Finder freezes when mounting dmg

After the recent system update, Finder now freezes whenever I try to mount a dmg. In Console, the log for hdiejectd just says 'running', and I can no longer do anything with Finder, windows no longer refresh if I move them around the screen. If I relaunch Finder via Terminal, then the mounted disk image shows up, and Finder becomes functional again. But this is annoying to have to do every time! Is there a better fix out there please?

Also, had to relaunch Finder in Terminal, because if I tried to relaunch in GUI when it's frozen, I get a 'the application finder can't be opened (-10810)' error. gah!

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Hi Phil, and a warm welcome to the forums!
One thing to check...
In finder, select Go menu>Go to Folder, and go to "/volumes".
Volumes is where an alias to your hard drive ("/" at boot) is placed at startup, and where all the "mount points" for auxiliary drives are created for you to access them. This folder is normally hidden from view.
Drives with an extra 1 on the end have a side-effect of mounting a drive with the same name as the system already think exists. Try trashing the duplicates with a 1, and reboot.
You may also have to trash this file & reboot...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist
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Mount that Share once, then once the Globe Icon shows up on the Desktop, drag that Globe Icon to the right side of the Dock between Applications & Trash. You now have a Dynamic Mount, a quick click on the Icon in the Dock will connect you.
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10.9.2 Finder Freezes when resizing and changing directories

I just updated to 10.9.2 to find that when the Finder is open, and I resize the Finder, for instance to stack two windows side by side ... the Finder freezes when I simply drag the corner of the window around.
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Finder freeze when opening folders of my Western Digital external hard disks

I'm facing a big issue. I'm runnin' Mac Os Lion, I realized a clean install a few days ago. Everything is going fine, but every time I plug an external hard disk on my MBP, I can see the disk appearing on my desktop or in the finder, and when I open it, the finder freezes, I have to reboot manually, or wait to relaunch the finder. My disks are in HFS format, used to work great on Snow Leopard no longer than a week ago... What is weird is that my time machine (external hard disk usb) works fine... Moreover, I can see the disks in the Disk Utility, I can't click on "verify permissions" but on "verify disk" and it says that the disks are fine... Any idea ?
PS : I could have erase everything on them and reformat, but I need the files inside...
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Here's a suggestion from BDAqua:
In finder, select Go menu>Go to Folder, and go to "/volumes".
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Finder freezes when trying to move files to external hard drive

Whenever I try to move files from internal hard drive to my external finder freezes it. I have over 5 TBs of free space on my external, so I know it's not a space issue. This happens no matter the size of the file. It starts the copy and then will freeze before it finishes. If I try to force quit and select relaunch it acts like it is relaunching but my icons never re-appear and the command bar at the top never returns. So I end up having to hard boot.
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Finder Freezes when I try to get file info

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Occasionally finder will freeze and become unresponsive when I try to check a file's info. I control+click on the file and the drop down menu appears normally, but when I click "Get Info" the Finder freezes; I get the spinning colour wheel of death and Finder won't respond. Forcing Finder to re-launch works fine and I haven't had to restart the computer yet, but I want to nip this problem in the bud right now before it gets any worse.
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Buy DISK WARRIOR Software is only one is best to fix your HD problem! You can download in Site: www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/
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My MacBook Pro became unresponsive, when I booted, it gave a question mark on the white screen instead of starting Snow Leopard. Still don't know why, but that isn't really important now.
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To install the component in Lion, please download MPEG Streamclip 1.9.3b7 beta above; inside the disk image you will find the Utility MPEG2 Component Lion: use it to install the MPEG-2 Playback Component in Lion. The original installer's disk image (QuickTimeMPEG2.dmg) is required.
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Mac's can't use USB 3 so it's dropping to USB 2
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