Finder Loop after background update

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Finder Loop after background update

This morning my system did a background update, and now I am stuck in a loop with Finder telling me that it shut down while trying to reopen windows. I have closed all of the running apps that I can, and I am continually getting the following error in Console:

com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[166]: (com.apple.Finder[1178]) Job appears to have crashed: Segmentation fault: 11

ReportCrash[1177]: Removing excessive log: file://localhost/Users/*/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Finder_2013-02-05-08035 9_*-MacBook-Pro.crash

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Feb 5, 2013 6:24 AM

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Answer 1

CT

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Feb 5, 2013 6:40 AM in response to jsnelle

Some things to try.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3193215?start=15&tstart=0

Start up in Safe Mode

Consider third party software conflicts.

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Answer 2

jsnelle Author

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Feb 5, 2013 6:53 AM in response to CT

Found it. Citrix Reciever runs a file sharing utility in the background. The moment that I staopped that from running, everything went back to normal.

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Answer 3

Aug 15, 2015 5:15 PM in response to jsnelle

Fantastic! ✅

Your clue and doing a SAFE BOOT so I could remove two apps solved the problem . . .

Citrix software already was on the MacBook I am repairing, and I ran its Preference Pane to determine what it does, but then I downloaded and tried to install the free trial version of Drive Genius 4, which would not install since at present the MacBook is running Mac OS X 10.7.5 (Lion) . . .

So, I can't say for certain whether the culprit was the Citrix software or the free trial version of Drive Genius 4, but after I zapped both of them and rebooted, everything was fine, which is fabulous . . .

Fabulous! 🙂

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