The last time you opened finder, it unexpectedly quit while reopening windows. - I get this message every time I turn on my computer in Mavericks

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The last time you opened finder, it unexpectedly quit while reopening windows. - I get this message every time I turn on my computer in Mavericks

It doesn't matter if I have no Finder windows open when I shut down my computer, I will ALWAYS get this message when I start up my computer.

Any cures out there?

iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011), OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)

Posted on Feb 9, 2014 11:42 PM

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Answer 1

disguise

Level 2

452 points

Feb 10, 2014 9:00 AM in response to Questionable Sanity

I personnally don't have this problem. However, a quick search identified an issue with Google drive.

Are you using Google Drive?

Here's the document I'm referring to

Finder crashes and restarts...: Apple Support Communities

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Answer 2

Feb 10, 2014 9:28 AM in response to disguise

Thanks for your reply. Yeah, I saw that thread. I should have put it in my original question.

I don't use Google Drive. The Finder runs fine once going, it just seems to crash once on original launch.

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Answer 3

Linc Davis

Level 10

209,559 points

Feb 10, 2014 10:33 AM in response to Questionable Sanity

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:

☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)

☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.

☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.

Step 1

Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select

View ▹ Show Log List

from the menu bar.

Enter the name of the crashed application or process in the Filter text field. Select the messages from the time of the last crash, if any. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).

When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.

Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.

Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

Step 2

In the Console window, look under User Diagnostic Reports (not "Diagnostic and Usage Messages") for crash reports related to the crashed process. The report name starts with the name of the process, and ends with ".crash". Select the most recent report and post the entire contents — again, the text, not a screenshot. In the interest of privacy, I suggest that, before posting, you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if it’s present (it may not be.) Please don’t post other kinds of diagnostic report — they're very long and not helpful.

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Answer 4

Feb 13, 2014 10:18 AM in response to Linc Davis

Linc Davis,

Thanks for the reply. While doing some unrelated house cleaning, (ie moving my steam install to external drive), I decided to go through my system preferences and remove some third party ones, some that have been getting re-installed since the switch to Intel processors, and I removed a couple that I no longer use. While they were technically already deactivated, it appears removing them and all their components has fixed whatever issue the finder was having. So clearly one of them wasn't truly inactive and was causing some sort of conflict with OSX's resume feature.

Thanks for your time, we can consider this one closed.

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Answer 5

May 16, 2014 3:41 PM in response to Questionable Sanity

I'm having the same problem only it's with iTunes, can anyone help??? I've not been able to use it for 3 months and cannot find anything onlie to help unless I pay £75 to take into the Apple store. I've tried uninstall and reinstall but still nothing.

This is what comes up immediately after trying to open iTunes

"The last time you opened iTunes, it unexpectedly quit while reopening windows. Do you want to try reopen its windows again? If you choose not to reopen windows, you may have to open and position the windows yourself"

Can somebody please help?

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Answer 6

br8thw8

Level 1

4 points

Jun 9, 2014 10:54 PM in response to Questionable Sanity

I am having this problem. I had installed Yosemite and now I reinstalled Mavericks from a Time Machine backup.

Putting the backup back on appeared to be successful but then after a couple of minutes I started to get this error popping up. It doesn't matter if I click "Don't Reopen", or "Reopen" or if I do nothing - it keeps popping up and my desktop will flash for a second showing no icons, then the icons will be back and the error returns. It's like the Finder is stuck in a loop restarting over and over. I tried reinstalling the backup again and the same thing. I know it was working fine when I made the backup. Here is a partial dump of my Console:

6/9/14 10:42:52.998 PM ReportCrash[2735]: Removing excessive log: file:///Users/br8thw8/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Finder_2014-06-09-224121_R icks-rMBP.crash

6/9/14 10:42:57.854 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[289]: (com.apple.Finder[2753]) Job appears to have crashed: Illegal instruction: 4

6/9/14 10:42:57.961 PM ReportCrash[2735]: Saved crash report for Finder[2753] version 10.9.3 (10.9.3) to /Users/br8thw8/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Finder_2014-06-09-224257_Ricks-rM BP.crash

6/9/14 10:42:57.963 PM ReportCrash[2735]: Removing excessive log: file:///Users/br8thw8/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Finder_2014-06-09-224124_R icks-rMBP.crash

6/9/14 10:43:02.968 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[289]: (com.apple.Finder[2761]) Job appears to have crashed: Segmentation fault: 11

