Anyone else having endless Finder crashes in Mavericks?

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Anyone else having endless Finder crashes in Mavericks?

I apparently installed Mavericks successfully on my early-2008 Core2Duo MacBook Pro. But as soon as I log in, the Finder goes into an endless loop of crashing. The crash report mentions something about an external process or access being the cause, if I recall correctly. But then it just lists a long line of system files and processes.

I removed all of my login items, but the crashes continue. The only way to get the Finder to function is to boot up in Safe Mode. I did that, in order to run all the available updates, but that did not cure the endless Finder crashes. Even reinstalled Mavericks -- waste of time.

I have used every version of OS X starting from 10.0, and this is the very first time I have been unable to get a new version running.

Anyone know a fix? I'm ready to erase my boot drive and copy over my Mountain Lion backup from its external drive.

MacBook Pro, 2.4 GHZ Core2Duo, Mac OS X (10.6), 4 GB RAM, SuperDrive

Posted on Oct 23, 2013 4:24 AM

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Answer 1

esteban_

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Oct 23, 2013 9:42 AM in response to paulimpola

EDIT: I have a similar problem, but I am stuck in the loop, so this is likely different.

I beleive it might be interaction with a third party install, Docker. I cannot get out of the crash loop. Safe boot gets a crash as well.

Searhing for "mavericks finder crash" and restricting to the past 24hrs you'll find others with the same problem but no solutions yet. Is there maybe a way to create a new admin user?

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andrewsh

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Oct 23, 2013 10:39 AM in response to paulimpola

I am having a similar Finder crash issue. I have been running Mavericks since the GM release and this issue just started today.

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orcajet

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Oct 23, 2013 12:43 PM in response to paulimpola

I'm having the same issue... Its definitley docker

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Answer 4

Oct 23, 2013 12:47 PM in response to paulimpola

go to system preferences>security and privacy>accessibility and see if there is anything in there that wants to be allowed/checked.

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pixelmix

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Oct 23, 2013 1:01 PM in response to paulimpola

Whilst I have not run Mavericks and Docker yet to verify the issue, I can confirm that Docker is not updated to support 10.8 or later, and does not claim to be compatible - www.blocksoft.net has made that clear for some time.

The main features of Docker are of less relevance in 10.8 and later due to changes to the Dock and compatibility issues introduced by new features in the Dock introduced by Apple. I do not recommend running Docker with OS X 10.8 or later.

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paulimpola Author

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Oct 23, 2013 1:19 PM in response to orcajet

I do not have Docker on my system, but I do have a couple of other third-party GUI tweaks. Most likely one or more of them is the culprit.

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Oct 26, 2013 3:20 PM in response to paulimpola

I do not have Docker, or any other GUI tweaks installed. Immediately after installing Mavericks I get the Finder crash loop. I used Time Machine to revert to 10.8.5 Snow Lepard and still get the crash loop.

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Oct 26, 2013 3:34 PM in response to paulimpola

I fixed the issue that I had with something similiar. Don't know if it will work for you.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5477689?answerId=23539521022#23539521022

I was running mavericks in safeboot.

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Answer 9

Oct 27, 2013 10:37 AM in response to paulimpola

I had the same problem. In my case deleting contents of the folder ~/Library/Saved Application State/com.apple.finder.savedState solved that problem. Try this see if it can solve the problem

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Oct 27, 2013 3:06 PM in response to Namig Hajiyev

Thanks Namig. I checked this out but that file doesnt exist on the machine with the finder-crash-and-restart problem. It might work for others, though.

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paulimpola Author

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Oct 27, 2013 6:37 PM in response to Jeff from AE

The technique referenced in the link provided by Jeff from AE finally cured the Finder crash loop. After removing all my login items from System Preferences and all files from ~/Library/LaunchItems, ~/Library/StartupItems, /Library/LaunchItems and /Library/LaunchDaemons, my Finder is finally stable in Mavericks.

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Answer 12

Nov 3, 2013 6:38 PM in response to paulimpola

Hi, do you have any cloud services like DropBox, Box.net or OpenDrive that open on startup and show up on he menu bar in Finder? There have been upgrades to at least DropBox and OpenDrive in the last few days that, when installed, have improved things for me.

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