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Finder is crashing - help

Hi My Finder window is crashing several times a day.

Mostly when i try to "move item to trash"

Any ideas why? I hava a copy of the crash log but i dont know how to interpret.

Thanks Joe

IMAC 17, Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Feb 22, 2007 1:07 PM

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Posted on Feb 22, 2007 1:42 PM

Hello Joe.

This link may be helpful.

http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/finder.html
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Feb 22, 2007 6:16 PM in response to Allan Sampson

Well i completed all that. No disk errors. Repaired permissions and deep cleaned cache. I used Tiger Cache cleaner and then booted into Single user mode and used applejack auto mode to run all maintenance scripts.

Sadly, Finder crashes still fairly occasionally when i do things like "move to trash"

Will apple care help me out on this if i call them?
Its really annoying.

Feb 22, 2007 7:26 PM in response to Joe Chiarelli

FWIW,

Ive got the crash reporter logs, but but need some input

Here is a snippet of it

Host Name: joe-chiarellis-computer
Date/Time: 2007-02-22 21:11:34.828 -0500
OS Version: 10.4.8 (Build 8L2127)
Report Version: 4

Command: Finder
Path: /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder
Parent: WindowServer [88]

Version: 10.4.6 (10.4.6)
Build Version: 8
Project Name: Finder_FE
Source Version: 5292800

PID: 486
Thread: 0

Exception: EXC BADACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN PROTECTIONFAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000000

Thread 0 Crashed:
0 libobjc.A.dylib 0x90a554c7 objc_msgSend + 23
1 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x9301dbe9 TPluginCommand::~TPluginCommand [in-charge]() + 25
2 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x92ebe0c6 TPluginCommandList::~TPluginCommandList [in-charge]() + 66
3 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x92ebe0c6 TPluginCommandList::~TPluginCommandList [in-charge]() + 66

Could this

1 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x9301dbe9 TPluginCommand::~TPluginCommand [in-charge]() + 25

be a fault from Toast ? I installed toast 8 about the same time this started to occur.

From googling , could this be from the contextual plugin (right click) for TOAST IT?

For the heck of it, i am removing toast to see if this could be my fault.

any other ideas, appreciated.

Feb 23, 2007 5:47 AM in response to Joe Chiarelli

Ha Figured it out!

There a bug with stuffit 11.0.2 . The contextual menu item (rt click) was broken. Update stuffit with a patch.
ftp://ftp.smithmicro.com/stuffit/stuffitcm.plugin.zip

See here for more info
http://support.smithmicro.com/techsupport/kb.cfg/php.exe/enduser/stdadp.php?p_sid=L51FKYui&p_lva=&p_faqid=1738&p_created=1168045125&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPSZ wX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9NzQ1JnBfcGFnZT0x&pli=



Thanks for the other suggestions though!

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