Q: Mavericks Finder keeps crashing!

Dave, try simply disabling the "show file sync status icons" option under google drives preferences and you should be good to go. So far that seems to be a quick fix.

Same here. Everything was ok until one hour ago. Solution, at least at this stage, was to turn off the GoogleDrive option (as mentioned above). Finder was crashing every minute (few files under /Users/<name>/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports). No more crashes for the last 10 minutes. Last crash was at [5 Nov 15:12].

disabling the Google Drive setting as described seems to have calmed the repeated Finder failure for me as well. On top of that, my hard drive was churning heavily until the moment I unclicked that preference in Google Drive – now my computer is very quiet and Finder seems happy.

Same here Dave Sag1. I upgraded Mavericks last week. No problems until I came home from work today and saw the repeated crashing. I'm assuming Google did a Drive update that broke something. Unchecking the preference seems to have helped.

The google "Show file sync icons" suggestion worked for me

see thread. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5526061?tstart=0

Yep, this worked for me too!

I coud not find the file. It doesn't exist on my computer.

Guys, why is this happening? My Finder keeps crashing when I double click on certain folders to navigate.

The solution is on the first page of this thread. Google drive seems to be the culprit. Simply disable the "show sync file status icons" feature in the google drive preferences, and you should be good to go.

good eye my friend.  Worked for me.  C'mon google, don't be evil!  tsk tsk.

Thank you. It sovled my problem

Hi, I had the exact same issue. Disabling Google Drive as fwmaietta suggests resolved the issue for me as well!

My problem started this morning after Google Drive asked to update something in my system. Then the every few minutes crash cycle reported here started. I don't use GD that often so just switched it off and quit it. Problem solved. Thanks for the heads up on it being a GD problem.

I get the Finder crash and I've never had Google Drive on my Macs. But for me, these crashes are infrequent and intermittent. I think the Google Drive simply triggers another, deeper problem a lot more frequently. I had a Finder crash yesterday on the Mac Pro (mid 2012, Mavericks) when connecting between my MacBook Pro (Mavericks) and my Mac Pro. It's been mostly OK with a crash once in a while. But I also deleted my com.apple.finder.plist from my user/library/preferences when the crashes were happening every time I opened a new Finder window and this deletion has certainly helped.

There is another Finder .plist preference file that I didn't delete so I'll do this just to see if it finally fixes things.

You're the man, apparently it is google drive. Many thanks!