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mac os x mountain lion finder freeze

Ever since I installed Mountain Lion on my late 2008 Macbook Pro, I've had several episodes where the Finder became unresponsive after doing certain tasks like emptying the trash. Force quitting the Finder or relaunching it results in the Finder and any external drives disappearing from my Desktop, so I am forced to power down my Macbook Pro then restarting. I've tried using Disk Utility to repair permissions, but that hasn't alleviated the problem. Should I try to do a clean install of Mountain Lion then?

MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2008), OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Jul 27, 2012 2:09 PM

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Sep 10, 2013 12:28 PM in response to Richard Tamesis

I have the same problem on an Air, Late 2010, running 10.8.4 (12E55).


After running the machine for a while finder stops (continuous beach ball). If I kill (restart) finder, there ist no new window and all icons on the desktop disappeared.


- I tried to delete com.apple.finder.plist -> same issue after one day.

- I reindexed my drive -> no change


Does anyone have an idea? The problem seems to be present for more than a year now with some people, and there is no fix.


It is totally disgusting.

Oct 6, 2013 4:50 AM in response to Richard Tamesis

I work regularity with 4 different machines.


1 - My Home iMac.

2 - My Companny MacBook Pro

3 - My Home MacBook Air

4 - My wife's MacBook Air


IN ALL THIS, exactly the same issue is happening after the last update!


EVERY DAY!!!! It happens a lot!!!

The finder freezes, the Dock just stop working, the notification center doesn't open anymore.... and two of the worst effects... The machine never goes sleep and never shut down!!!! I must to force the shut down via power button or cable.


THIS IS INSANELLY AMATEUR BUG!!!!

HOW THE **** APPLE LET THIS PASS THROUGH THE TESTERS????


Oh My god.... this never happened before in the Job's Era!

Oct 6, 2013 4:51 AM in response to Richard Tamesis

I work regularity with 4 different machines.


1 - My Home iMac.

2 - My Companny MacBook Pro

3 - My Home MacBook Air

4 - My wife's MacBook Air


IN ALL THIS, exactly the same issue is happening after the last update!


EVERY DAY!!!! It happens a lot!!!

The finder freezes, the Dock just stop working, the notification center doesn't open anymore.... and two of the worst effects... The machine never goes sleep and never shut down!!!! I must to force the shut down via power button or cable.


THIS IS INSANELLY AMATEUR BUG!!!!

HOW THE **** APPLE LET THIS PASS THROUGH THE TESTERS????


Oh My god.... this never happened before in the Job's Era!

Apr 11, 2014 5:11 AM in response to Richard Tamesis

This has gotten me so ****** right now....


Iv'e had it, im done. I'm on a Imac 2008, family has been using macs since I was about 8 years old. I'm 28 now, matter of fact today is my birthday,I'm a reelance artist, and this computer has served me well over the last 6 years. VERY WELL! Except when I had to replace the HD because of some manufacturers malfunction Apple covered in 2010, everything ran SMOOTHELY and i've always spoken highly of apples product.


Our family has gone through at least 20 different desktops, 20 different apple gadgets, yes i guess we'd be considered true faithfuls, from that old little grey box, to the original jello glass g3 imac and towers you name it we F ING HAD IT. I didn't choose to be a mac family, that was just how the diced rolled. OOOoo how i wished for a pc so bad when i was a young'n and all my friends were playing all the cool games. I still didn't mind, I stuck with it. And it payed off cause eventually, Apple became the "good stuff" to have. The popular/cassy/hip/cool thing to have. Iv'e had a great time with my imac, with limited gameing =( of course.


I was contemplating on which apple product to get next. I really need to take work with me, since i don't wanna be couped up in the house so much, so i said Mac book pro of course. A month ago, I finally paid for Mountain Lion(because Starcraft 2 is no longer supported 10.6, go figure ), and now i'm getting all of these INSANE CRASHES like everyone has been talking about! i'm like huffing and puffing on the daily because of these dam crashes, losing hours on work, even losing actual work. My power mac files are no longer working because of this "upgrade", this includes a ton of products that i F ing Paid for. I now have programs once usuable, now not because it's been 'upgraded' ? DOES THAT MAKE ANY SENSE?! NO! That's what we call a DOWNGRADE! You are taking from me not giving. Its all about the fcking money. All thes games and programs i paid for, no longer work on a machine..You know what that says? A lack of respect to their "beloved" customers. You(apple) said FcK you to us, now i'm saying fck you to YOU!


I'm done, thats it, good bye! Peace the Fu(k OUt. ANd i'm no longer promoting this BS company either. I read all the issues going with Maverick, I just can't risk it. it has a 3-1 ratio of 5 stars to 1 star. You'd expect a 100-1 as being a solid product, but 3-1!!!!!!!?????? Yes, i'm just one guy, but just know this one guys, is done. I'm sick of this BS. Time to get me a PC.

Apr 11, 2014 1:22 PM in response to FalkE

I feel everyone's pain with this constant freezing. No matter what steps are taken, there is no resolution and it continues on and on.


Sadly, the developers at Apple are far more concerned with their iPhone and iPod, the rest of us, the loyal supporters of Apple are discarded. Their thinking is that the Maverick upgrade would resolve issues with Mountain Lion, but, guess again, it has major problems and not only that, I have thousands of dollars invested in applications that are not approved for Maverick.


Complain all you want in the discussions, it all falls on deaf ears. Stop wasting time trying to fix the unfixable, push the power button and restart. Hope you saved whatever you were working on at the time.

Jun 9, 2014 5:38 PM in response to cozar

hey all, hope there are still some of you answer folks out there followng this thread, because there are still some of us - maye many of us! - out here, still getting Finder beachballs with Mt. Lion (10.8.5 in my cvase)

I have *no* beachballs when I boot in Safe, but a lot of them when I boot normally. I read a suggestion to run Terminal withthe command "kextstat | grep -v com.apple", and I got results (below) but I don't understand what the results are telling me? Are these files? I tried locating them with EasyFind, but no luck...

Here's what I got:

760 0xffffff7f80a69000 0x200000x20000tc.tctechnologies.driver.PaeFireStudio (4.0.0 14255) <75 40 5 4 3 1>
940 0xffffff7f81118000 0xb000 0xb000 com.rogueamoeba.HermesAudio (3.0.2) <75 5 4 3 1>
970 0xffffff7f80ab8000 0x9000 0x9000 com.motu.driver.USBMidiKext (1.6 57985) <34 5 4 3>
1090 0xffffff7f808a8000 0x9000 0x9000 com.kensington.trackballworks.driver (1.1.2) <71 34 29 5 4 3>
1150 0xffffff7f80aa4000 0x3000 0x3000 com.paceap.kext.pacesupport.snowleopard (5.9.1) <7 5 4 3 1>

any and all help *sincerely* appreciated!

Jun 9, 2014 6:26 PM in response to Bill Myers

I believe the problem still exist ... however, I have gotten around it by ... going to System Preferences and changing the Energy Saver ... I never put the Computer to sleep. I do allow the Display to sleep.


I believe the reboots and spinning balls has something to do with my External Drives. It rarely reboots if ever, if I remove all of my external drives ..... and that is not going to happen.


Peace,


Aleem

mac os x mountain lion finder freeze

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