I think Finder has been corrupted.
I can't remember exactly when it started, at first, it was spotlight:
While spotlight from the menubar seemed to work, using the find feature would cause it to crash.
And then, when I used the "Get Info" option when right clicking on files, it work fine untill I closed it, and then Finder crashed.
I lived with this for a while, and I hoped the new Mac OS X update that was going to come out some time might fix it.
I was wrong.
But recently, only a week or so ago, Finder lost it's icon.
I quickly checked in the CoreServices folder to check if it was just a Dock problem, it wasn't, Finder had no icon, but when checking in the package, the icon was still there.
Here's a picture to give you can idea... http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/3272/picture6wju.png
I knew that is was definitely getting serious, Finder seemed to be getting eaten away by something.
And today, I just noticed that I couldn't empty the trash, not only that, I couldn't even open it!
So for now, I'm emptying the trash using other means...
Also, in "About Finder", there is no version number, it's just "Finder version".
Now, how would I go about fixing this?
Finder itself seems to be broken, and I don't know where my Mac OS X discs have gone.
Is there any way I could somehow get somebody else to send me a Finder application that isn't broken?
Thanks in advance for any ideas.
Do you think if I got someone else with Mac OS X 10.5.7 to send me an uncorrupted version of Finder and I replaced it, it would work?
Highly unlikely. There are literally thousands of files that work together in ways that are set up with preferences during installation. Permissions are only a piece of the puzzle. You may not even have your system files in sync due to updating corrupt files. If you've truly got a scrambled system you need to get a Leopard Install DVD, re-install Leopard using Archive and Install, update to OS 10.5.7, repair permissions and get by butcher jobs on your OS.
Never update a broken system. Fix it first. Updates can fix some bugs, and add improvements to a good working system. Updating corruption means updated problems.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1339
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