6/9/14 10:43:03.069 PM ReportCrash[2735]: Saved crash report for Finder[2761] version 10.9.3 (10.9.3) to /Users/br8thw8/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Finder_2014-06-09-224303_Ricks-rM BP.crash

6/9/14 10:43:03.070 PM ReportCrash[2735]: Removing excessive log: file:///Users/br8thw8/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Finder_2014-06-09-224126_R icks-rMBP.crash

6/9/14 10:43:07.000 PM kernel[0]: Data/Stack execution not permitted: Finder[pid 2778] at virtual address 0x10af7a000, protections were read-write

6/9/14 10:43:07.973 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[289]: (com.apple.Finder[2778]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error: 10

6/9/14 10:43:08.077 PM ReportCrash[2735]: Saved crash report for Finder[2778] version 10.9.3 (10.9.3) to /Users/br8thw8/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Finder_2014-06-09-224308_Ricks-rM BP.crash

6/9/14 10:43:08.078 PM ReportCrash[2735]: Removing excessive log: file:///Users/br8thw8/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Finder_2014-06-09-224131_R icks-rMBP.crash

6/9/14 10:43:13.026 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[289]: (com.apple.Finder[2786]) Job appears to have crashed: Segmentation fault: 11

Thanks for any help!

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Answer 7

babowa

Level 9

78,133 points

Jun 10, 2014 12:50 PM in response to br8thw8

Unfortunately we are not allowed to discuss anything to do with a not yet publicly released OS version (which appears to be the source of your problem) - please post your question in the special (developer) forums Apple makes available to you as we wouldn't be able to reproduce or help since we haven't installed it (or, if we have, our NDA prevents us from discussing it).

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Answer 8

tchrpwt

Level 1

4 points

Jul 29, 2014 9:53 AM in response to Linc Davis

Mine later crash report was (new ones keep being generated as the error message keeps popping up every few seconds) :

Process: Finder [7411]

Path: /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder

Identifier: com.apple.finder

Build Info: Finder_FE-885004002000000~1

Responsible: Finder [7411]

__TEXT 000000010ddee000-000000010e2bd000 [ 4924K] r-x/rwx SM=COW /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder

6 com.apple.finder 0x000000010de287a8 0x10ddee000 + 239528

7 com.apple.finder 0x000000010de270ed 0x10ddee000 + 233709

8 com.apple.finder 0x000000010de28222 0x10ddee000 + 238114

9 com.apple.finder 0x000000010de28173 0x10ddee000 + 237939

10 com.apple.finder 0x000000010de27f9c 0x10ddee000 + 237468

11 com.apple.finder 0x000000010de270ed 0x10ddee000 + 233709

13 com.apple.finder 0x000000010de27d80 0x10ddee000 + 236928

14 com.apple.finder 0x000000010de27d0e 0x10ddee000 + 236814

15 com.apple.finder 0x000000010de26cb9 0x10ddee000 + 232633

16 com.apple.finder 0x000000010de269f9 0x10ddee000 + 231929

17 com.apple.finder 0x000000010de26482 0x10ddee000 + 230530

18 com.apple.finder 0x000000010de1514e 0x10ddee000 + 160078

19 com.apple.finder 0x000000010de14d64 0x10ddee000 + 159076

20 com.apple.finder 0x000000010de14c85 0x10ddee000 + 158853

21 com.apple.finder 0x000000010de14c4c 0x10ddee000 + 158796

46 com.apple.finder 0x000000010ddf4730 0x10ddee000 + 26416

2 com.apple.finder 0x000000010de1806c 0x10ddee000 + 172140

3 com.apple.finder 0x000000010de1852c 0x10ddee000 + 173356

4 com.apple.finder 0x000000010de05d70 0x10ddee000 + 97648

5 com.apple.finder 0x000000010de183a1 0x10ddee000 + 172961

6 com.apple.finder 0x000000010de182ea 0x10ddee000 + 172778

7 com.apple.finder 0x000000010de18155 0x10ddee000 + 172373

8 com.apple.finder 0x000000010de05c03 0x10ddee000 + 97283

9 com.apple.finder 0x000000010de17f14 0x10ddee000 + 171796

10 com.apple.finder 0x000000010de17dc7 0x10ddee000 + 171463

11 com.apple.finder 0x000000010de10d32 0x10ddee000 + 142642

0x10ddee000 - 0x10e2bcff9 com.apple.finder (10.9.4 - 10.9.4) <1CEEB00A-B22D-34DA-ABDB-EC5419F308A4> /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder

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Answer 9

sagerg

Level 1

0 points

Oct 31, 2014 8:46 AM in response to tchrpwt

I just installed yosemite. This problem occurs on start-up. It's difficult to stop. Also when I click on the finder dock icon, the finder window no longer appears? Thank you for your help!

