mac os x mountain lion finder freeze

I just bought this machine in September 2011 so I don't need a new hard drive replacement and it came with Mountain Lion. I don't have Parallels and don't intend to install it ever again after the experience on my prior computer. I'm glad you solved your problem by reinstalling everything. I've done that already and still have problems.

Hi,

I had a similar issue with Finder running mountain lion - it kept freezing but was very weird because I could open new Finder windows. I could then access My Documents, Desktop, Apps etc, but not my actual user details and library. Also couldn't access Box Sync docos.

After hours googling, playing around etc I rang Apple and we fixed as per below. He said he hadn't heard of this issue before so it might not help but you never know:

Re-start in Safe Mode (by holding Shift when you hear the chime)

Go to Library (click on "Go" up the top, hold down option or Alt and it will appear)

Library > Preferences.

Find "com.apple.finder" and remove - copy to desktop

Re-start and login

My issue was gone. Hope it helps for others.

Hi,

I had a similar issue with Finder running mountain lion - it kept freezing but was very weird because I could open new Finder windows. I could then access My Documents, Desktop, Apps etc, but not my actual user details and library. Also couldn't access Box Sync docos.

After hours googling, playing around etc I rang Apple and we fixed as per below. He said he hadn't heard of this issue before so it might not help but you never know:

Re-start in Safe Mode (by holding Shift when you hear the chime)

Go to Library (click on "Go" up the top, hold down option or Alt and it will appear)

Library > Preferences.

Find "com.apple.finder" and remove - copy to desktop

Re-start and login

My issue was gone. Hope it helps for others.

Holl,

Your suggesting worked for me except the startup sequence for single user is Command-S and when in single user mode you need to enable read/write permissions by executing /sbin/mount -uw before removing the file which resides in /User/<username>/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder i just added todays date before the name with the mv command incase you need the file back. Then rebooted and finder is behaving itself, thanks.

I have been experiencing a Finder freeze when connecting to my home network attached storage device. It doesn't happen everytime I connect. I'll disconnect the drive, then try to reconnect. Spinning wheel of death. Have to force shut down. I have confirmed that it occurs when connecting to network drives on other devices; on other networks to rule out a network/NAS device issue. Late 2012 Macbook Pro Retina.

So here's what I have...

com.apple.finder is not seen

All files is unchecked

No Seagate drives

Drivers updated

Spinning wheel of death is still present with ML on my MacBook Pro circa 2011

Thoughts?

I too have been having these issues on my new MacBook Pro running 10.8.2. I have uninstalled all "culprits" except Parallels 8. I had no problems on my computer until after the weekend I installed SugarSync and Parallels. Has there been any confirmation that Parallels is causing issues?

Here is what I know.

I reinstalled my Mac completely -- then did not install Parallels 8 and to date I have only seen the problem once and it has been a couple of months now.

For now I am going to wait until 10.8.3 to try Parallels again. I can't prove it was Parallels but I am suspicious.

I suppose I can just keep restarting every morning until the next OS X update.

I just uninstalled Parallels 8. I will know with 24-48 hours if that was the issue (since I've had to hard reboot every 24-48 hours since installing Parallels).

Download and install "Maintenance" by Titanium software. It's free and it will clean all the cashes and permissions and the problem will stop. It's basically a one click program that accomplishes the same cache clearing that rebooting into safe mode and then rebooting into regular mode does.

After 6 days of Parallels being unstalled, no issues yet. Another teacher friend was having exactly the same issues (we both received our new MacBooks at the same time and installed Parallels on the same day). She also is now having no issues after uninstalling Parallels. One would have to assume at this point, that Parallels was causing the freezing.

I have exact your problems ( my Imac freezing) .

The soluction here is....

Go to Finder "Go" menu hold the option key and choose Library. Then go to Preferences folder and trash these files:

com.apple.finder.plist

com.apple.sidebarlists.plist

Juls, it worked just fine for me. Thank you SO MUCH for sharing!

Thankyou,

That has fixed my finder continual lockups so far.

My finder lockups seemed to of come about after tweaking of finder views (i.e. icon sizes, grid spacing, in different views, trying to optimise my viewing options)

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