"Get Info" stopped working for external drives

MacPro Early 2008
OS X 10.9.2
4 x Internal HD
4 x External HD
For some weird reason my external disks have suddenly stopped responding to ‘Get Info’. The four internal HD’s display Info fine but the four external disks do not. They did until a few days ago. There has been no physical change to my machine in that time. There has been no update or change to software in that time.
The problem occurs regardless of whether I Ctrl Click and use the context menu, whether I use the Info button on the finder menu bar or whether I use Cmd I keyboard shortcut.
The four external disks display properly in finder and all other functions seems fine.
There is no ‘hang’, no spinning beach ball, just quite simply nothing happens.
All four disks pass “Verify”.
I have checked and repaired permissions on the system disk.
If I sign in as guest the problem disappears - it would seem therefore to lie in my configuration.
I have tried the following:
Re-launch finder using Alt-Cmd-Esc.
Deleted Finder’s plist and restarted to create default settings.
Removed all items from Users & Accounts > Login Items.
Backed up and removed all files from User/Library/LaunchAgents
Backed up and removed all files from /Library/LaunchAgents
Backed up and removed all files from /Library/LaunchDaemons
Checked /Library/StartupItems which is empty.
All to no avail …………..
I have not touched any launch or startup directories from /System/Library/
Any suggestions where else I might look?
David Macdonald

No new software has been installed or updated in the immediate time frame of the problem appearing. Except one Apple OS X auto update.
The problem persists in Safe Mode. I first booted into safe mode with just keyboard and mouse connected and then tried adding in the drives one by one. Each one shows the same symptoms.
I then tried plugging in other external drives - another HD and a pendrive. They work fine. The problem seems confined to just the four drives that are permanently connected.
I then backed up one of the drives and erased and re-formatted it. Problem solved works fine. Remaining three same old problem no "Get Info".
So to sum up.
The problem exists in even safe mode for my four permanently connected drives.
The problem does not exist for any other external drives.
The problem is cured by re-formatting the drive.
From this I would supect that something has zapped the integrity of the drives themselves .... except ..... the problem does not exist when logged in as guest.
So, unless anyone can draw some clever conclusions from the above, it would seem to me I have three options:
1) Back up my external HD's and re-format them then restore from backup. See if the problem returns later and if I can identify what triggered it. Although it involves several terrabytes of backup and restore it can at least go on in the background and overnight and needn't take up too much of my time and I don't lose my machine.
2) Start a fresh user acount in which the problem does not occur and restore my system from time machine. The risk of course is that this may re-install the problem. Advantage is once again this can go on unattended but I lose my machine for half a day.
3) Start a fesh user account and re-install my system app by app and see if and where the problem returns. This seems like less work and more reliable than unistalling and re-installing and will start me off with a relatively clean new system. But it's a LOT of time and work.
Hmmmmmm .......

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