h later the problems where back!

Finder is freezing on copy (or app install by copying) actions, time machine cannot backup to the time capsule etc.

Sometimes a process called feventsd is at 100%, then I cannot switch spaces anymore with multitouch gestures.

Having the same issues on a maxed out Retina macbook. Was fast and responsive with Lion and with ML the finder totally freeze up during copy to any USB disk. Even opening folders on the internal ssd is slow. When checking in Terminal during file copying to external usb-drive (seagate) it seems to be doing what it should, but the finder interface freezes. Relaunching the finder gets me back to normal. This really needs to be resolved.

Seems it's only related to the internal as well as USB3-drives for me. External USB2 drives (WB+Seagate) work perfekt.

Now finder hangs up when installing / drag-&-dropping skype.app to the Applications folder!

Any ideas?

I have had an ongoing and very frustrating similar problem with Finder not responding in Mountain Lion. Here's what I finally managed to do today that seems to have helped. I noticed my Finder was always trying to load the "All My Files" folder by default, forcing it to scan through thousands and thousands of files to sort. I disabled that folder from my Favorites sidebar in Finder preferences and chose to have new windows open by default in my user home folder, which is a much smaller list. Now when I click on the Finder to navigate, I don't automatically always get that spinning beach ball of death! Maybe this well help you, too. Good luck!

My 2008 24" iMAC routinely freezes with Mountain Lion. Repaired permissions, uninstalled some software. Nothing helped. It freezes in single apps like iTunes today and when multiple apps are open. Makes no difference which apps. Definitely appears to be tied to Mountain Lion issue. Apple is sleeping and unless they wake up soon, I won't be buying another MAC computer as I planned to do next year. Fortunately, I left my wife in Lion and she is fine.

This fixed my problem...

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4175088?start=0&tstart=0

Scroll down to William Lloyd's post. Mine was soundflower and seagate.

I JUST DISCOVERED THAT I WAS RUNNING AN OLD VERSION OF MACFUSE. IT'S UNDER OTHER IN PREFERENCES. I WENT TO ROARINGAPPS.COM AND FOUND THAT THE ONLY VERSION FULLY COMPATIBLE WITH MOUNTAIN LION IS 2.2.2. THERE WAS A LINK TO A SITE THATY HAD THE CURRENT VERSION SO I DOWNLOADED AND INSTALLED. NOW ITS WAIT AND SEE.

no solutions....