mac os x mountain lion finder freeze

I'm having the exact same issue on my late 2011 MBP.

I keep having this problem on my 20" late 2008 iMac. Even when I try to shutdown the cumputer it freezes aswell. I need to cut power or press startup button to make it shutdown completly.
And just now when I resumed after cutting power, I can nolonger use bluetooth on it (***?!), which is a rather large problem when I use both Magic Trackpad and Magic Mouse.

I have the same problem with Macmini 2011.. Requires reboot and cannot burn a DVD at the moment.

Same issues in ML 10.8 - MacPro 2009

Same issue. Early 2011 MBP. Oringally just upgraded my Lion install. Attempted to fix disc permissions. No change. Backed up manually without timemachine, booted from USB stick, erased drive, created new partition, reloaded a fresh install of Mountain Lion. Manually restored vaiours pictures, documents, re-attached to iTunes Library, etc...

Same issue persists. Quite the annnoying bug. Needs to be addressed.

Have the same problem on MBP Late 2011 with only on difference - I don't need to reboot my mac it comes back responsable after 20 sec.

jepp, same here. Finder freezes randomly after Upgrade to ML, whole machine gets stuck, the Spinning Wheel all the time, Finder is not responding, if I am fast enough I can restart finder by clicking right mouse on the Icon in Dock, otherwise it takes 10-15 sec til freeze is over and Mac is back to work. Pretty much annoying I have to say.

Same here, MBP Early 2011, but no chance to quit finder. Had to power off (10 sec. on/off) and restart.

Yes, same here, iMac 2011 20". Also no chance to quit finder.

Often there´s software incompatibility involved, You can try this in 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 you are:

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

50 0 0xffffff7f808be000 0x46000 0x46000 at.obdev.nke.LittleSnitch (2.5.3) <7 5 4 3 1>

130 3 0xffffff7f824f4000 0x36000 0x36000 org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxDrv (4.1.18) <7 5 4 3 1>

131 0 0xffffff7f8252a000 0x8000 0x8000 org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxUSB (4.1.18) <130 46 32 7 5 4 3 1>

132 0 0xffffff7f82532000 0x5000 0x5000 org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetFlt (4.1.18) <130 7 5 4 3 1>

133 0 0xffffff7f82537000 0x6000 0x6000 org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetAdp (4.1.18) <130 5 4 1>

heres another one:

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

102 0 0xffffff7f808c6000 0x5000 0x5000 com.logmein.driver.LogMeInSoundDriver (1.0.0) <101 5 4 3>

103 0 0xffffff7f807b6000 0x5000 0x5000 com.Cycling74.driver.Soundflower (1.5.1) <101 5 4 3>

125 0 0xffffff7f821f7000 0x2000 0x2000 com.regularrateandrhythm.driver.RowmoteIREmu (1.0) <32 26 5 4 3>

There´s obviously an issue with Virtualbox. Here´s a google search:

http://tinyurl.com/d37mcg8

Another kernel panic with regularrateandrhythm:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3636791?start=0&tstart=0

So my advice to both of you would be checking for updates to the software which is associated with those files in your lists. Or even uninstall them (properly) if that´s an option for you.

Check also for yellow triangles in your login items (System preferences>Users & groups) after uninstalling - a minor cleanup.