FINDER FAILURE - Lost in a loop - Please help!
As I write this on my laptop, my G4 733 running OS 10.3.9 is repeatedly relaunching the finder.
It does not allow me to do anything; as soon as the Icons are done displaying, everything disappears and it starts all over agian (just as if I had told it to relaunch from the FORCE QUIT option.
It has now been doing this for about an hour. And this is AFTER I rebooted from the Install disks and reinstalled the system.
This looping begins once I have typed in my password in the login screen. It does not do it for other users on this computer, only for me.
I have run disk utility on all disks and repaired permisions on all and repaired all. No problems detected.
Any help at all would be tremendously appreciated. My G4 is just looping right along and I can't stop it.
G4 733 Mac OS X (10.3.9) This began as I was trying to play streaming video from C-SPAN
I have never heard of this and I am sure it is very annoying.
One thing that you might try is to delete the following preference file:
/Users/yourname/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
For the change to take effect, you need to stop and restart the Finder, but it sounds like that will happen automatically.
If that does not help, take a look in the console.log and system.log files and see if anything is printed out when Finder quits. These logs are accessible with the Console program in the Utilities menu.
EMAC G4 1.0 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.4)
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