mac os x mountain lion finder freeze

Dear All,

I've been waiting for some days for replying. I tried to focus my attention on the kernel panic messages and I found the Tuxera driver (as explained in my first reply) as "old". After updating it I have never encountered any other freeze. So my personal opinion is to follow that way (unfortunately I don't remember the kernel panic console command, but you can find it in the first pages of this discussion) and update or uninstall what is creating conflicts on your Macs.

"All my files" was the problem for me: Thanks, Juls!

I resolved issue. For my case.

I detected that MemoryFree application effect on freezing.

This application was installed on Mac os x 10.7 from appstore.

So after deleting my macbook work fine!

I hope this helps

The "All My Files" solution worked. Finder>Preferences>Sidebar> Uncheck the All My Files box. Then click on the "General" tab at the top and change "New Finder windows show:" to anything but "All My Files"

Thanks Juls!!!

I have a late 2008 Mac Book Pro (2.66 Core 2 Duo) and had the same problem. Additionally I have replaced my HDD with a Crucial M4 and my CD-RW with an OCZ Vertex2 using an optibay.

The fix in My case was the Firmware upgrade of the Crucial M4 SSD from Rev 000F to 010G.

The Vertex 2 also got an upgrade to version 1.37

I keep my OS on the Crucial M4 and my Home on the OCZ.

Hope this helps someone.

Looks like Apple, in the 10.8.2 Combo changed some drivers for the SSDs and firmware upgrade is mandatory on the nonsuported SSDs.

Thank you.

macuser00101's solution worked!!! The "All My Files" seemed to help for a while, but the computer eventulally started freezing again. Updating the firmware of my Crucial M4 is what did it for me. Thanks macuser00101!

I got so excited when I saw this and hoped it would fix my Finder freezing/stalling problems... until I realized that All My Files was already unchecked (turned it off long ago). Unfortunately, Finder still freezes up whenever I try to move/copy files to different places, whether on the internal drive or an external one via firewire. The same thing is happening to all of my ML-upgraded friends, though some of them are having an issue where Finder won't even open upon clicking the dock icon. So weird.

This, I'm afraid, in my experience is the wonderful world of Apple. My late 2010 27" iMac has been a constant source of stress (my first and definitely last Apple machine).

Among the myriad of problems the Finder is another constant source of annoyance. I have a NAS attached - the most advanced OS in the world (Apple's words) is incapable of dealing with it. The finder either freezes totally or just does not show the contents of the folder on the drive (accessing via a Windows machine has no problems at all). Oh, of course, don't expect spotlight to search the NAS - it is incapable of doing this.

In my view the OS is flawed in too many areas to cover. But, frankly, an OS that falls down as frequently as Lion, Mountain Lion, etc does not deserve to be viewed a favourably as it seems to be.

I am sorry I cannot offer a solution here - there doesn't seem to be one. And before the Apple faithful come up with arcane measures that involve commands in terminal - that is not good enough. The OS should just work - particularly it's essential and basic feature - a reliable file management system being a core requirement.

I realise that these forums are not monitored by Apple - they should be for goodness sake.

I have a 2010 iMac and I have been experiencing crashes ever since I upgraded to Mountain Lion. I read earlier in this thread and I followed these directions:

Terminal (Application>Utilities):

Copy and paste this line (don´t type) into the command line and press enter:

kextstat | grep -v com.apple

Copy the resulting list and paste it in this thread.

Here are my results:

imac:~ MR$ kextstat | grep -v com.apple

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

100 0 0xffffff7f80905000 0x5000 0x5000 com.logmein.driver.LogMeInSoundDriver (1.0.0) <99 5 4 3>

Thanks Juls seems to have fixed my problem.

I also removed the bookmark for all files from my Finder and even the noise seems to have reduced.

Regards,

Vitorio.

I am so disappointed at Apple's non-response to resolving the issue of Finder constantly freezing in Mountain Lion. After reading all the discussions and solutions, you think Apple would at least find a fix instead of leaving it up to the users to do their testing.

My previous machine was Snow Leopard and I never had this problem. I upgraded to a iMac 27 with Mountain Lion and it's been **** ever since with the freezing, reboots, force quit, and hair pulling. There is no difference in performance whether one app is open or three or four, all my apps are the same when I had Snow Leopard and it makes no difference whether I use Firefox, Safari, or Chrome. This hang up is random making it a major issue the programmers have to address.

Mamann,

Unfortunately, Apple don't seem to care (this will cause me to shouted down by the Apple faithfull and probably have this comment removed). My first (and never again) iMac 27 has suffered this problem together with a miriad of others,

There was recently a decision by Apple to replace the hard disk of some iMac 27 - this I had already had to do after major disk failure after 18 months. My iMac, surprise, surprise (after 18 months of hassle and trying to get help) was one of the affected machines. I finally got my money back for the hard disc replacement. Too little, too late in my opinion. Apple show a staggering disregard for it's customers.

However, check with Apple to see if you might have a machine with a dodgy hard drive.

Here is an extract of an email from Apple

"Apple has determined that certain 1TB Seagate hard drives used in 21.5-inch and 27-inch iMac systems may fail. These systems were sold between October 2009 and July 2011. Our records show that you have an iMac with an affected 1TB Seagate hard drive. Apple will replace your hard drive with a new one, free of charge, under the iMac 1TB Seagate Hard Drive Replacement Program." http://www.apple.com/uk/support/imac-harddrive/?cid=CDM-EU-3708&cp=em-P0013590-1 92444&sr=em

Maybe you will be lucky.

Cheers

Thanks Wmike1503 for sharing your issues. I did check to see if my hard drive falls into the replacement program, it doesn't.

When Lion first came out, I held off until the bugs were worked out. In the meantime, my iMac 24 died (extreme use) and the new one came with Mountain Lion. Little things started to pop up, slow shutdowns and restarts, persistent permission clean up, applications stop responding, sporadic interruption to network, and my external hard drive for backups randomly gets disconnected. Eliminating all the possibilities for failures, it comes down to the system software.

I really don't want to go back to Windows. I have too much invested in applications to start over and what's to say Windows hasn't cleaned up their act too. None of them are perfect, but this is getting ridiculous when the users have to suffer the failures of programmers.

I suffered with this finder crash on Mountain Lion for almost a month. I tried all of the local remendies here--turning off the "All my files" etc. My particular case was one where if I opened a dialog to import a file in nearly any application that I would pick--in my case Xcode and the dialog would hang forever never showing me the files when I would try to navigate from folder to folder.

Other symptons would include Time Machine would never complete a backup and the finder would never restart should I decide to relaunch. It simply would not launch. The system at this point would also not shut down. I had to turn it off.

I played with nearly every application on my system and removed anything that I didn't trust except for one application that I wished I had tried before I did the ultimate solution which was to reformat the hard drive and reinstall fresh. I did not uninstall Parallels Desktop 8.

I did try before I went with the ultimate solution reinstalling mountain lion on top of my current installation. That didn't help at all--though at first I thought it did. Ultimately reinstalling everything but Parallels did solve my problem. I have everything reinstalled except Parallels and my system is rock solid and has now been this way for two weeks.

Guys--try uninstalling Parallels 7/8 and see if your problems go away. Would love to know if anyone else can cofirm this fix.

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