10/31/14 9:31:12.586 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.Finder[637]) Service exited due to signal: Segmentation fault: 11

Process: Finder [1020]

Path: /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder

Identifier: com.apple.finder

Build Info: Finder_FE-932000011000000~2

Responsible: Finder [1020]

__TEXT 000000010a587000-000000010aa76000 [ 5052K] r-x/rwx SM=COW /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder

36 com.apple.finder 0x000000010a58cf30 0x10a587000 + 24368

0x10a587000 - 0x10aa75ff7 com.apple.finder (10.10 - 10.10) <BFD3EFF6-C484-3EEF-A08A-9325C20432F9> /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder

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Answer 10

shaun146

Level 1

0 points

Nov 8, 2014 3:16 AM in response to Linc Davis

Dear Linc,

I'm experiencing the same problem. Just got a new macbook pro and upgraded to Yosemite. Prompt shows everytime I reboot, with the bouncing app icon. Everything seems to work fine once I click "Reopen" or "Don't Reopen" - doesn't seem to matter which I click. This is a copy from the entries in the system log -- thanks very much!

Shaun

8/11/14 7:02:18.030 pm garcon[270]: *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'Multiple instances are not supported.'

*** First throw call stack:

(

0 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff89b0c64c __exceptionPreprocess + 172

1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00007fff8ae3b6de objc_exception_throw + 43

2 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff89b0c42a +[NSException raise:format:arguments:] + 106

3 Foundation 0x00007fff881b9681 -[NSAssertionHandler handleFailureInFunction:file:lineNumber:description:] + 169

4 garcon 0x000000010cb27ce1 -[EFFinderExtension init] + 1121

5 libextension.dylib 0x00007fff8c548614 __105-[_NSExtensionContextVendor _beginRequestWithExtensionItems:listenerEndpoint:withContextUUID:completion:]_b lock_invoke + 834

6 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff8d546323 _dispatch_call_block_and_release + 12

7 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff8d541c13 _dispatch_client_callout + 8

8 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff8d54dcbf _dispatch_main_queue_callback_4CF + 861

9 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff89a5fc59 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_SERVICING_THE_MAIN_DISPATCH_QUEUE__ + 9

10 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff89a1c2ef __CFRunLoopRun + 2159

11 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff89a1b838 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 296

12 HIToolbox 0x00007fff8209543f RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 235

13 HIToolbox 0x00007fff820951ba ReceiveNextEventCommon + 431

14 HIToolbox 0x00007fff82094ffb _BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInModeWithFilter + 71

15 AppKit 0x00007fff8591e821 _DPSNextEvent + 964

16 AppKit 0x00007fff8591dfd0 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 194

17 AppKit 0x00007fff85911f73 -[NSApplication run] + 594

18 AppKit 0x00007fff858fd424 NSApplicationMain + 1832

19 libxpc.dylib 0x00007fff82040ef2 _xpc_objc_main + 793

20 libxpc.dylib 0x00007fff82042a9d _parse_sysctl_once + 0

21 Foundation 0x00007fff8834621a service_connection_handler + 0

22 PlugInKit 0x00007fff8c3d0676 -[PKService run] + 493

23 PlugInKit 0x00007fff8c3d0357 +[PKService main] + 55

24 PlugInKit 0x00007fff8c3d06b8 +[PKService _defaultRun:arguments:] + 17

25 libextension.dylib 0x00007fff8c5523f3 NSExtensionMain + 51

26 libdyld.dylib 0x00007fff856a95c9 start + 1

)

8/11/14 7:02:20.033 pm Finder[190]: plugin com.getdropbox.dropbox.garcon interrupted

8/11/14 7:02:20.036 pm Finder[190]: Unable to setup extension context - error: Couldn’t communicate with a helper application.

