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After I update to new MAX OS X Mavericks ,I get the problem. But when I booting into safe mode , It be OK.
what problem with my finder?
I have try many way to fix it , such as delete all .DS_store, But it did not work.
Please help.
Mac Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9), Finder
Google Drive is the culprit. It's not necessary to quit Google Drive completely, it will be sufficient to disable "Show fiile sync status icons" in it's preferences window. This solution came by in a similar discussion and works for me: no more Finder restarts.
Thanks to all of you. I can confirm that also in my case the issue was google drive. Once I shut down gd my finder was back to normal.
Just to join the choir: - Google Drive was the culprit here too. Phew, thought it was because I have a fairly old MBP here...
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It seems that quitting google drive has also fixed the problem for me too! Knowing Google, they should have a fix out for this pronto! Until then, bye-bye Google Drive!
Thanks lundejd!!
The problem is Google Drive!!
Just turn it off and the finder stops relaunching...
God bless you....
I have the same problem and I think it is a bug. I have installed Google Drive and this may be cause the problem. Try to search for "Finder refresh" in Google or in this community to find a solution. Fortunalety, I think there is one (I hope).
I found that simply shutting Google Drive's "show status" off did the trick. Fingers crossed...
same to me. and problem resulved after stoped google drive. but the same question, why it happened after a few days the system upgraded. Thanks to the guy who found out this.
I am not install Google Drive. What can I do for find out witch application is culprit.
Google Drive was the culprit for me. As soon as I disconnected the restarts settled down. I unistalled Google drive and restarted and it all seems fine for now.
This has been driving me nuts all day. Bad Bad Google!
Other possibilities are Mac Keeper and iTune up. Try killing them too.
Google Drive was the culprit for me, too. All is well once I quit out of it. Mavericks is now running like well-oiled machine!
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google drive wrecked my finder 😀
Trashing the finder prefs worked for me. Thanks @walesmd!
Solved the problem. Thanks!
Mavericks finder keeps relaunching over and over again
