Mavericks: The application can't be found

This worked for me. So thanks Sellput🙂

Turner72's fix worked, unfortunately only for a couple days. The problem came back. Do we have an idea of what is causing this issue? I can keep fixing it by deletling favorites and shortcuts to my server locations, but I can't tell my work to stop using SMB shares. Thoughts?

I agree, @MaccedOut, this is pretty poor behaviour from Apple.

It's not like this operating system is new anymore.

They obviously don't consider the problem to be serious enough to warrant fixing (?!)

Has anyone come to any greater understanding on this issue? I can connect manually via Go/Connect to Server and then connect with CIFS and things work fine, but I have to connect manually. If I use one of my links in Finder, the problem occurs. And I have deleted them all and recreated them after connecting via CIFS.

So, after I manually connect via CIFS, the links work, all is fine.

If I just click the link and it automatically connects the drive to the server, the problem occurs.

Does anyone know how to make it automatically connect via CIFS when you click one of your links in Finder?

All of your original shortcuts/aliases will connect via SMB which is why the problem is reoccurring.

You'll need to recreate your aliases after you connect using CIFS.

I was hopeful 10.9.5 update would solve this. But no.

This was helpful. Unmounting and remounting removed the error. I've noticed a lot of similar errors with shared data drives between my macs since 10.9. Always logout, log back on and it works.

Is this issue resolved by upgrading to to Yosemite?

The "permanent" fix is to first create local aliases to the network share folders, and then add those aliases to the sidebar. Do not add SMB network share folders directly to the sidebar because they will eventually break and exhibit the behavior discussed in this thread.

So a simple fix:

1. Create a new folder in your Home folder called "Links"
2. Drag the Links folder to your Finder's sidebar area to add it
3. Connect to your network share and browse to the folder you would like a shortcut to, and select it
4. Drag and drop an alias (Command-Option drag) of this folder into the Links folder
5. Select the new alias from the Links folder, and drag it to the sidebar

Moral of the story: Local aliases to network folders are much more resilient than sidebar items created directly from the network folder. Create local aliases to your favorite SMB network folders first, and add the alias to the sidebar instead.