Q: Finder suddenly quits, unable to soft restart and/or update
Hi,
I have a MacBook Pro Retina 2012, 2.6 i7, 16GbRAM, 1600MHz running El Capitan 10.11.1
The problem is that the finder app occasionally quits, and is impossible to restart. I notice predominantly due to the sudden disappearance of all icons on the desktop, and no menu bar. The dock still works, and I can use spotlight to start any app I want, but not finder. If I try to launch finder through spotlight, I get an error saying something like "The Finder application is no longer running".
I'm also unable to do any updates due to the fact that the machine is only hard-restartable, i.e. I can't shut it down or restart it from any menu - I have to do a long key press on the power button and then start the machine again. The update software asks me to do restarts to complete updates, but nothing happens when I do the hard restart.
I've also tried to find anything about this in the logs as suggested in other posts, but after entering "finder" into the filter-box, nothing remains in the list.
Looking forward to fix this problem, and not having to restart manually 10 times a day....
MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), OS X El Capitan (10.11.1)
Posted on Jun 8, 2016 1:06 PM