8/11/14 7:02:20.768 pm com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.Finder[190]) Service exited due to signal: Segmentation fault: 11

8/11/14 7:02:20.801 pm ReportCrash[289]: Saved crash report for Finder[190] version 10.10 (10.10) to /Users/[name]/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Finder_2014-11-08-190220_[name].crash

8/11/14 7:02:20.957 pm Finder[305]: assertion failed: 14A389: libxpc.dylib + 97940 [9437C02E-A07B-38C8-91CB-299FAA63083D]: 0x89

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Answer 11

IMRAN

Level 3

502 points

Nov 16, 2014 7:54 PM in response to Questionable Sanity

I also do not use Google Drive but am seeing the same Finder crashes... the only thing I notice different is that I installed a trial of ExpanDrive (to help mount things like OneDrive, Google Drive, etc. as external disks making them far more usable than the vendor's way of doing things). The trial expired so I will try removing that and see if my crashes go away. Sharing this in case you also tried some such Finder extension/help type utility.

Imran

PS My logs All Messages filtered for Finder show:

11/16/14 22:45:03.084 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.Finder) ThrottleInterval set to zero. You're not that important. Ignoring. <-- Amusing :-)

11/16/14 22:45:04.266 Finder[302]: lock contention for shared file list item 0x618000176680

11/16/14 22:45:04.266 Finder[302]: lock contention for shared file list item 0x60000017a4c0

11/16/14 22:45:04.267 Finder[302]: lock contention for shared file list item 0x60000017a400

11/16/14 22:45:04.267 Finder[302]: lock contention for shared file list item 0x618000174e80

11/16/14 22:45:04.268 Finder[302]: lock contention for shared file list item 0x618000176380

11/16/14 22:45:04.269 Finder[302]: lock contention for shared file list item 0x618000176740

11/16/14 22:45:04.270 Finder[302]: lock contention for shared file list item 0x618000176800

11/16/14 22:45:04.270 Finder[302]: lock contention for shared file list item 0x6180001768c0

11/16/14 22:45:06.208 Finder[302]: assertion failed: 14A389: libxpc.dylib + 97940 [9437C02E-A07B-38C8-91CB-299FAA63083D]: 0x89

11/16/14 22:45:09.968 garcon[420]: *** Assertion failure in -[EFFinderExtension init](), /Users/brolanger/src/client/integration/mac/garcon/garcon/EFFinderExtension.m:6 8

11/16/14 22:45:10.205 garcon[420]: (

0 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff93d5064c __exceptionPreprocess + 172

1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00007fff8f8fa6de objc_exception_throw + 43

2 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff93d5042a +[NSException raise:format:arguments:] + 106

3 Foundation 0x00007fff87edc681 -[NSAssertionHandler handleFailureInFunction:file:lineNumber:description:] + 169

4 garcon 0x00000001083cace1 -[EFFinderExtension init] + 1121

5 libextension.dylib 0x00007fff91ade614 __105-[_NSExtensionContextVendor _beginRequestWithExtensionItems:listenerEndpoint:withContextUUID:completion:]_b lock_invoke + 834

6 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff9735b323 _dispatch_call_block_and_release + 12

7 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff97356c13 _dispatch_client_callout + 8

8 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff97362cbf _dispatch_main_queue_callback_4CF + 861

9 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff93ca3c59 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_SERVICING_THE_MAIN_DISPATCH_QUEUE__ + 9

10 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff93c602ef __CFRunLoopRun + 2159

11 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff93c5f838 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 296

12 HIToolbox 0x00007fff8f17843f RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 235

13 HIToolbox 0x00007fff8f1781ba ReceiveNextEventCommon + 431

14 HIToolbox 0x00007fff8f177ffb _BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInModeWithFilter + 71

15 AppKit 0x00007fff90ed6821 _DPSNextEvent + 964

16 AppKit 0x00007fff90ed5fd0 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 194

17 AppKit 0x00007fff90ec9f73 -[NSApplication run] + 594

18 AppKit 0x00007fff90eb5424 NSApplicationMain + 1832

19 libxpc.dylib 0x00007fff9602fef2 _xpc_objc_main + 793

20 libxpc.dylib 0x00007fff96031a9d _parse_sysctl_once + 0

21 Foundation 0x00007fff8806921a service_connection_handler + 0

22 PlugInKit 0x00007fff8bf0e676 -[PKService run] + 493

23 PlugInKit 0x00007fff8bf0e357 +[PKService main] + 55

24 PlugInKit 0x00007fff8bf0e6b8 +[PKService _defaultRun:arguments:] + 17

25 libextension.dylib 0x00007fff91ae83f3 NSExtensionMain + 51

26 libdyld.dylib 0x00007fff924075c9 start + 1

)

11/16/14 22:45:10.206 garcon[420]: *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'Multiple instances are not supported.'